Sunday, September 16, 2012

Chapter 3: Ethics and Social Responsibility

Microsoft Corp. code of ethics were created "to help you make good, informed business decisions and act on them with integrity."
Microsoft's code of ethics is broken down into six values to guide employee conduct: integrity and honesty, passion for customers, partners and technology; being "open and respectful with others and dedicated to making them better"; also a "willingness to take on big challenges and see them through"; as well as being "self-critical, questioning and committed to personal excellence and self-improvement"; and last but not least being "accountable for commitments, results, and quality to customers, shareholders, partners and employees."
Microsoft has also set up a business conduct line in order to enable employees to report any breach of ethics within the company to help prevent any wrongdoing.
Microsoft Corp. was named #2 out of the top 3 most admired companies by US consumers. For it's consistency in higher ethical and moral standards among many other companies around the world.
Through the thorough process of strong ethical grounding Microsoft has helped improve itself not only from the outside, but also within.
Microsoft Corp. with the help of techsoup.org have set up a charity to non for profit organizations and libraries alike and are helping them by supplying free software to help them reach their goals. This is one of the many philanthropic things done by Microsoft to help those in need.

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