Individual Leadership Integrity Capacity Award Criteria

The criteria for this award are derived directly from the four dimensions of business integrity capacity theory: moral process, judgment, development and system components. For information on integrity capacity and leadership accountability for moral progress in business, download Article 1 and Article 2.  Individual award winners should meet many (though not necessarily all) of the following leadership criteria:

1. Demonstrated Personal and/or Professional Process Integrity Capacity
   The recipient should be an individual who is a personal and/or professional role model for exemplary business moral conduct. The individual has demonstrated a sustained pattern of moral awareness, deliberation, character and conduct in practice that has built a reputation for integrity which inspires others to lead exemplary moral lives in business.
    
2. Demonstrated Personal and/or Professional Judgment Integrity Capacity
   The recipient should be an individual who has demonstrated courageous and wise personal and/or professional judgment in inclusively balancing moral results, rules, character and context in the formulation and implementation of policies and best practices when dealing with conflicting stakeholder values and priorities.
    
3. Demonstrated Personal and/or Professional Developmental Integrity Capacity
   The recipient should be an individual who has personally and/or professionally developed beyond a minimum external legal/regulatory mindset to a more morally mature commitment to principled integrity and demonstrated that commitment in individual and collective work performance.
    
4. Demonstrated Personal and/or Professional System Integrity Capacity
   The recipient should be an individual who has personally and/or professionally demonstrated the capacity to design, champion and/or institutionalize an organizational compliance and ethics system and exert extra-organizational influence to enact a supportive context for continually improving business moral performance.

Nomination Process Guidelines

A self-nomination and nominations from third parties should address the award criteria with appropriate documentation on or before March 1 of the award year. All nomination materials should be forwarded to the following address:

Dr. Joseph A. Petrick
Director, Institute for Business Integrity
Integrity Capacity Awards Committee
Raj Soin College of Business
Wright State University
3640 Colonel Glenn Highway
Dayton, Ohio 45435