Integrity management systems
Jeroen Maesschalck, Alain Hoekstra, André van Montfort
Abstract
Recent years have seen various attempts at conceptualising integrity management within organisations. This chapter focuses on those integrity management models that take a systems approach. This emphasises interconnectedness and requisite variety, as well as the processual and iterative nature of integrity management and the importance of grassroots participation. The chapter discusses five examples of integrity management models that, at least to some extent, exhibit these four characteristics: Organisational Integrity System, Integrity Management Framework, Integrity Infrastructure, Pluralistic Ethics Management Framework, and the Ethics Programme model. The chapter concludes that these models provide a useful basis for practice and research, but it also argues for more in-depth qualitative and quantitative research. Such research would be the basis for more context-sensitive and parsimonious models, which would also take the timing of the introduction of interventions into consideration and would pay more attention to the unintended consequences of ethics management.