John Deere On Most Ethical Company List

[lilranch2001]

your point in creating this thread they are a member of this mighty ethical group....
My point is look what other companies are on the list
GE? come on, they hold a million square feet of buildings in Fort Wayne and have 15 employees in them so they do not have to remediate the pollution they have created under the buildings when they tear them down.

Tell me, is that ethical?

 

[arlen4720]

your point in creating this thread they are a member of this mighty ethical group....
My point is look what other companies are on the list
GE? come on, they hold a million square feet of buildings in Fort Wayne and have 15 employees in them so they do not have to remediate the pollution they have created under the buildings when they tear them down.

Tell me, is that ethical?

You could submit that information to the committee for consideration in their next years application.

 

[lilranch2001]

I don't have enough money to buy a vote

 

[murphy1244]

Boy The JD crowd sure are a snotty Bunch.

 

[farmgirl19]

I'm in the JD crowd, Murph! Be careful!

 

[murphy1244]

I'm in the JD crowd, Murph! Be careful!

Oops, Well beside FG I mean.

 

[smstonypoint]

I'm always a little skeptical when it comes to reports listing the "Best ..........." the "Most .......," etc. No offense intended, but a report from a few years ago listed Pittsburgh, PA as the "Best Place to Live in the US."


Apparently, a company can nominate itself. Here's a snippet about how the nominees are scored.

At the heart of the evaluation and selection process for Ethisphereç's World's Most Ethical Companies is Ethisphere's proprietary rating system, the corporate Ethics Quotient (EQTM). The framework of EQ is comprised of a series of multiple choice questions that capture a company's performance in an objective, consistent and standardized way. The information collected is not intended to cover all aspects of corporate governance, risk, sustainability, compliance or ethics, but rather it is a comprehensive sampling of definitive criteria of core competencies.....

The EQ framework consists of five core categories. The categories and associated weighting for each is defined as follows:

Ethics and Compliance Program (25%) .......
Reputation, Leadership and Innovation (20%)........
Governance (10%)........
Corporate Citizenship and Responsibility (25%)........
Culture of Ethics (20%)......

An initial unverified EQ score is derived through a proprietary matrix of relationships between answers to given questions and a set of complex formulas based on demographic qualifiers. It is important to understand that while the EQ is the foundation for the WME selection process, the process does not end when the survey is complete. The EQ results simply help us to narrow the number of entrants to the top percentile of performers in each industry. Once a company's EQ score warrants additional consideration for WME recognition, additional due diligence efforts begin. This process may include multiple means of verification as needed and warranted, including independent research, request for documentation supporting select answers and/or interviews with company leadership.

Scoring & Methodology | Ethisphere® Institute

So, a company representative takes a multiple-choice exam with varying (and arbitrary) weights assigned to the exam question categories. The exam is then graded via "a proprietary matrix of relationships between answers to given questions and a set of complex formulas based on demographic qualifiers" -- whatever that is. There is then a followup to determine whether the company representative cheated on the exam.

I remain skeptical.

Steve

 

[fieldman12]

I saw on the stock channel many years ago they where claiming John Deere was one of the top most respected companies by consumers in the US even above Mc Donalds. Deere has still some private dealers out there but its true along with Case IH they want franchise stores. They have been pushing out the little dealers for several years now. It ticks me off because one allot of the little stores is what got John Deere to where they are today. Two what if the francise stores goes out of business?? If that happen you may be doing allot of driving to get to another franchise.

 

[coobie]

I'm in the JD crowd, Murph! Be careful!

ME TOO!!I am in the other crowd also.I am torn,LOL

 

[farmgirl19]

Coobie; It looks like you suffer from an identity crisis! :laughing: