Pfizer frames corporate responsibility as keeping values a high priority and integrated across the business in prosperous and tough times. Pfizer says values help advance its mission to improve health around the world and create value for diverse stakeholders, and that it focuses not only on what it does but also on how it does it.

Values Integration in Pfizer Corporate Responsibility

Ethical values become "actionable" in corporations when corporations first become aware of, and then assume responsibility for, their duties toward stakeholders and stockholders.

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Ethics has been characterized as "doing the right thing" and as a motivational force that influences professionals' values, resembling a "carrot" approach to professional behavior.

Ethics as a Carrot Approach in Corporate Culture

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Ethical dimensions and practices necessary to motivate organizational behavior include transparency, privacy, honesty, objectivity, integrity, carefulness, openness, respect for intellectual property, civility, confidentiality, accountability, responsible mentoring, and respect for colleagues.

Ethical Practices That Motivate Organizational Behavior

Operationalizing Ethical Values Through Stakeholder and Stockholder Responsibility

Maintaining an ethical corporate culture requires both a values-based approach and a compliance approach. Studies show that ethical and compliance approaches are interrelated and work best together to motivate and sustain lawful and ethical behavior in organizations.

Dual Necessity of Ethics and Compliance for an Ethical Corporate Culture

Ethics complements compliance because the law cannot, does not, and will not cover every aspect of potentially harmful behavior.

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