Objectives
- Promote a culture of ethics, honesty and transparency
- Discourage violation of organization principles
- Ensure compliance with existing laws and regulations
- Strengthen the control systems
- Combat fraud and bad practices
- Identify, reduce and manage the risks of the business
- Spread a positive image of the organization before the community
- Offer safety to stakeholders, especially to shareholders and investors by management transparency
- Improve the working environment increasing motivation through collaboration of all
- Maximize profits through reduction of undesirable and incorrect costs
- Reduce legal liability
Problems avoided
- Accounting fraud
- Tax evasion
- Embezzlement
- Theft
- Diversion of merchandise
- Corruption (intra and extra corporis)
- Bribery
- Overcharging on purchases of materials and feedstock, as well as hiring of services
- Overpricing on receipts and expenses
- Waste of resources, especially materials and time
- Sabotage
- Disclosure of strategic and secret affairs of the organization
- Conflicts of Interest
- Unauthorized use of the organization?s name
- Inappropriate use of Internet and email supplied by the organization
- Noncompliance with standards of Ethics, Quality and Safety of the organization
- Inobservance of administrative norms and regulations
- Violation of the organization?s internal regulations
- Disrespect for legislation
- Persecution
- Discrimination of any kind
- Degrading and vexatory treatment
- Moral coercion
- Abuse of power
- Physical aggression
- Sexual harassment
- Personal, material and environmental accidents resulting from negligence
- Use of drugs, alcohol and carrying of weapons