Texas Instruments

2008 Corporate Citizenship Report

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Corporate Citizenship Report

Values and ethics of TI




  • We work together with trust to achieve superior results.
  • We hire, promote and reward individuals without regard to race, color, religion, creed, disability, national origin, gender, gender identity and expression, age, sexual orientation, marital status, or veteran status.
  • We encourage open, honest and candid communications.
  • We maintain a professional work environment that is both satisfying and rewarding.
  • We give recognition and credit appropriately and frequently.
  • We respect all TIers without regard to their position or level within the organization.
    We understand that working together successfully may depend upon our willingness to trust someone else to take the lead.
  • We strive to win aggressively and do so with the highest standards of ethics.
  • We take responsible risks, managing those risks and learning from our experiences.
  • We promote workplace flexibility to make TI the employer of choice for the most creative and innovative people.
  • We seek out new perspectives and ideas through a diverse work force.
  • We recognize that we succeed or fail together.
"The key ingredient necessary for development and success is good leadership. People are motivated best by those leaders who are willing to give as well as take, to listen as well as talk to any member of the organization, to learn as well as teach, to be firm in their convictions and yet able to acknowledge error, and to tolerate failure that sometimes results from pursuing high-risk opportunities. In addition, good leaders must be willing to dream the big dream and be sensitive to maintaining the proper environment for creative thinking."

Erik Jonsson
Former Chairman, Texas Instruments – 1980



"Since productivity depends upon the performance of TI as a whole, we stress innovation not only in scientific and technical areas but also in marketing, in personnel relations, and in short, in all areas of the corporation."

Erik Jonsson
Former Chairman, Texas Instruments – 1980