DFTikum
Points of corruption
The concept contains the 12 most common and most serious points of corruption in the view of work and value that appear in the everyday life of organisations.
The concept in brief
We speak of corruption when, in an organisation, employees’ words, thoughts and actions become separated from one another.
An employee who does not say what they think, or does not do what they say, is deliberately corrupting the organisation.
Corruption hinders efficient work, poisons the organisation and undermines the community interest.
Corruption is not a synonym for mistake: everyone has the right to make mistakes, whereas corruption implies awareness and intent.
The points of corruption are the inverses of the points of the view of value and work – their negative manifestations.
In detail
1. Lack of vision, extensive management, lack of responsibility
For the corrupt employee, client satisfaction matters only until the agreement with the client has been concluded.
2. Lack of commitment, absence of commitment
Without personal commitment, truly great results cannot be achieved, nor can the organisation’s operation be made a success.
3. Minimalism
The minimalist only just scrapes the performance level from below and resigns themselves to working worse than the best of their ability.
4. Negativity: self-deception, pessimism, passivity
In problematic situations the negative person loses the ability to act, and in so doing drains energy from others.
5. Concealment and incomprehensibility
Concealment is the absence of transparency and clarity. A person who makes only the result transparent, but not the process leading to it, deceives themselves and their colleagues.
6. Mere busyness, exclusive self-assessment, lack of a yardstick
For the corrupt employee, the activity carried out becomes the yardstick of work.
7. Blindness to results, self-serving work, inspection
The process owner who is blind to results believes it is enough for their results to be of good quality and pays no attention to the quality of the process leading to them.
8. The security of constancy, habit
The illusion of the security of constancy gives the process owner the mistaken idea that if they do something well, and do it just as well every day, this means security for the future.
9. Chaos: lack of system and overcomplication
A process owner who does not recognise the importance of order in themselves complicates the world and creates a lack of system and disorder around them.
10. Destructiveness, self-interest
A person driven by self-interest is cooperative at most in words; as soon as it comes to action, they keep only their own interests in mind.
11. Compromise: acceptance and reservation
Because of constant compromises, everyone always feels that they have had to give ground on their position.
12. Individual responsibility, the community identity of difference
Although they work in a community, the corrupt person takes responsibility only for their own work.