Leadership Integrity Overview
In an effort to increase productivity in a struggling economy, companies need to look at how much counter-productivity is costing their company:
- Employee theft and fraud cost the average business 1-2% of its sales
- Substance abuse costs U.S. companies $200 billion in lost productivity
- Workplace violence costs U.S. companies $4 to $6 billion per year
And who sets the tone for the organization to discourage this type of behavior? The organization's leaders! Therefore, organizations need to hire leaders who not only exhibit integrity but also hold the rest of the organization accountable for avoiding counter-productive behavior.
Research shows that when leaders abuse their power, this results in employee stress, decreased job satisfaction, and turnover. When experiencing abusive leadership employees often retaliate against the organization through theft and lost productivity.
So how do you identify leaders with integrity? In a typical selection process, determining one's integrity can be difficult and inaccurate. BHI sought to help its clients by developing such a measure to help with this difficult process.
BHI dedicated research efforts to create and validate an assessment that measures a leader's propensity to exhibit integrity. This research was based on an empirical model of leadership counter-productivity that has been supported internationally.
The following research summary provides results of the study, methodology in creating the new assessment, and ways you can incorporate BHI's new Leadership Integrity™ scale in your current BHI assessment process.
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