Ethics and integrity
We have high expectations for ethical conduct in every aspect of our business.
Our Ethics & Compliance group, led by our chief compliance and risk officer, is committed to continuing General Mills’ long-standing culture of integrity by ensuring that employees know what it means to behave ethically and to act in compliance with our Code of Conduct and policies.
We achieve these goals by regularly communicating and training.
We also leverage our senior leadership’s commitment to integrity. For example, we host an annual Ethics in Action event; our 2010 event theme was “small things matter.”
In the weeks leading up to the conference, posters – and articles on our company intranet site – highlighted the positive ethical decisions made by employees. One poster explained how an employee forfeited a US$30,000 prize after making a hole-in-one at a charity golf game hosted by one of our customers. At a minimum, accepting the prize could create the appearance of a conflict of interest.
