Code of Conduct for Stockland: Governance, Ethics, and Sustainability

Running head: CODE OF CONDUCT 0
governnace, ethics and sustainability
JANUARY 2, 2019

CODE OF CONDUCT 1
Introduction
The code of conduct is the set of the rules describing the social standards,
rules related to religious and accountabilities of, and or proper exercises
for the individuals. The code of conduct that is written for the workers of
company, protects the business and renders the information to the
employees regarding the expectations of the workers. In the following
parts, the code of conduct of Stockland is examined. The Stockland is
devoted to rendering the social contribution, economic contribution and
environmental contribution to the society, constant principles regarding
the honesty, equality, fairness and honour. The company’s board had
followed code to provide the set of guiding the principles observed by the
workers of the companies. Employees of Stockland are expected by
company to perform continuously with principles set in the code.
Overview of company
In Australia, Stockland is top expanded real estate group with 18.2 $
billion of real estate assets. Stockland provides the housing solution. This
company handle and establish the retail centre, offices, and logistics
asset. The vision of the company is to be the top real estate entity of the
Australia, which creates the useful and significant support to the
communities and nation. It is founded in year 1952. Now the company
influence theexpanded model to support make prospering communities
with lively civic centres in which individuals reside and do job.
Code of conduct of Stockland-
The code of conduct of the Stockland is examined as follows-

CODE OF CONDUCT 2
Discrimination
The organisation is dedicated towards creating a workplace environment
that is free from isolation, hostility and stands on the principle of the
mutual respect towards each other, cooperation, discipline and dignity.
Thus, the entity complies with the various state and federal legislations
along with the national regulations like Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth).
As per the definition laid down in the various acts, the discrimination
refers to the act of treating an individual favourable or unfavourable
based on the various physical, cultural, and political attributes. The
various characteristics that lead to the initiation of the discriminatory
behaviour and makes the employment against the law are the physical or
mental disability, colour, ethnicity, race, caste, nationality, sexual status,
pregnancy or marital status, origin, religion, sex, gender identity, age and
others.
It is significant to note that the discriminatory behaviour can arise at
various levels of the employment chain. Such as during the hiring process,
conduct of the interviews, distribution of the tasks, initiation of the
promotion or leadership positions, and other such operations within an
organisation (Gaze and Smith, 2016). In addition, the selection of
individuals for training purposes based on the attributes as listed above
also falls in the ambit of the discriminatory behaviour.
Therefore, it is the responsibility of the leaders, employees and every
other member to not to engage in such conversations or acts that make
the work environment hostile and unhealthy for other employees. The

CODE OF CONDUCT 3
senior management of companyensures that the different facets of the
employer employee relationships are free from personal bias based on the
characteristics mentioned above, and are based on individual capabilities,
merit, and reasonability. The individuals, who are found to be guilty of
breaching the discrimination guidelines, would be liable to corrective
actions as per the decision of the management.
Exploitation
The exploitation refers to the communal word, which involves different
unreasonable behaviour and attitude such as physical and psychological
harassment (Reamer, 2013). Stockland never tolerate unlawful views,
worker exploitation repression, trouble, or other invalid conduct.
. The company creates secure working environment by-
1. Assisting and doing work with collaboration
2. Ensure that company does not encourage exploitation against
workers
3. Making sure that company does not persecute the team or others at
workstation
4. Providing secured working condition
5. Making decisions in respect of the employment on the basis of
presentations.
Further, this is required by the workers of Stockland to-
1. Report the problems related to security
2. stand for the procedures related to security