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 |

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Through this submission we hope to encourage other Australian companies to take a proactive approach to CSR and improve their business practice to further abide by the principles of the Global Compact. We are well placed to achieve this as we have been a member of the Compact since 2011. We are also part of Australia’s first Human Rights Working Group for Business (set up by this network in 2010