Post 7: General Ethics

With my environmental science major, I want to change the way we look at certain consumer products. Like cosmetics.  Products should be made with both the earth and people in mind.  Making sure it is healthy for both. I've taken Estee Lauder companies principles and morals and reviewed them.

OUR PRINCIPLES

We are dedicated to working together with uncompromising ethics and integrity. We encourage our people to create, to innovate, to be entrepreneurs and to strive for the best, always

WE ARE COMMITTED TO EXCELLENCE

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To ensure the long-term success of our Company, we integrate the “High-Touch” aspect of our business –our best quality– into all our day-to-day business activities. Our workplace culture fosters a unique spirit of teamwork, innovation, passion and a shared mission of "Bringing the Best to Everyone We Touch and Being the Best in Everything We Do."

 

We clearly post the following principles in our offices throughout the world for our employees to live and work by:

 

•  Provide customers with innovative cosmetic products of the highest quality.
 
•  Deliver outstanding service by treating each individual as we ourselves would like to be     
   treated.
 
•  Create an environment that fosters personal growth and well-being.
 
•  Build partnerships with our suppliers, retailers and colleagues based on fairness and trust.
 
•  Enhance our reputation of image, style and prestige. 
 
•  Pursue profit, but never at the expense of quality, service or reputation.
 
•  Eliminate waste and reduce inefficiencies in order to provide maximum value to our 
   customers. 
 
•  Be responsible citizens in every community we serve.

We continue to learn from the best practices of our brands and employees to unite and strengthen our efforts across brands, regions and functions as we strive to be the best. We are proud of the progress we have made to date and we recognize that we have opportunity for growth. We are committed to constantly improving our results.

This is an excellent code of ethics.

Now as for the countries, i'm not sure how to create a code of ethics for the U.S. would this be our constitution? Ethics in government? etc.