ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts covered in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book provides a brief sketch of the variety of ways integrity has been conceptualized and analyzes in the Management and Business Ethics literature. It presents an eminently well-argued, positive model of integrity, which clearly differentiates integrity from morality and ethics. The book also develops an integrity-based approach for managing and alleviating time theft, which can be committed not only by employees. It also introduces a multilevel conceptual model that describes how leadership integrity, combined with ethical idiosyncratic credit, may originate at the highest levels of management and cascade down the firm, eventually contributing to greater overall profitability. The book discusses the fore the importance of family values and the role they play in achieving integrity in family business. It presents the findings of the author's qualitative interview study in the Australian banking industry, illuminating the meaning of integrity from an executive's perspective.
