Integrity vs. Accountability — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Integrity and Accountability
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Integrity
Integrity is the practice of being honest and showing a consistent and uncompromising adherence to strong moral and ethical principles and values. In ethics, integrity is regarded as the honesty and truthfulness or accuracy of one's actions.
Accountability
(military) The obligation imposed by law or regulation on an officer or other person for keeping accurate record of property, documents, or funds. The person having this obligation may or may not have actual possession of the property, documents, or funds. Accountability is concerned primarily with records, while responsibility is concerned primarily with custody, care, and safekeeping.
Integrity
Steadfast adherence to a strict moral or ethical code
A leader of great integrity.
Accountability
Accountability, in terms of ethics and governance, is equated with answerability, blameworthiness, liability, and the expectation of account-giving. As in an aspect of governance, it has been central to discussions related to problems in the public sector, nonprofit and private (corporate) and individual contexts.
Integrity
The state of being unimpaired; soundness
The building's integrity remained intact following the mild earthquake.
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Accountability
The fact or condition of being accountable; responsibility
Lack of accountability has corroded public respect for business and political leaders
Integrity
The quality or condition of being whole or undivided; completeness
Replaced a lost book to restore the integrity of his collection.
Accountability
Expected or required to account for one's actions; answerable.
Integrity
Steadfast adherence to a strict moral or ethical code.
Accountability
Capable of being explained
An accountable phenomenon.
Integrity
The state of being wholesome; unimpaired
Accountability
The state of being accountable; liability to be called on to render an account or give an explanation; liability to be held responsible or answerable for something.
Integrity
The quality or condition of being complete; pure
Accountability
An open determination of one's responsibility for something and imposition of consequences.
Integrity
(cryptography) With regards to data encryption, ensuring that information is not altered by unauthorized persons in a way that is not detectable by authorized users.
Accountability
Good-faith acceptance of one's responsibility for something and of its consequences.
Integrity
(aviation) The ability of systems to provide timely warnings to users when they should not be used for navigation.
Accountability
The state of being accountable; liability to be called on to render an account; the obligation to bear the consequences for failure to perform as expected; accountableness.
Integrity
Trustworthiness; keeping your word.
Accountability
Responsibility to someone or for some activity
Integrity
The state or quality of being entire or complete; wholeness; entireness; unbroken state; as, the integrity of an empire or territory.
Integrity
Moral soundness; honesty; freedom from corrupting influence or motive; - used especially with reference to the fulfillment of contracts, the discharge of agencies, trusts, and the like; uprightness; rectitude.
The moral grandeur of independent integrity is the sublimest thing in nature.
Their sober zeal, integrity, and worth.
Integrity
Unimpaired, unadulterated, or genuine state; entire correspondence with an original condition; purity.
Language continued long in its purity and integrity.
Integrity
An unreduced or unbroken completeness or totality
Integrity
Moral soundness
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