Realogy Holdings Corp. recently announced that the company has been recognized by the Ethisphere Institute, the global leader in defining and advancing the standards of ethical business practices, as a 2015 World’s Most Ethical Company®.
This is the fourth consecutive year in which Realogy has received this recognition. The World’s Most Ethical Companies designation recognizes those organizations that have had a material impact on the way business is conducted by fostering a culture of ethics and transparency at every level of the company. Realogy is one of just 132 companies in the world honored this year and is the only residential real estate company on the list.
“Once again, we are honored to be recognized by the Ethisphere Institute as being among an elite group of world-class companies focused on ethical leadership,” says Richard A. Smith, Realogy’s chairman, chief executive officer and president. “We take great pride in placing ethics and integrity at the core of our company culture. We believe that sustainable and trustworthy corporations can only be built upon a strong ethical foundation.”
“Behind every winning corporate culture are individuals with the highest ethical standards,” says Elisabeth Gehringer, Realogy’s chief ethics and compliance officer. “Ethics is not just a theory for us, it is our practice. Against an increasingly dynamic legal and regulatory landscape and with increasingly visible business conduct, it is more important than ever that each individual be empowered to do the right thing at every decision. Collectively, our employees share the mindset that our own personal integrity can infuse our business with ethical values.”
“The World’s Most Ethical Companies embrace the correlation between ethical business practice and improved company performance,” says Ethisphere’s Chief Executive Officer, Timothy Erblich. “These companies use ethics as a means to further define their industry leadership and understand that creating an ethical culture and earning the World’s Most Ethical Companies recognition involves more than just an outward facing message or a handful of senior executives saying the right thing. Earning this recognition involves the collective action of a global workforce from the top down. We congratulate everyone at Realogy for this extraordinary achievement.”
The World’s Most Ethical Company assessment is based upon the Ethisphere Institute’s Ethics Quotient™ (EQ) framework developed over years of research to provide a means to assess an organization’s performance in an objective, consistent and standardized way. Ethisphere assesses companies based on their scores in five key categories: ethics and compliance program (35 percent), corporate citizenship and responsibility (20 percent), culture of ethics (20 percent), governance (15 percent) and leadership, innovation and reputation (10 percent).
The full list of the 2015 World’s Most Ethical Companies can be found here.
For more information, visit www.realogy.com.
