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we had a charity organization from a
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care sector we have a central government
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department we had a County police force
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and a major UK retailer and in addition
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to this we did collect some data as well
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from National Farm pull of working
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people via a questionnaire survey and we
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also did some interviews in another
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manufacturing organization so we've got
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quite a wide range of data from
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different types of organisations people
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doing very different types of work one
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of the things that really stood out for
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me in terms of what we discovered was
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that only 21% of people within the
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working population rate themselves
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highly of purposeful leaders and I think
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that that's really quite a concerning
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finding if people aren't able to be
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purposeful as they go about their work
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so they're not they haven't got a strong
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vision for their team they're not really
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committed to their stakeholders around
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the organisation in the organisation and
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they don't have a very strong sense of
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their own moral self those people are
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rating themselves low on these three
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things that that is really quite an
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important finding for organisations and
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I think it represents quite a
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significant barrier to creating
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purposeful organisations so we're
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hearing a lot these days about the need
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for organisations to be purposeful to go
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beyond short-term profit making and to
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really think about the place of
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organisations in society and what they
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can contribute to the greater good and
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if we have leaders in organisations who
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don't have a strong sense of their own
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purpose then this is going to really be
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an impediment to organisations
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developing that sense of purpose that we
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really need in society today
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one of the questions that we asked as we
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went round the organization's was what
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factors enable the creation of an
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environment that fosters purposeful
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leadership and some of the things that
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really came out from that were things
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like the importance of having a really
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good whistle blowing policy that people
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felt empowered and enabled to use we
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also found that it was really important
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that employees felt that their leaders
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set a very good example in terms of
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being purposeful themselves so where
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people felt that their leaders weren't
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themselves being purposeful or ethical
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and it was much more difficult for that
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environment to be created that really
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encouraged individual employees to be
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purposeful and ethical in their own work
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and I think also another thing that
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people talked about quite a lot with the
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importance of training and development
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so people welcome to the opportunity to
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go to development workshops and so on
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where they could really learn about the
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organization's ethics the way that they
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worked with the wider community and
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society so that they could really see
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how they could divert their own sense of
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purpose and ethics as they go about
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their work
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