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The Saint-Gobain Group considers that the basic values shared by management and employees alike are professional commitment, respect for others, integrity, loyalty and solidarity. These are principles of conduct which apply to each one of us.
PROFESSIONAL COMMITMENT for us means mobilising to the best of one's ability the knowledge and know-how of the individual and also calls for training to keep both up to date. It requires personal commitment and a willingness to take on those tasks which have been assigned and to acquire needed knowledge. It implies the effective contribution of each person in caring particularly for the environment and for worker health and safety.
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RESPECT FOR OTHERS is an absolute prerequisite for the professional and personal development of each person. It must be applied throughout the Group worldwide and implies an acceptance of pluralism and other cultures and of people of all origins. It is expressed in a readiness to listen to others, to inform, to explain and to engage in dialogue.
INTEGRITY requires a rigorous adherence to probity in one's professional activities. It admits of no compromising of the interests of the Group entrusted to the given individual in favour of that person's own private interests - whether in dealings within the Group or in dealings on behalf of the Group with third parties, whatever local practices might be.
Detailed rules of conduct may be adopted for certain categories of Group personnel where the nature of their responsibilities so requires.
LOYALTY requires honesty and fairness in dealing with superiors, colleagues, subordinates and third parties dealing with the Group. In particular, it is incompatible with the pursuit of self-interest where the latter conflicts with the goals of the individual Group company or the Group as a whole. It implies the adherence to the guidelines and internal rules of individual Group companies and of the Group as a whole.
SOLIDARITY is based on a sense of individual responsibility at work which prevails over self-centered thinking and encourages team work and bringing out the best in each person. It means rejecting management or operational methods which are geared more to the self-satisfaction of given individuals rather than the interests of the particular Group company or the Group as a whole.
- Principles of action
These principles have been precised for their application to the purchasing function in the Group in the document purchasing charter. |
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