CH2M HILL has been named one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® for 2014! This is the sixth consecutive year the firm has received this designation from Ethisphere Institute, an independent research center that promotes best practices in corporate ethics and governance.
“I am immensely pleased, but not surprised by this honor,” said Chief Executive Officer Jacque Hinman. “It represents the unimpeachable character of our people and core value of ethical practice throughout the enterprise. Our company is built on a foundation of quality and integrity, both reputational imperatives but also vitally important to our culture.”
Ethisphere recognizes organizations with this award for their continued commitment to raising the bar on ethical leadership and corporate behavior. World’s Most Ethical Company honorees understand the correlation among ethics, reputation, and daily interactions with their brand.
“The entire community of World’s Most Ethical Companies believes that customers, employees, investors, and regulators place a high premium on trust and that ethics and good governance are key in earning it,” said Ethisphere’s Chief Executive Officer Timothy Erblich. “CH2M HILL joins an exclusive community committed to driving performance through leading business practices. We congratulate everyone at CH2M HILL for this extraordinary achievement.”
The World’s Most Ethical Company assessment is based upon the Ethisphere Institute’s Ethics Quotient™ framework. The Ethics Quotient framework has been developed over years of effort to provide a means to assess an organization’s performance in an objective, consistent, and standardized way. The information collected provides a comprehensive sampling of definitive criteria of core competencies, rather than all aspects of corporate governance, risk, sustainability, compliance, and ethics. The Ethics Quotient framework and methodology were determined, vetted, and refined by the expert advice and insights gleaned from Ethisphere’s network of thought leaders and from the World’s Most Ethical Company Methodology Advisory Panel.
Scores are generated in five key categories: ethics and compliance program (25%); reputation, leadership, and innovation (20%); governance (10%); corporate citizenship and responsibility (25%); and culture of ethics (20%).