...CIB100 ASSIGNMENT 2: BUSINESS SUBMISSION SEMESTER 2 2014 NAME: A Student STUDENT NUMBER: 12345678 STUDENT EMAIL: A.Student@student.curtin.edu.au TUTOR: Chris Bright TUTORIAL TIME: Friday 10-12 COMPANY: Telstra WORD COUNT: 1999 (excluding references) A. Student DIRECTOR OF CORPORATE COMMUNICATIONS TELSTRA CORPORATION OCTOBER 7 2014 OUR COMMITMENT As one of Australia’s leading telecommunications companies, with over 36 000 employees and the country’s most extensive mobile network, we at Telstra believe it is our duty to set the standard of corporate social responsibility, both in our industry and beyond. We are proud signatories of the United Nations Global Compact and endeavour to continually maintain, improve and expand our CSR programs to adhere to the Compact’s principles and fulfil the social contract we hold with our stakeholders. OBJECTIVES In this submission we will put forward our recommendations for obtaining compliance with the Global Compact principles two and seven. We will also outline our current efforts in these areas, proposed benchmarks, and the impact our recommendations will have on the stakeholders of companies that choose to implement them. PRINCIPLE 2 “Business should make sure that they are not complicit in human rights abuses.” – UN 2014 | PRINCIPLE 7 “Businesses should support a precautionary approach to environmental challenges.” – UN 2014 | LOCAL NETWORK SUBMISSION | TELSTRA CORP | 3 ...
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