Ethics Connection
Our Ethics Connection classroom sessions provide an opportunity for all employees to discuss video vignettes based on actual ethics cases, to spot issues and guide ethical decision-making. Our ethics education program also features online compliance modules, which employees are required to access to gain more in-depth knowledge in a variety of topics, many directly related to the defense industry. We have deployed an online ethical leadership education module, which is a required course of study for all levels of supervisors, managers and leaders. This course helps define ethical leadership, illustrates behaviors that demonstrate ethical leadership, and features Raytheon employees discussing their ethical expectations of our leaders.

Ethical Business Conduct
At Raytheon, ethical leadership is a core performance competency and is measured on a regular basis. Our business leaders report ethics program activity, employee opinion survey results and related metrics to review successes, identify areas for improvement and share best practices. In the 2006 sample employee opinion survey, 85 percent agreed that Raytheon is committed to ethical business conduct and 83 percent agreed that top management talks about the importance of ethics and that supervisors set a good ethical example; these were some of the most favorably rated responses in the survey.

Being ethical was rated the top “optimal Raytheon engineer attribute” by 76 percent of 1,100 recently hired Raytheon engineers surveyed in 2006. The emphasis we continuously place upon ethical business conduct squarely aligns with Raytheon’s important role supporting our country’s defense and homeland security missions.