Rotary Club of Altrincham
Founded 1929 - Member of Rotary International - District 1050
www.altrinchamrotary.org.uk
Rotary is a worldwide organization of business and professional people that provides humanitarian service and encourages high ethical standards in all vocations.
“Service Above Self”
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From the earliest days of the organisation, Rotarians have been concerned with promoting high ethical standards in their professional lives. One of the world's most widely printed and quoted statements of business ethics is The 4-Way Test, which was created in 1932 by Rotarian Herbert J. Taylor when he was asked to take charge of a company that was facing bankruptcy.
This short test for employees to follow in their business and professional lives became the guide for sales, production, advertising, and all relations with dealers and customers, and the survival of the company is credited to this simple philosophy.
Adopted by Rotary in 1943, The 4-Way Test has been translated into more than a hundred languages and published in thousands of ways. It asks the following four questions:
"Of the things we think, say or do:
1. Is it the TRUTH?
2. Is it FAIR to all concerned?
3. Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
4. Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?"
See also the Object of Rotary - our "mission statement".