Cummins Inc. 2007 Sustainability Report

Going back to
its earliest days,
Cummins has
been as much
about people as
products.
Governance
Corporate Governance
Over the past nearly 90 years, Cummins
has developed a reputation as a company
that places a premium on the well-being of
its employees and that strives to improve
the communities in which it operates.
Going back to its earliest days, when the
founding family kept the company afloat
during difficult times because it felt a
responsibility to provide jobs to the young
men of Columbus, Indiana, Cummins has
been as much about people as products.
That legacy was built by longtime former
Cummins Chairman J. Irwin Miller and is
carried out today through the leadership
of Cummins’ senior executives and
38,700 employees worldwide.
Cummins’ management and its
employees around the world continue
to work as partners today, building
leading-edge products in clean, safe
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environments, while working together
to strengthen the community.
“Creating a great place to work” is one of
Cummins’ strategic business principles.
At the core of that approach are the
Company’s efforts to engage employees
and other stakeholders in understanding
and living the Company’s values, as well as
playing an active role in pursuing continuous
improvement across the Company.
That engagement and commitment
to ethical behavior takes many forms,
some of which are discussed in the
pages that follow.
Cummins’ Revised
Code of Business Conduct
Cummins updated its Code of Business
Conduct in early 2008 for the first time