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Office of Corporate Compliance: Fostering and Maintaining an Ethical Culture
While our ethical standards are deeply rooted in our culture, we take additional measures to help ensure consistency and compliance.
In 2001, the John Deere Office of Corporate Compliance was established in response to the increasing complexity of laws, regulations, and cultural practices in the global markets where
John Deere does business. The role of the Office of Corporate Compliance is to provide the company and employees with guidance on compliance with law and adherence to all aspects of the company's Business Conduct Guidelines, policies and practices.
The Office of Corporate Compliance conducts continuous training, communications, and sharing of best practices throughout John Deere's operations to ensure and enhance compliance with all laws and regulations. It provides employees
with access to all of John Deere's global policies, and provides guidance to employees in their responses to complex and sometimes
ambiguous business and cultural situations.
John Deere is well-regarded for its governance and compliance policies and its heritage of ethical business practices and good
corporate citizenship. The company regularly appears among the top-rated companies in CRO magazine's ranking of publicly held U.S. companies (published by Business Ethics magazine until it merged with CRO last year). The magazine's latest ranking of 1,100 companies appears in its January/February 2007 issue.
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