General Motors has been voted as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies by Ethisphere for the second year in a row.
Ethisphere is a for-profit agency that attempts to define and advance the standards of ethical business practices. Each year, it publishes a list of what it considers to be the World’s Most Ethical Companies based on its own Ethics Quotient framework, which assigns companies a score based on their performance in five key categories: ethics and compliance, corporate citizenship and responsibility, culture of ethics, governance and leadership and reputation.
General Motors is one of only four honorees in the automotive industry and, like last year, remains the only automotive original equipment manufacturer on the ist. The only other auto industry honorees named to the list for 2021 are self-driving vehicle company Aptiv, diesel engine supplier Cummins and equipment supplier Cooper Standard.
General Motors has only expanded its ethical business practices since being named to the 2020 World Most Ethical Companies list. The automaker was a major player in the United States’ response to the COVID-19 pandemic, manufacturing facemasks and other medical-grade PPE for distribution to hospitals and other medical centers. It also signed a contract with the federal government to provide life-saving Ventec ventilator machines for the national stockpile.
GM has also accelerated its commitment to electric vehicles over the past year, implementing a strategy that will see 40 percent of its product lineup consist of battery-powered cars, trucks and SUVs by 2025. It is also on track to be fully carbon neutral by 2040 and hopes to stop selling internal combustion engine passenger vehicles entirely by 2035.
“GM’s Code of Conduct sets forth our fundamental commitment to conduct business openly, ethically and honestly, even when it is difficult to do so,” said Michael Ortwein, GM’s assistant general counsel and chief compliance officer. “The World’s Most Ethical Company designation is external validation of GM’s core principles and yet another instance of GM leading by example on the path to transform the industry.”
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Who cares! The people who would care about that type of thing are probably walking around with Nike’s on their feet that were made in a sweat shop somewhere else not in the west.
GM could also be voted one of the most cotton soft corporations too. As there is not cool factor to them just virtue signaling.
Based on What ? Cutting jobs and US based Plants and sending them to China and Mexico !!!
Jetmech,
If you’re such a smart aZZ, try not buying anything from China for a month.
They also go after corrupt Union leaders ,and corporations ,and the unfair competition and sadly, blocked by corrupt judges ,yet still keep fighting.
As a GM owner for the last 30 years I find this statement hard to believe. 1990 Olds Delta 88, defective antilock master brake cylinder: 1997 Olds Delta 88, defective transmission pump, 2004 Buick LeSabre, leaking rear engine seal, 2011 Chevy Equinox, pistons and rings, high pressure fuel pump, cam shaft advancers, timing chain, guides, catalytic converter, O2 sensor, wind shield wiper motor and connectors, fuel tank pressure relieve valve, all warranty work. 2019 Acadia Denali, Tires that wear out in 20,000 miles, Warranty work has improved under Mary Barra, but it still has a long way to go.
Bob,
You obviously don’t understand the meaning of the word ethical.
they were not referring to dealing with customers with vehicles that have a high rate of part failure all the oems need work in this regard.
Ethical…selling substandard wheels on the C7 GS…THEN DENYING WARRANTY CLAIMS UNLESS ONE TAKES THE CASE TO SMALL CLAIMS COURT. Designing , supplying wheels that cannot take the INTENDED USAGE OF A HIGH PRICED SPORTS CAR AND DENYING ANY PROBLEMS?? Ya..THATS ETHICAL !
Endless investment in and support of Communist China whilst turning a blind eye to China’s undisputed global leadership in human rights violations, genocide, military expansion and environmental pollution among countless other transgressions including government coverup of what was to become the crushing CCP Virus pandemic doesn’t an “Ethical Company” make except in a vacuum of reality.
I think Canadians would disagree in that GM shut more plants in Canada than it did in the whole world, Then any Commonwealth country that had an industry connected to GM was closed too. That was good for Korea Mexico and China
It’s very obvious that laws, rules and regulations don’t apply to the two tiered justice system for billionaires in the US. And that they can literally get away with murder in most situations…. Musk is well aware that one of his childish comments in China would immediately get him shut down by the Chinese Communist dictatorship. So Musk goes down on his knees, like every other Western CEO and services the party…
TESLA REACTS TO ISSUES DIFFERENTLY IN CHINA
There’s a very interesting article in Bloomberg that reports on how Elon Musk kowtows to the Chinese government at the same time he defies the American government. Musk attacked the U.S. Securities and Exchange commission on Twitter when it sued him over claims he was going to take the company private–which he never did. He hung up on the chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board about an investigation into a fatal accident involving Autopilot. And he called California health officials fascists when they shut down Tesla’s plant in Fremont because of the pandemic. But when Chinese officials called Tesla on the carpet for quality and safety problems, it was a completely different story. Tesla quickly apologized, promised to strictly obey Chinese laws and agreed to strengthen its internal management procedures.
