How Virtuous is Your Firm? A Checklist

1. How serious have you been about hiring the disabled?

2. Have you encouraged diversity in the workplace? Are you serious

about supplier diversity?

3. Are you a learning organization?  Do you empower employees?

Are you treating your employees well?

4.  Does top management believe in the importance of integrity

and honesty?  Have conflicts of interest in the organization been

eliminated?

5.  Are leaders seen as servant leaders?  What is the ratio of CEO pay

relative to the pay of the average worker in your organization?

6. Have you helped the local community in which you conduct

business?  Are you helping public schools by partnering with them

and/or providing internships for students?

7. Is customer satisfaction important to your firm?  Do you have a

procedure for dealing with client complaints? Do you apologize when

you make a mistake?

8.  Have you been showing concern for the environment?

9. Are you engaging in corporate philanthropy? Have you made the

world a better place?

10. Does your mission statement discuss values?

Reprinted with permission from H. Friedman http://ejbo.jyu.fi/pdf/ejbo_vol14_no1_pages_14-20.pdf

The curator of this article, Philip Stephano, is a social media marketing strategist in Bucks County,  PA.  He is passionate about helping local and regional business around the country to use social media as an effective tool to find local prospects and customers. To learn more about Stephano go to http://about.me/philipstephano