Integrity In A Cultural Context
Week 2 Discussion Question
Academic Integrity in a Cultural Context
“Integrity is the essence of everything successful” (Buckminster Fuller 2014)
Corruption can be considered a major threat to social development, as well as to sustainability. It can spread like an epidemic, and when it does, it can cause the destruction of society in all fields, leaving communities without moral principle, shriveling up wheels of development and making society suffer.
To counter this, members of public and private sectors should be able to face the risks of corruption head on, by applying overall principles based on integrity and honesty.
Universities are respected institutes of socialization, laying foundations for major social constructions. With this comes responsibility for any output they produce, which should reflect positively on social renaissance. As such, it is imperative to educate all …show more content…
Behaving like this, teachers could invoke proper respect for their ethics, scientific integrity and honesty, representing the university with good practice and in a honorable manner.
Raising students in honesty and (scientific) integrity will contribute positively to protection and promotion of other people’s rights and will enable a sense of responsibility towards that.
At SABIC, we give great importance to integrity in all business, we consider a culture of responsibility which must work out throughout the whole. SABIC therefore has developed a Code of Ethics, which emphasizes on its commitment to integrity (SABIC 2014). This code provides guidelines for employee behavior, and confirms the support for core values, such as commitment to employees, standards for doing business, and relationships with involved stakeholders. SABIC embraces the laws of morality, every day, with every business dealing in any part of the
Academic Integrity in a Cultural Context
“Integrity is the essence of everything successful” (Buckminster Fuller 2014)
Corruption can be considered a major threat to social development, as well as to sustainability. It can spread like an epidemic, and when it does, it can cause the destruction of society in all fields, leaving communities without moral principle, shriveling up wheels of development and making society suffer.
To counter this, members of public and private sectors should be able to face the risks of corruption head on, by applying overall principles based on integrity and honesty.
Universities are respected institutes of socialization, laying foundations for major social constructions. With this comes responsibility for any output they produce, which should reflect positively on social renaissance. As such, it is imperative to educate all …show more content…
Behaving like this, teachers could invoke proper respect for their ethics, scientific integrity and honesty, representing the university with good practice and in a honorable manner.
Raising students in honesty and (scientific) integrity will contribute positively to protection and promotion of other people’s rights and will enable a sense of responsibility towards that.
At SABIC, we give great importance to integrity in all business, we consider a culture of responsibility which must work out throughout the whole. SABIC therefore has developed a Code of Ethics, which emphasizes on its commitment to integrity (SABIC 2014). This code provides guidelines for employee behavior, and confirms the support for core values, such as commitment to employees, standards for doing business, and relationships with involved stakeholders. SABIC embraces the laws of morality, every day, with every business dealing in any part of the