ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the merit of virtue ethics as one of these positive approaches. The chapter first shows how the concepts of integrity, the grey area and the dilemma can lead to overly negative and oversimplified, black-and-white distinctions. Today, 'integrity' has come to be used in a very broad field, stretching from anti-corruption efforts to professional and personal ethics. In professional ethics, a much-used concept is the 'grey area'. Another popular concept in thinking about integrity is the 'dilemma'. A virtue ethics approach to integrity and ethics management takes it as a starting point that organizations are 'first of all communities, social groups with shared purposes'. The concepts of integrity, the grey area and the dilemma harbour a dualistic framing within them, tempting people to oversimplify moral issues. This chapter have analysed three popular integrity concepts: integrity, the dilemma and the grey area and concludes that that these concepts bring about a strong tendency towards dualistic moral reasoning.
