Certification / International Conference Wrapup

A Report On:
Promoting Integrity in the Workplace

An International Conference held in San Diego, March 5-6, 2010

Conference themes:

Promoting Integrity in the Workplace

• Integrity as a concept has to do with perceived consistency of principles, beliefs, values, attitudes, behaviors, methods, expectations and outcomes.
• SYMLOG measures these multiple-level constructs while focusing on individual, team, organizational, and societal development.
• Integration, in the presence of polarizing forces, is difficult to achieve and sustain. (Hence the need for systematic ongoing multiple-level feedback to promote integrity in the workplace.)

SYMLOG, Interaction, and Integrity

• Interaction gives rise to, and is influenced by, a dynamic field of forces that have a tendency to unify and polarize images in the field.
• Values exist in the mind as a network of competing priorities that have a force and direction (vectors) in the SYMLOG evaluative space.
• The network of priorities (values) may be more or less unified (integrated) or polarized (disintegrated) at any period in time.
• SYMLOG posits a field theory of polarization and unification and provides a compact, reliable, and valid method for measuring integrity.

SYMLOG, Integrity, and Coherence

• Coherence: A property holding for two or more fields when each individual field is in phase with every other one.
• When fields are in phase with other fields it can be said that the system is demonstrating coherence and integrity.
• The purpose of development is to bring about increased coherence, integrity, and unification within the system of interacting fields as measured by SYMLOG.

Conference Agenda (Click on link to see abstract/presentation in PDF format)

(please note: some of the presentations are very large and may take some time to download)

Bob Koenigs, "Promoting Integrity in the Workplace" - Introduction and conference theme
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Larry Newton, "Up, down, and sideways use of SYMLOG in a long-term OD initiative"
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Robert J. Harig, CBOCS, Inc., "CBOCS SYMLOG: Implications for Improving Team Performance – History of CBOCS and the increasing importance of optimizing team performance"
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Sakae Sugai, "Implications from the study of cross-cultural leadership interaction between British locally-hired employees and Japanese expatriates"
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Brian Brittain and Bob Koenigs, "Measuring Requisite Organization Theory"
Introduction  /  The Study

Sharon Hare, "Integrity & interaction: A tribute to Paul Hare"
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Luther Johnson, "Here's to Possibilities"
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Geoff Ronaldson, "An Integrated Approach to Using SYMLOG at the Levels of Organization, Team and Leadership to Improve Effectiveness: A case study from the mining industry in South Africa"
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Rob Williams, "The Unbearable Likeness of Leadership in Higher Education: A comparison of leadership values and competencies based upon SYMLOG and VOICES"
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Joseph Powers, "Teamwork and Leadership Development in a Psychiatric Hospital"
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George Whaley, David Ford, and Keith Perry, "Exploring Respondents' Understanding of Green Management and Sustainability Concepts: A SYMLOG Perspective"
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Bob Koenigs with comments from Jim Jewell – "In search of an Effectiveness Norm for Law Enforcement"
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Margaret Cowen, "Aligning the reward structure in teams with most effective desired future: A case study in a high tech environment" – context, discussion, recommendations
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