Ethical conduct / Accountability

Ensuring the highest standards of ethical conduct from all employees is fundamental to AMEC's success. Any company who does not maintain such standards can face a major risk to their reputation. High standards of ethical conduct provide a company with benefits such as strong relationships with stakeholders and a positive reputation. Reputations can be made or lost on the actions of a single employee.

Educating the workforce about ethical matters is is crucial to maintaining AMEC's reputation. All senior managers must be kept up to date and informed about any ethical risk issues that may affect the business.

Setting a clear standard of behaviour is also at the heart of effective management of ethical risk. Our Code of Business Conduct sets out AMEC's standards for ethical behaviour as well as outlining the company's overall commitment to behaving in an ethical manner.

AMEC encourages employees to challenge unethical behaviour in the workplace. As part of the Code of Business Conduct, all employees have a personal responsibility to highlight corrupt behaviour to AMEC management and a confidential ethics help line is available to bring concerns about lack of ethical behaviour to the attention of management.

To find out more about AMEC's ethics policy and performance during 2007, go to the related documents navigation box on the right-hand side of this page.

Performance indicators

Indicator	Actual	Achieved
Extent to which employees or third parties bring alleged breached of the Guiding Principles to management attention	24	+8
Extent to which complaints result in formal action being taken against individual employees	0	-1
Number of employees completing ethical conduct on-line training	6256	Not comparable

Note these indicators are compared directly to the 2006 performance it is not possible to recalculate to provide a like for like comparison.