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12 BlackBerry Code of Business Standards and Principles Contents
Reward Integrity
Recognize and encourage ethical conduct. Call out
situations where integrity won the day – prevented
financial loss, protected or built our reputation, or
avoided other serious consequences.
Do Not Tolerate Behavior Lacking Integrity
You have a special responsibility to report illegal
behavior and violations of the BS&P. You must
stop misconduct with quick, appropriate action.
You must inform your manager or the appropriate
representative of Legal, Human Resources, Finance
or the Integrity & Compliance Oce of potential
breaches that you observe or have reported to you.
Closely Manage Spending
As a manager, you are responsible for the money
spent and expenses incurred by your reports, and
must carefully review such spend and expenses
before approving. If you don’t understand what you
are approving or do not have complete information,
don’t approve. Get the information you need or
seek help.
A: The requirement is that you manage the
activities of your team to deliver against your
team objectives and prevent fraud, corruption
and other violations of the BS&P or the law.
The BS&P does not cover every situation or spell
out each specific process or control your team
must follow to promote lawfulness and integrity.
Determine the legal and ethical risks your team
faces and then develop ways to address them.
Here are some ideas to get you started:
Budget planning: establish processes and
deadlines for budgeting to ensure that
sourcing, purchase order, and contract
requests for vendors can be submitted on time.
Service-provider guidelines: provide
guidance for how a service provider should
perform routine interactions with your
team, such as requirements for safeguarding
BlackBerry assets and formatting quotes,
invoices and proof of activity.
Regularly review and discuss challenges:
identify and capture the information
and reporting that will allow you to monitor
compliance with your requirements, and
set aside a regular time to discuss the
challenges that your team faces as it
conducts business with integrity, perhaps
during a monthly team meeting.
Q: We have company-wide policies, so why do I have a managerial responsibility
to implement my own processes and controls?
Please contact the Integrity & Compliance Oce if you would like assistance or suggestions.