Honesty

(noun)

A facet of moral character that connotes positive and virtuous attributes such as integrity, truthfulness, and straightforwardness, along with the absence of lying, cheating, or theft.

Related Terms

Examples of Honesty in the following topics:

  • Honesty in Leadership: Kouzes and Posner

    • Kouzes and Posner identify five behaviors of effective leadership, with honesty essential to each.
    • Honesty refers to different aspects of moral character.
    • Honesty also implies the absence of lying, cheating, or theft.
    • Honesty also brings a degree of transparency to a leader's interaction with others.
    • The need for honesty is woven throughout the primary activities of effective leaders.

  • Rules to Follow When Speaking

    • Effective speakers engage in ethical goals, fully prepare their speeches, practice honesty and avoid abusive language.
    • These rules include ethical goals, full preparation, honesty, and non-abusive language.
    • Honesty is an extension of the ethical goals of your speech.
    • Effective speakers engage in ethical goals, fully prepare their speeches and materials, practice honesty, and don't use non-abusive language when speaking.

  • Other Important Trait Theories

    • An example of a central trait would be honesty.
    • The six factors are generally named Honesty-Humility (H), Emotionality (E), Extroversion (X), Agreeableness (A), Conscientiousness (C), and Openness to Experience (O).

  • Trust: the foundation for a successful relationship

    • Honesty: Incorporates truthfulness, sincerity, and dependability.
    • However, illustrating honesty has many other facets as well.
    • One way to combat this is to create a culture that values and encourages honesty.

  • The Importance of Customers

    • Similarly, every employee wants something from the business he or she serves (wages, training, respect) and every business wants something back from its employees (skill, labour, loyalty, honesty).

  • The rules of cooperative business networking

    • In other words, the same elements that create and foster human relationships (honesty, communication, straightforwardness, integrity, wisdom, honour, etc.) appear to be no different from those needed to maintain successful business relationships.

  • The Candidates

    • For example, candidates often air advertisements that question the honesty of their opponents while emphasizing their own fortitude and work ethic.

  • Leadership Traits

    • Some of the inherent leadership traits in Zaccaro's model include extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, openness, neuroticism, honesty/integrity, charisma, intelligence, creativity, achievement motivation, need for power, oral/written communication, interpersonal skills, general problem-solving, decision making, technical knowledge, and management skills.

  • Joint Ventures

    • Ultimately, short term and long term successes are both important.To achieve this success, honesty, integrity and communication within the joint venture are necessary.

  • Looking Beyond the Traditional References

    • Honesty.
    • Honesty and integrity is a duty of each author and person, expert-reviewer and member of journal editorial boards.