Both terms, honesty and integrity are to be held in high regards being absolutely essential for success in all the areas of life including profession. Having honesty and integrity not only creates value in every communication, but it also leads to build the foundation of trust and confidence. Honesty does not just imply refusal to lie, but it does to live life with fairness and straightforwardness, whereas, integrity implies the quality of possessing and steadfastly adhering to high moral principles.

Etymologically the word Integrity has come from the Latin adjective word, integer, meaning entire, whole or complete. Integrity means following moral convictions and doing right things in all circumstances. It plays a vital role in the tenure of one’s employment and it has a lot to do in return for it. Let’s discuss as to how having honesty and integrity is important in the workplace.

Before we go any further, let’s discuss about the difference between the terms honesty and integrity. Honesty is the quality, condition, or characteristic of being fair, truthful and morally upright, while integrity is the quality of possessing and steadfastly adhering to high moral principles or professional standards. It also means complete or undivided.

A person can have honesty without integrity, but he or she cannot have integrity without honesty, so honesty is the basis for maintaining integrity of conduct, as integrity means having moral character and living by possessing and steadfastly adhering to high moral principles.

It must be noted that the attainment of total organizational development is owing to the total organizational competencies and the total organizational competence is achieved if the employees serve the organization having honesty and integrity while working effectively and efficiently. The quality of being honest involves the employees to think in the right manner and behave with integrity. It thus advocates, being loyal to the owners, being punctual to the company, adhering to the rules and regulations of the company, maintaining the timings of the company and producing the results that are expected of.

Maintaining honesty and Integrity of conduct is a proven virtue that benefits you in many ways. It’s nothing but the quality of having honesty and integrity that leads to sincerity gaining trust and reliability from others; enabling you to make commitments and put the efforts with consistency, which, all in all, will lead you to improve the level of competence that in turn results in gaining respect and professional development and success.

An employee who performs his duties maintaining honesty and integrity is to be recognized as one of the best employees, while it leads him to success and to reap better results in lieu of this quality. Such a quality is this that is always preferred and looked for in the employees, as it can lead to the attainment of those results that are wanted or intended. It is implied that an honest employee is the leading exponent of organizational goals and objectives and he can put his earnest efforts accordingly to the total organizational competencies, effectiveness and efficiencies.

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