NATIONAL INTEGRITY CONVENTION

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NATIONAL INTEGRITY CONVENTION
STRENGTHENING PUBLIC SERVICE INSTITUTIONS WITH
INTEGRITY THROUGH HUMAN VALUES
by AZIUDDIN AHMAD, PhD Professor THE GRADUATE
SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITI PUTRA MALAYSIA 7
November 2008
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DISCUSSION POINTS

• INTEGRITY REVISITED
• WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE HUMAN?
• ISLAM, IMAN IHSAN
• CORPORATE INTEGRITY vs. HUMAN INTEGRITY
• BENCHMARKING INTEGRITY

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INTEGRITY REVISITED

• Words emanate meaning
• Etymology Integrity from Latin integritas
  integer, whole number, being whole being one AL
  TAWHID
• Integrity is a state/conditioning, but not an
  end-state
• The actuator/actualizer
• Originally only be applied to human beings

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WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE HUMAN?

• Natural vs. Artificial/Legal person
• The spiritual is what makes human, human
  (Salleh Ahmad, 2008 Stapp, 2008)
• Physical is for locomotion
• Humans drive is towards inspiration, meaning
• purpose
• Ad Dhariyat Quran (5156)

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ISLAM, IMAN IHSAN

• IHSAN Virtue, Perfection, Excellence
• Third dimension of Islam
• Life is series of dilemmas
• Ihsan is Governance
• Story of Muadh ibn Jabal

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CORPORATE INTEGRITY vs. HUMAN INTEGRITY
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BENCHMARKING INTEGRITY

• What is legal MAY NOT be moral
• What is moral is legal
• INTEGRITY IS IT LAW OR BEYOND LAW?
• Conformance or Beyond Conformance?
• Rising beyond the self Rectification of
  character
• getting rid of bad attributes (Murata
  Chittick, 1994)

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COMPLIANCE- VALUES-BASED

• CB approach is divorced from values and ethics
  i.e. THE SPIRIT
• CB system, what is not prohibited is allowed.
  Attention is NOT on doing what is right but on
  NOT DOING what is wrong, NOT on doing ones best
  but on NOT DOING ones worst
• VB encourages NOT to do ethical minimum but to
  DO ethical maximum
• Rules DO NOT inspire. Values DO

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