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The squandering of American exceptionalism. We do it to ourselves, we do…
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Ha!!!!! That’s preposterous “Progressive” propaganda!!! What a load of CRAP!!! I’m literally LOL & talking to myself over seeing this BS!!
Obama gets a Nobel “Peace” prize. China Cuba & Russia elected to the UN Human Rights Council. Grandma killer Cuomo gets an “Emmy”. And now this ultimate in hypocrisy!!!
GM sets up shop in CCP China at the bottom of the world “ethics” list!! Authoritarian Gov, Censorship, Propaganda, work camps, genocide, IP theft, infiltrating USA College Research programs & sending the info back to the Chinese Army, fair trade eliminating tariffs, consumer product dumping, currency manipulation. Shall we go on???
What a crock this is.
Imo you can keep going till a chip in the device you are using fries
MossmanMike,
As we have seen in the last years your Yankee government is as corrupt and criminal as any other government in the world. Except that compared to the CCP, yours is incredibly incompetent and spends most of its time fighting itself. Dumb!
Corrupt & criminal. Yes. Follow the money!!! Most of us knew the DC Swamp was corrupt. We just didn’t realize how bad it is. It took a non political hack Orangemanbad to EXPOSE a lot of it. And the corrupt & criminal DC Swamp took it back as the world witnessed last year. At least we don’t have CCP “re-education” slave work camps & genocide. YET. Although the “Progressive” Totalitarian Lefties are hard at work at it…….
If our so called leaders were held to their responsibilities to serve us rather than being beholden to their own wealth building agendas, we wouldn’t have had an entire obstructionist Democratic Party wasting US citizens time and resources for five (going on six) long and painful years immolating the greatest threat the heavily protected Swamp has ever seen – the first US President in decades dedicated to serving the people of the United States of America. How we continue to allow government to fleece us when their elected duty is to serve is beyond me, but recent patriotic uprisings shouldn’t come as any great surprise and it’s beyond unjust to frame the motivations of all Americans who want their government putting our country first with derision.
If the people who governed were not preoccupied with protecting an elite financed and inflicted globalist agenda wherein American exceptionalism is the primary target of mitigation by an aggressive global wealth redistributing cabal, they would have adequate time and incentive to serve our country and regulate in ways that would promote and protect American jobs and energy dependency rather than enacting every possible dim-witted anti-American law and Executive Order imaginable to squash the country under the false flags of climate change and social justice. China’s leaders put China first. As Yuan alludes, our leaders also put China first. We let this happen while they play their shell games fomenting racism and keeping us on our toes protecting our daughters from trans men invading their locker rooms and so much other nonsense taking up the national spotlight while they flush our Constitutional rights, prosperity and national security down the toilet with a resounding attaboy from China run Big Tech.
You go MossMan these dumbocrats only have about 23 months to try to destroy the country working people don’t understand they only want their tax money and voteJust look at all the great American cities they have destroyed democrat-controlled used to be beautiful places now they are at least half ghetto they don’t get it give me your vote and shut up see you next election
As a GM retiree I know for a fact that this is complete BS.
I have witnessed many upper level management lie cheat and steal or instruct their subordinates to do so.
Workers were threatened to falsely documentation on a daily basic to cover their own asses and get bonuses.
GM ethical. Hahahahah
A thumbs down to this by all the gM propaganda people won’t change the facts or make this untrue.
I can truly believe it. My only direct experience with the cronies in that Ivory Tower in Detroit was Designing a new Golf Clubhouse for them on one of their former Fisher Body Plants, a polluted Superfund hazard waste site. They spent millions on creating a pretty good little 9 hole Golf Course. But ended up spending double Architectural & Engineering fees because the first beautiful 2 story Clubhouse with community meeting & entertainment space came in about $350k over budget. The Corp lame brains must have spent that much on flying themselves in from Detroit to Newark every week. Long story short, the second design a plain Jane stripped down one story clubhouse w/ restaurant was built. Frustrating as hell experience with GM upper level “Management” that couldn’t see the forest for the trees.