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Ethics Glossary

Integrity

Latin meaning is ‘intact’.  Imagine the responsibility engineers have to ensure that bridges and buildings have structural integrity (e.g., anticipating the fatigue or fracture of materials, the initiation/growth of cracks in the materials, the limits for handling unexpected or overloading stress).  By analogy, integrity – whether individual, team, or organization – has to do with remaining centered, integrated, sound when stressed by powerful centrifugal force/s.