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Leaders Engage Their Teams in Conversations About Acting With Integrity
Bio-Rad leaders model ethical behavior and emphasize the importance of compliance and integrity to our workforce members. In communicating regularly with the workforce, our leaders reinforce the importance of integrity and the necessity of speaking up to ask questions and report concerns.
Leaders must cultivate a workplace where compliance risks and common ethical dilemmas can be discussed openly and workforce members’ questions and concerns are addressed and given appropriate respect.
Leaders must actively discuss integrity, ethical decision-making, and specific compliance scenarios with workforce members, making it clear that ethical decision-making is not negotiable. Our workforce members should never allow commercial business pressure to guide their actions in a manner contrary to our Values, our Code, our policies, or the law.
Workforce members look to leaders for direction, which means that Bio-Rad’s leaders must always act ethically and in line with our Values, our Code, our policies, and the law and must insist on the same ethical conduct from the workforce members they oversee.
- Follow our Values, our Code, our policies, and the law
- Seek guidance with questions or concerns
- Promote a culture of integrity
- Are accountable for their decisions and conduct
- Consider their reputation and Bio-Rad’s reputation when making decisions
- Does my action or decision violate our Values, our Code, our policies, or the law?
- Would I be embarrassed if others knew about my action or decision?
- Would my action or decision harm my or Bio-Rad’s reputation?
Expectations
- Leaders lead by example, always acting ethically and in line with our values, our Code, our policies, and the law.
- Leaders engage workforce members in constructive and frequent discussions about the risks we face at Bio-Rad.
- Leaders encourage and support workforce members asking questions and reporting concerns.
- Leaders frequently discuss ethical dilemmas and how to make ethical decisions with workforce members.
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Key Terms
Our values include that we are focused, accountable, sustainable and together; they guide and support us on our path; they daily remind how we act, how we make decisions that make a difference; they guide our orgnization and its culture.
Professional and ethical behavior that is characterized by respect for others, fairness, honesty, and compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
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FAQs
A: Leaders must make sure that business or commercial goals never interfere with the obligation to adhere to our shared values and follow our Code, our policies, and the law at all times. Business goals cannot supersede integrity. Leaders and workforce members may have to think creatively to meet goals, but they must always work with our values in mind while following our Code, our policies, and the law.
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A: While the wisdom of following the law, our Code, and our policies might seem obvious, when workforce members see and hear priority put solely on commercial goals, for example, they may feel that leaders do not value acting with integrity if it seems to interfere with those goals. Therefore, we all must be very vocal and clear that exercising ethical decision-making and integrity is always the most important goal.
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