What we recognise and reward sends a strong signal about what we value and creates incentives for the behaviour we want to see.

• The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) provides awards to those who go ‘Above and Beyond’ including in a specific category for integrity. The integrity category recognises employees who either “exemplify integrity at the heart of the ATO” or “demonstrate ethical conduct by embedding and strengthening individual or system integrity by showcasing fraud prevention thinking and maintaining high integrity standards”.
• The Department of Finance recognises ethical leadership informally through feedback and public acknowledgement, and formally through the Finance Awards program. Under the Awards, a specific leadership category recognises those staff that have exemplified Finance’s leadership expectations, which explicitly includes “Acting with Integrity”.
• DITRDCA acknowledges staff who are ‘Living the Values’ of the department informally using thank you cards that can recognise ‘integrity moments’. Integrity is recognised more formally through the annual Secretary’s awards.
• The Treasury has individual and team awards for Integrity.
• Ethical leadership is recognised within some agencies when their award programs consider nominations using the APS Leadership Capabilities and Secretaries Charter of Leadership Behaviours, which include integrity.
• A number of agencies have Secretary’s awards with categories that recognise contributions to ethical culture, excellence in leadership through integrity and honesty, promoting positive morale and respect, empowering others to succeed and modelling exceptional service and integrity.