Ethics And Social Responsibility

Verizon fulfills its social responsobility in its eyes by running a volunteer program for all natural disaster and to help the homeless population. On top of that Verizon has a donation program for a variety of charities and will match every dollar that is donated. As for its ethics, verizon has a strict code of ethics. They require that every employe go through training so that they can make the right descions based on verizons values. This program is constantly updated and has been updated as recently as 2009 and has new addtions to the training program set to be implemented at the end of 2010. Verizon also offers three seperare hotlines that they constantly urge employees to use if they have any concens or ethical questions and each hotline number is completely anynoumous. To ensure that things within the ethical questioning process is done ethically, verizon established their Corporate Responsibility Executive Council in 2007 to overview all processes involving ethics. Overall verizons activities to satisfy their social reaponsibilities is fairly common and expected, their views on ethics and programs to ensure things are done the right way is very good.