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Best Buy Blog Seeks to Make Corporate Ethics Transparent

By Bruce Carton

Many companies try to sweep their corporate transgressions and internal issues under the rug, but Best Buy is apparently not among them. In fact, I have been quite intrigued recently with the Kathleen Edmond blog, written by Best Buy's chief ethics officer. In the tagline she has chosen for the blog, Edmond writes that "[by] making ethics a completely transparent dialogue, Best Buy can be a leader in ethical standards for our employees, our customers, and our shareholders. Please feel free to join the conversation." It appears that Edmond is serious about making ethics at Best Buy "transparent," to the point that she regularly posts about (and seeks comments on) the latest ethical or internal violations committed by Best Buy employees, and about some of the company's more aggressive ethical guidelines. Edmond writes that last month, for instance, Best Buy fired an employee who had gone into the desk drawer of a department supervisor searching for her own paycheck, noticed the supervisor?s paycheck, ?glanced at? the supervisor?s pay information, and later told another employee about the supervisor?s paycheck details. Edmond tries to create a discussion with her readers on these real-life occurrences, asking them if details such as the length...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on December 07, 2009 (boomark / email).