Corporate Social Responsibilities Assignment - BHP Billiton

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Executive Summary
This report is based on BHP Billiton's activities regarding corporate social responsibilities. BHP
Billiton is in the mining industry and its impacts on the environment and social activities. In this
report, the theoretical framework of corporate social responsibility has been discussed. In this
regard, Carroll's Pyramid and Wartick and Cochrane's Typology have been discussed. Corporate
social responsibility is associated with the corporate social performance of the company. The
analysis of the organisation BHP Billiton's corporate social responsibility has been aligned with
the key stakeholders' expectations. BHP Billiton has been facing the issues of CSR as they emit
greenhouse gases that harm the atmosphere. In addition, communities those are close to the
mining fields of BHP Billiton are in utter danger. Therefore, the organisation needs to take
actions to improve the planet, people and profit.

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Table of Contents
1. Introduction..................................................................................................................................3
2. Overview of BHP Billiton...........................................................................................................3
3. Theoretical understanding of CSR...............................................................................................5
4. Synthesis of theories with company’s CSR activities.................................................................7
5. Possible resolutions.....................................................................................................................9
6. Conclusions................................................................................................................................10
Reference List................................................................................................................................11

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1. Introduction
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is the effort taken by an organisation to improve
the condition of society in their way. As stated by De Villiers and Alexander (2014), CSR efforts
range from environment-friendly policies to donating money for the noble cause. CSR strategies
are taken by an organisation as advertisement technique to improve the public image. CSR
techniques also improve the media coverage and boost the employee engagement. The aim of the
report is to explore CSR activities and governance structure of BHP Billiton including the
theoretical framework of CSR and ethics. In the first section of the report, a short overview of
BHP Billiton is given stating the CSR activities. The theoretical framework of CSR is explained
and synthesis of theories with company performance is also given. This report states about CSR
issues of BHP Billion and its possible resolution.
2. Overview of BHP Billiton
BHP Billiton is an Anglo-Australian multinational company and this organisation
operates in metals, mining and petroleum. BHP Billiton has it headquarter in Melbourne and
London. BHP and Billiton were both separate companies and they merged up in the year 2001.
BHP Billiton is a dual-listed company (ASX: BHP and NYSE: BHP) and it serves worldwide
basis. Key products of BHP Billiton are iron ore, copper, natural gas, coal, petroleum, nickel and
uranium (Bhp.com 2018). In the year 2016, revenue of the BHP Billiton was AU$30 billion and
numbers of employees of BHP Billiton are 65,000.
Company’s CSR activities and Governance structure