NORTHAMPTON, MA / ACCESSWIRE / October 31, 2024 / Science Applications International Corp.
We sustain and cultivate our industry-leading ethical culture through a high-performing ethics program that deploys enterprise-wide training, guidance, communications, engagement, reporting and resolution services.
The Ethics Office is part of SAIC's Risk, Ethics and Compliance organization, reporting directly to the Office of the General Counsel. Every member of the team holds certifications as ethics and compliance professionals. The Ethics Office has direct access to the chair of the Board's Risk Oversight Committee. It provides quarterly updates to the Risk Oversight Committee that include helpline and misconduct reporting statistics; details on all investigations and resolutions; risk assessments and mitigation strategy; culture of ethics assessment or survey findings; and any information critical to the program's success.
We expect all employees to abide by SAIC's Code of Conduct. Our Code of Conduct helps build a strong foundation for our day-today behaviors, stakeholder commitments and high business standards. In FY24, 100% of our employees successfully acknowledged SAIC's Code of Conduct and completed assigned ethics training.
SAIC takes all reports about unethical or unlawful behavior seriously, listens carefully to concerns, conducts investigations objectively and takes appropriate corrective actions when warranted. Employees may report a breach to our integrity or our Code of Conduct anonymously or on a disclosed basis. An independent third party hosts our helpline and website reporting form, which is available 24/7. SAIC stands behind its employees and enforces a strict non-retaliation policy. We do not tolerate any acts of retaliation against those who make reports of misconduct in good faith.
Establishing and maintaining trust in the ethics case-management process is of utmost importance. Employees can check the status of their cases - even when they submit anonymously. For transparency, we publish quarterly summaries of substantiated cases and overall metrics on our company intranet.
WHAT OUR EMPLOYEES TELL US ABOUT OUR ETHICAL CULTURE
On a biennial basis, we survey our employees about the company's ethics program using a third party to help with benchmarking and to ensure the survey is confidential and anonymous. We work with the vendor to measure the essentials of an ethics program, as it aligns with, among other guidelines, the Department of Justice's Sentencing Guidelines.
In our most recent Ethics survey, SAIC outperformed its benchmark across all eight ethical categories. The survey responses showed the importance of company leaders in creating our culture of ethics ― assessing our leaders' role as exceptional.
The third party benchmarked SAIC against companies in the aerospace and defense sector, the business and professional services sector and the engineering services sector reflecting more than 90,000 respondents across 18 companies.
SAIC outperformed industry benchmarks in all ethics categories.
Our leaders' role in creating our culture of ethics was assessed as exceptional.
SAIC EMPLOYEES COMPLETED NEARLY 55,000 HOURS OF ETHICS AND COMPLIANCE TRAINING IN FY24
Our employees completed almost 55,000 hours of ethics and compliance training in FY24. We require training based on both an enterprise risk review and risks specific to job responsibilities and assignments. Our ethics and compliance training program:
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Receives development input from functions outside of our Risk, Ethics and Compliance organization
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Refreshes training and uses a modality of delivery to ensure employees experience engaging content
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Integrates elements identified through risk assessment, evaluation or other risk factors to target specific and select audiences
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Assigns additional training at a manager or business unit leader's request
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Maintains a library of courses that employees can elect to take on demand
Our Ethics Champions - more than 85 employees across the company and at all major corporate and customer sites - work as liaisons to our business groups. They expand our communications reach and foster an ethical culture by encouraging people to speak up when they think there may be an ethical issue. We share expectations to our ethics partners in writing, provide them with training and furnish resources to help them fulfill their role. Ethics Champions meet regularly with the Ethics Office to hear first-hand from company leadership about issues and opportunities ― and to share back to leadership about the ethical culture across SAIC.
Learn more in SAIC's 2024 Corporate Responsibility Report
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