To increase organizational Integrity, you can create or improve your organizational mission or values statement, engaging everyone in the process to ensure that it’s more than just some platitude hanging on the wall. You can also work on creating a culture of making and keeping commitments within the organization. This is particularly important for leaders, and it’s especially important in the small things. I’ve known of situations where leaders did not take seemingly small commitments seriously, and it spread to the extent that before long, everyone was treating internal commitments lightly.
This is a big problem with our organization. We don't take our internal commitments seriously. Meetings get pushed back or cancelled with alarming frequency, and we don't keep our commitments to each other. I contribute to this when I over commit myself and when I don't call out others on their commitments.
Part of the problem might be that we are overcommiting ourselves, or that we are too optimistic about our time constraints. It could also simply be a matter of poor time management because we aren't using the tools at our disposal correctly.
