EthicScan examines behaviour, not espoused values. It provides low cost, high quality, independent ratings on 1500 companies across ten different categories of social responsibility. The criteria used are determined by 60 Canadian experts from such fields as business, union rights, environmental considerations, women's legal action advocates, journalists, and others.

EthicScan's grading system can be seen in the section of this site dealing with the modified Delphi. EthicScan grades performance of organizations and companies within different performance categories, but not overall. It is misleading and potentially dangerous to trade off good performance in one category (such as diversity and equity) versus bad in another (such as sourcing and trading). EthicScan's Rating Reports provide grades in each performance category by company, sector and the entire DataBase.

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