Sunday, September 28, 2014

Ch. 3 - Ethics & Social Responsibility

Samsung is a company that doesn't base their business only in selling. They understand the importance of the environment and young generations. Samsung is committed to following with local laws and regulations as well as applying a strict global code of conduct to all employees. Samsung believes that ethical management is not only a great for responding to the rapid changes in the global business environment, but also a great opportunity for building trust with its various stakeholders including customers, shareholders, employees, business partners and local communities. Samsung aims to become one of the most ethical companies in the world, Samsung continues to train its employees and operate monitoring systems, while practicing fair and transparent corporate management.


Samsung embraces a corporate program that ensures the ethical business practices. Some of the policies such as: Audit committee, audit systems, Integrity Training, Cyber Audit Programs and the most important which is their Global code of conducts.
The Samsung Electronics Global Code of Conduct 5 principles.

Principle 1. We comply with law and ethical standards
Principle 2. We maintain a clean organizational culture
Principle 3. We respect customers, shareholders and employees
Principle 4. We care for the environment, health and safety
Principle 5. We are socially responsible corporate citizen.

We will devote our human resources and technology to create Superior products and services thereby contributing to a better global society.

Social Responsibility


Samsung takes very seriously being a part of the society as a major contributor. Samsung social program is called Citizenship. The Citizenship program is divided in many arms:
• Citizenship focus: acting as a accountable citizen involve the following: Social welfare; Cultural and arts, and Volunteer services: Samsung lunched the Social Contribution corps in 1995 where employee get involved with their communities.

Risk Management

With new technologies and the wrong doings of others, Samsung has to stay on top of threats and disasters, externally and internally. Risk management has become a top priority for corporations. Samsung has a company-wide system which reviews and avoids financial and non-financial risk factors both internally and externally through its business areas. Samsung’s Business Continuity Plan (“BCP”) is the emergency plan developed to reduce potential damage to the company during a massive disaster. “BCP” is used to avoid major problems, achieving targets for recovery and maintaining the operation of the business in case an emergency should happen. Disasters such as a fire, explosions, and power outages are included in the emergency plan. Samsung also make sure that their employees are aware of these plans and implements routine training.

SAMSUNG Electronics' Global Code of Conduct-Samsung's Management Philosophy is to devote our human resources and technology
to create superior products and services, thereby contributing to a better global
society. Samsung's code of conduct is the foundation to create a fair, dean and transparent
coporate culture.
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