Sen­si­tized by a se­ries of scan­dals around the world, No­var­tis spot­lights its ethics poli­cies

It turns out that any­one who doesn’t main­tain the ethics stan­dards at a new­ly sen­si­tized No­var­tis has run the risk of los­ing a bonus.

Taint­ed by a po­lit­i­cal scan­dal in Wash­ing­ton DC trig­gered by a con­tract signed by ex-CEO Joe Jimenez, the com­pa­ny de­cid­ed to talk up a scor­ing sys­tem it adopt­ed in 2016 where each staffer earns a 1, 2 or 3 num­ber rank­ing on ethics. Two qual­i­fies as meet­ing com­pa­ny ethics stan­dards and 3 qual­i­fies for role mod­el be­hav­ior — all of which could sig­nal the kind of per­for­mance war­rant­i­ng up to 35% of their to­tal com­pen­sa­tion, ac­cord­ing to a re­port from Reuters, which got briefed with an­a­lysts and re­porters on the pro­gram.

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