CISCO : 'World's Most Ethical Company' for 7th Straight Year

Cisco was recently placed on Ethisphere’s World’s Most Ethical company list for the seventh year in a row. Ethisphere, an independent research center that promotes best practices in corporate ethics and compliance, issues an annual survey with a series of multiple-choice questions that are intended to “capture a company’s performance in an objective, consistent, and standardized way.” 

Scores are then generated in five categories:

• Ethics and compliance programs
• Reputation, leadership, and innovation
• Governance
• Corporate citizenship and responsibility
• Culture of ethics                                                                                             Only a handful of companies have remained on the list as long a Cisco. The Cisco Ethics Office works with their various compliance partners around the company and around the world to enable and ensure legal and regulatory compliance in the 100+ countries in which they do business. The Ethics Office specifically focuses its attention on responding to questions and concerns that come in through the various reporting avenues, counseling with the business, and working with leaders to promote and enhance Cisco’s culture of ethics and integrity.

Cisco is also one of the few companies in the world to repeatedly achieve 100% participation in its code of business conduct certification and related trainings. This is just another indicator of Cisco’s commitment to good business ethics. Kudos to the entire Cisco Family on this great achievement.

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