By Leslie Pratch The Findings are divided into three parts. The first (below) describes the educational, intellectual, and career histories. The second looks at development, which has two major subsections, family of origin and current family setting. The third examines personality structure and dynamics. Intelligence, Work Skills, and Experience The high integrity executives tended to [...]
By Leslie Pratch Here I report the behavioral patterns that qualified an executive for selection into the high or low integrity groups. I emphasize that although I discussed integrity in conceptual terms, I also defined it in operational terms and specified levels of integrity exhibited through action. The executives were selected on the basis of [...]
By Leslie Pratch Data for this study were drawn from psychological assessments I conducted between 1998 and 2006 on 200 executives in Corporate America. Each assessment lasted approximately four hours with the executive and followed the clinical assessment strategy and data collection techniques described elsewhere.[i] The circumstances of the assessments varied. Two of the executives [...]
By Leslie Pratch An operational definition of integrity in business has two components: transparency, accepting the risk of public exposure, which makes sense immediately and on a phenomenological level; and commitment, the ability to stick to a vision or values, no matter what others are saying. A person of integrity maintains a consistency of standards [...]
By Leslie Pratch The responsibility of the chief executive officer of a company is to maximize shareholder wealth. The CEO is uniquely responsible for satisfying a multiplicity of conflicting interests: the shareholders (and they may have conflicting interests among themselves), the employees (same comment), the customers, and the different divisions of the corporation viewed as [...]
By Leslie Pratch This series has two purposes. The first is to flesh out integrity (and self esteem) as the fourth dimension of the active coping style. (The other three dimensions are integrative capacity; optimal psychological autonomy; and instrumental coping.) The second is to develop propositions for research into the assessment and significance of integrity [...]
By Leslie Pratch Conceptual Definitions of Integrity I interviewed executives (operating executives, executives in venture capital and private equity firms, and investment banks), a business reporter, and an attorney specializing in private equity transactions to learn how each of them would define integrity in business. Below I classify their definitions in terms of where each [...]