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Ethics And Ethics Of SAIC : Code Of Conduct

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A1. Corporate Social Responsibility The chosen corporation to review their ethics program is SAIC. SAIC has a thirty page Code of Conduct that it follows. Considering corporate social responsibility with SAIC, this area is well covered and documented in its Code of Conduct. Areas such as Standards of Business Conduct, Equal Employment Opportunity and Safe and Healthy Work Environment, Dealing Fairly and Honestly, all go into great detail for expectations of SAIC employees, customers, the communities in which they have a presence as well as considerations for the environment. All these areas are addressed with clear direction for SAIC's corporate social responsibilities.
A2. Legal Mandate Compliance SAIC is meeting it's legal compliance covering broad areas of ethical conduct. SAIC has created reasonable standards to prevent criminal behavior and conduct. High level ethics officers have been hired, entire ethical department established. The organizations written standards of ethics are enforced, appropriate discipline guidelines written along with measures in place to respond and prevent negative conduct that does not align with its' written and enforced ethics program.
A2A. Implications of Noncompliance Since the creation of the U.S. Sentencing Commission in 1984 to address ethics and legal compliance for American businesses, ethics and a lack of ethics and its consequences in business is now being taken very seriously. The sentencing guidelines affect individuals as well as the companies where they are employed. The penalties can include incarceration and huge fines. There is a base fine, the “culpability score”, then a multiplier on the culpability score determined by the court based on the intended loss for the victims.
A2B. Legal or Ethical Safeguards The two selected areas in the SAIC Code of Conduct are safeguards and they are as follows; Integrity, dealing fairly with each other, customers, suppliers and competitors without manipulation, concealment or misrepresentations. The second is discipline of the individual for ethical violations, active or passive for not following the Code of Conduct or even the Spirit that includes up to termination of employment.
A3. Development of an

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