The Bosch values

1. Future and Result Focus
“In order to ensure dynamic development of our company and to guarantee long-term corporate success, we participate in shaping the changes in markets and technologies. By doing so, we provide our customers with innovative solutions and our associates with attractive jobs. We act result-focused in order to secure growth and financial independence. With the dividends generated, the Robert Bosch Foundation supports charitable activities.”

2. Responsibility
“We accept that our actions must accord with the interests of society. Above all else, we place our products and services in the interests of the safety of people, the economic use of resources, and environmental sustainability.”

3. Initiative and Determination
“We act on our own initiative, with an entrepreneurial but accountable spirit, and demonstrate determination in pursuing our goals.”

4. Openness and Trust
“We inform our associates, business partners, and investors in a timely and open fashion of important developments within our company. This is the best basis for a trustful relationship.”

5. Fairness
“We view mutual fairness as a condition of our corporate success when dealing with each other and with our business partners.”

6. Reliability, Credibility, and Legality
“We promise only what we can deliver, accept agreements as binding, and respect and observe the law in all our business transactions.”

7. Cultural Diversity
“We are aware of our company's regional and cultural origins and at the same time regard diversity as an asset, as well as a precondition of our global success.”