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iQuestions Faculty, Pat Gelsinger 
 
 
Question: 
 
How important are integrity and ethics in the workplace? 
 
Answer: 
 
In today’s workplace, in an era of Sarbanes-Oxley and Enron and 
WorldCom, you can’t overstate how important ethics are.  
 
As we have seen in so many of these situations, that highfliers and 
people that are revered and almost viewed as godlike figures, their 
collapse is an enormous failure to their family, to them as individuals. 
And what seemed like one day was a person that couldn’t be matched, 
the very next day you see them going to jail or being embarrassed 
beyond their wildest imaginations. 
 
So, ethics is the foundation for who we are and how the workplace 
really operates. Violating ethics in the workplace may make you feel 
good today, may even get you that next promotion better, but you are 
setting yourself up for long-term disaster.  
 
Everything you do in the workplace, in your personal life must be 
accompanied by unquestioning ethics and integrity. They are simply 
the foundation of who you need to be.  
 
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