Ethics and Your Business: Olympic’s Values Worth Emulating

Olympic Steel’s commitment to ethical behavior is as much about how employees should treat each other as it is about how the company should conduct business with the outside world, says company Chairman and CEO Michael Siegal.

Employees communicate periodically with customers and vendors, but they interact with each other every day, so what happens inside the four walls of the company is most important, Siegal says. “From a management perspective, it [Olympic’s ethics policy] is really about how we expect everyone to act. It’s not only what you do but how you do it that matters.”