Behavioral Integrity: The Perceived Alignment Between Managers' Words and Deeds as a Research Focus

By Tony Simoms. Organ. Sci., 2002

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Subfields: Information Systems and Management, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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At What Level (and in Whom) We Trust (2012, background): “Leaders’ behavioral integrity, which refers to word–deed consistency or alignment and includes keeping promises and enacting espoused values, has been hypothesized to be an important antecedent of trust in leaders (Palanski & Yammarino, 2009; Simons, 2002).”
Authentic Leadership: Development and Validation of a Theory-Based Measure† (2008, background): “Corporate boards are being held more accountable (Aguilera, 2005); executives who fail to display consistency between their words and deeds can expect to lose the trust of followers (Simons, 2002).”
Ethical leadership at work questionnaire (ELW): Development and validation of a multidimensional measure (2011, positive): “Leaders who keep promises and behave consistently can be trusted or believed because they work or behave as expected (Simons, 2002).”
Understanding user experiences of online travel review websites for hotel booking behaviours: an investigation of a dual motivation theory (2018, background): “In an online environment, source credibility refers to the extent to which one recognises that the information is believable, true, or factual (Simoms, 2002) and the extent to which users have unlimited freedom to publish and express their feelings towards certain products or services without disclo”
The Authentic Enterprise: Another Buzz Word, or a True Driver of Quality Relationships? (2012, background): “Simons (2002) proposed a conceptual model of antecedents and consequences of behavioral integrity, i.e., the perceived fit between an actor’s words and deeds.”
Revisiting the Foundations of Organizational Distrust (2017, positive): “Following this logic, one distrust study found that employees could interpret their perception of managers’ poor word-deed alignment as indicating that managers distrust them, and responded to the managers by reciprocating their own distrust (Simons, 2002).”
How Leader Alignment of Words and Deeds Affects Followers: A Meta-analysis of Behavioral Integrity Research (2015, background): “BI is a trait assessment that directly points to the likelihood of future reliability (Simons 2002), and is thus conceptually closer than the other constructs to a trust judgment, which is defined and measured as willingness to accept future vulnerability.”
Strategic Governance: how to assess board effectiveness in guiding strategy execution (2006, background): “By continuously monitoring whether managers comply with agreed upon strategies or diverge from them, the board guarantees its share- and stakeholders that the corporation really “walks like it talks” (McGregor, 1967; Weick, 1995) or “aligns words and deeds” ( Simons, 1999, 2002a, 2002b ).”
Top management credibility and employee cynicism: A comprehensive model (2009, background): “The credibility of business executives always seems to be in question, just as cynical employees appear to be a perpetual managerial challenge (Kanter & Mirvis, 1989; Kouzes & Posner, 2003; Simons, 2002).”