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2SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AT THE HEART OF OUR STRATEGY
commitments gave rise to the Responsibility & Ethics Dynamics provide team members with effective support in their daily
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program in 2010 (R&ED program). actions and decision-making, primarily through access to the
necessary resources (policies, procedures, tools&best
Our Principles of Responsibility
practices);
help team members identify the appropriate individuals to guide
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As a global corporation, Schneider Electric continuously interacts them in their eco-citizen approach and in each of the areas
with local and international partners. The Group’s borders are covered by the principles;
expanding, its environment is constantly changing, and its societal
know how to notify the authorities of breaches of ethics, with
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responsibilities and activities are growing. In this international
respect to current laws and regulations.
context, reprehensible behavior may be seen when the ethics
inspection and prevention processes are fragile. The Group is See pages62-65 for more details on Ethics & Responsibility.
responsible for implementing its resources to support employees in
Global policies
the event of an ethical dilemma.
Our Principles of Responsibility, published for the first time in 2002 In order to implement these principles, Schneider Electric has
and updated in 2009 and again in 2013, is a summary document published a series of global policies. These reference documents
inspired by the 10 principles of the Global Compact, the Universal are distributed throughout the Group so that all team members can
Declaration of Human Rights and standards issued by the embrace Schneider Electric’s eco-citizen approach and apply it in
International Labour Organisation and the Organization for line with local culture and legislation: Quality Policy, Environmental
Economic Cooperation and Development. The document is Policy, Human Resources Policies (Political Diversity, Health and
available in 30languages and is distributed to all employees. Wellness Policy, Travel Policy), Security Policy, Safety Policy, Web
Policy (Social Media Policy, Web Usage Policy), Competition Law
By adopting Our Principles of Responsibility in 2002, the Group
Policy, stock-market code of ethics.
has an individual and collective reference point. This document
outlines the Group’s commitments to all of its stakeholders: the
Environment
Company’s employees, its business partners (mainly clients and
suppliers), shareholders, the civil society and the planet. The first version of Schneider Electric’s environmental policy was
published in 1992, modified in 2004 and confirmed in
In2009 and in 2013, the Group updated Our Principles of October2007. It aims to improve industrial processes, reinforce
Responsibility to set out its standards on ethics. This document product eco-design and incorporate Group customers’ concerns
incorporates updated Group and employee commitments on the for environmental protection by providing them with product and
following: service solutions. It applies to the Group and is accompanied by
the respect of law, the limits established by each employee to
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global action plans.
ensure full compliance with the laws of all the countries in which
Social
Schneider Electric is present;
the code of ethics that all employees must follow in line with the
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The Group’s Human Resources policies cover the following:
professional regulations of the Group; diversity, employee engagement, recruiting, international mobility,
training, human capital development, talent identification, total
Group social responsibility –what all employees must do to act
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remuneration, social benefits and health and safety. These apply to
responsibly towards society and the planet. the Group and are accompanied by global processes.
In2010, the Responsibility&Ethics Dynamics program put these
ambitions into practice by setting up an organization, procedures
and tools for the Group, so that its employees could:
Ratings and awards 1.6
The evaluations by the leading sustainability ratings agencies and
Ethical stock market indices
by a number of ethical fund managers indicate the Company’s A key performance indicator was set in the Planet&Society
performance in its sector. The evaluations and awards underline Barometer for the duration of the 2012-2014 Connect program: to
external recognition of the Group’s sustainable development ensure Schneider Electric’s presence in the three major SRI
programs. (Socially Responsible Investing) indices –the DJSI World, the DJSI
In the Ipreo report SRI Leaders Index Fall 2014, Schneider Electric Europe, and since 2013, the CDP (CPLI index and/or CDLI) to
was listed as joint third for the global company with the most SRI replace the ASPI, which is no longer published.
funds in its capital (148funds).
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