Remember our company with professionalism, honesty and confidentiality is the primary responsibility of all our employees. B In this context, the expectations from company employees are as follows:
- Always comply with the law.
- Fulfil duties within the framework of basic ethic and human values.
- Behave in good faith and understanding in order to provide mutual benefit in all relations.
- Not derive an improper personal benefit in any way from people and organizations, not to accept or give bribes each whatever purpose.
- Perform related business ethics and rules of morality and all procedures supported these rules in continuing duties.
- Not to be in behaviour, in the declaration or in correspondence that leave the company under contract unless expressly authorized.
- Not to be in behaviour that annoys and/or damages other employees, not disorder work harmony.
- Pay attention to all tangible and intangible assets of company including information and information systems as personal property, protect them from possible loss, damage, misuse, abuse, theft and sabotage.
- Not use working time and company resources directly or indirectly for personal benefit and/or political activity and profit.
4.1. Asset and Information Management
4.1.1. Intellectual Property Rights
- Ensure that operations are initiated and completed on time legally to be able to guarantee the intellectual property rights of newly developed processes.
- Avoid unauthorized use of patents, copyrights, trade secrets, trademarks, computer programs or other intellectual and industrial property rights of other companies –knowingly-.
4.1.2. Information Management
- Ensure that all legal records are kept in correctly way.
- Not answer/approve information requests from third parties within the classified category for the company without senior management approval.
4.1.3. Security and Crisis Management
- Take necessary precautions to protect company employees, information and information systems, factories and administrative offices against possible terror, natural disasters and abuses.
- Make necessary crisis planning related to emergency crisis management that will be organise in case of terrorism, natural disasters etc. and ensure business continuity with minimum loss during crisis in this way.
- Take all kinds of precautions to prevent theft or damage of company assets.
4.1.4. Privacy
- Act with the consciousness that agreements with business partners, financial and trade secrets of the Company, information that will weaken the company's competitive power, personnel rights and information are in in the "privacy" framework, ensure their protection.
- Not share the information learned at the job and the documents they possess with the unauthorized persons and authority inside and outside of the company for whatever purpose, not use directly or indirectly for speculative purposes.
- Not use companies where they work, the customers of these companies, non-public information about other people and organizations in no way out of intended purpose, not share with third parties without obtaining the necessary permissions.
4.2. Avoiding Conflicts of Interest
Non-use of company’s resources, name, identity and power, avoiding situations that negatively affect name and image of the institution are the most important responsibility of all employees and following code of practices determine conflict situations in their private lives and the necessary principles to be applied in this situations while company employees perform duties and due to business relationships.
4.2.1. Not taking action in favour of itself and its relatives
Employees must inform the situation that they have own shares in another company or participate to their investment while starting work if there is. This issue is particularly questioned in business negotiations with candidates. Employees report to senior manager the changes that may occur over time in this situations and suchlike issues that can be perceived as a conflict of interest and the information is transmitted up to at least two high-level manager.
- Not provide unfair advantage in favour of itself, its relatives or third persons by profiting title and warranty.
- Take care not to fall into conflict of interest with currently worked institution in personal investments to be made.
- Take care that Personal investments to be made or any interests out of business activity don’t prevent to carry out his continuing duty in Kutes Metal Ind. Trade Inc. in terms of time and giving attention and avoid the occurrence of such situations.
- Give information to management in case of first-degree relatives of employee and people who are in the first-level decision-making position for the same job in the customer or supplier company.
4.2.2. Participation in representations and organization invitations
Participation in invitations like sporting activities, domestic/abroad visits etc. that can be perceived or be effective in making decisions except conferences, receptions, promotional events, seminars, etc. open to general participation which conducted by persons or institutions in a business relationship or carry potential is subject to Operational General Manager approval.
4.2.3. Receiving and Giving Gifts
In carrying out the relations with private or public persons and organizations seeking to establish or maintain a business relationship with the Company;
- Not accept and offer any gift that create impression of the presence of an irregularity, may cause dependency relationship or can be perceived like this, except materials, that given in accordance with commercial tradition and mores or has the characteristics of memory/promotional.
- Not claim, not offer to third parties, not accept when offered any discounts or benefits that may be perceived as unsuitable from suppliers, customers, Group companies or third parties.