Who We Are
Mission
To assist business leaders in
creating ethical business
cultures
at the enterprise, community and global levels.
Vision
To be a leading edge
resource integrating business experience with
academic rigor and research to help leaders create and sustain ethical cultures.
Shared Values
Statement
Introduction
Values and norms determine an organization’s soul and character. It is the common thread that binds the collective energy and efforts of an organization. Even though individuals bring together diverse backgrounds, experiences and cultures, the shared values provide a common link. They are the unspoken language that depicts how an organization behaves regardless of the external influences. Shared values are how organizations are known by their audiences … their customers, employees, owners, regulators, suppliers, partners, competitors, and communities.
At CEBC, shared values take on an even more important role than in other organizations. This is because CEBC’s purpose is to assist other organizations in creating their own “corporate character” … their own ethical culture. As a result, while the values that CEBC chooses are clearly important, it is vital that CEBC holds itself to a higher standard and “walks its talk” in order to model the behavior it challenges and encourages others to aspire to. And we must be congruent, modeling our standards both inside and outside of CEBC. We must recognize that whether we are engaged in CEBC business, or our personal or professional pursuits, we must hold ourselves … and we will be held to a higher standard.
CEBC
Shared Values
The
CEBC values can be described in three categories:
Integrity
Is Our Hallmark
We
value mutual respect in each other.
We care about each other as people. We embrace and engage the
diversity of our people.
Essential to us is transparency
…
openness in communications, processes and decision-making while maintaining and
protecting confidences. We accept responsibility and
accountability is treasured. Teamwork is our building block … cooperatively working
together to achieve CEBC goals.
How We Employ Entrusted Resources
We
Are Entrusted Stewards
We
have been gifted with a valuable community treasure in the CEBC. We take serious our
responsibility to perpetuate
this legacy.
We
give thanks for, and recognize
investments in CEBC. We are fiscally prudent, fully utilizing our resources. We generate
a surplus to contribute to perpetuating the CEBC. We invest funds with moderate aggressiveness generating the corresponding
risk/return premium.
While
we measure our performance and progress in short term increments, we are guided
by long-term outcomes. We communicate
our stewardship to our investors.
How We Work With Our Customers and Partners
We
Create Value For Our Customers and Partners
We listen,
understanding our customers and partners better than anyone else. We
excel at responsiveness
consistently exceeding expectations. We are innovative,
constantly putting in place new ideas or approaches that improve the products
and services we provide, enabling our customers to increase both ethical and
financial value. We are multi-dimensional
… increasing our knowledge through continuous learning; engaging different
disciplines and partnerships. We lead by serving
our customers and partners.
Summary
The
paragraphs following each value above describe what it means to live each value.
The operative words in each statement are underlined and in bold. While it is
difficult to perfectly reflect each value every moment, we aspire to do so. In
conclusion, we are guided by the three CEBC Values:
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Integrity
Is Our Hallmark
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We
Are Entrusted Stewards
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We
Create Value For Our Customers and Partners
Center for Ethical Business Cultures
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Phone: 651 962 4120 or 800 328 6819 Ext. 2-4120 ▪ Facsimile: 651 962 4042
Email: mail@cebcglobal.org
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