Analysis of Telstra's Sustainable Policies and Practices

This report analyzes Telstra's sustainable policies, focusing on environmental legislation, regulations, and codes of practice. It examines the importance of sustainability for businesses, especially considering population growth, technological advancements, and environmental degradation. The report identifies internal and external sources of information influencing sustainability policies and details the policy development process and practices followed by Telstra. It also explores organizational systems and procedures related to sustainability, highlighting initiatives like community grants. Furthermore, the report addresses barriers to implementing strategies, such as e-waste management and digital inclusion. The report concludes by suggesting three easily adoptable sustainable ideas: creating green spaces, promoting a recycling culture, and managing energy consumption. These strategies can be promoted through advertisements and stakeholder communication to enhance business practices.

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Task 1:
Environmental and Sustainable Legislation, Regulations and Codes of Practice.
Sustainability is a broad discourse, and with the increase of population, technological
advancements and increased global expansion and environmental degradation, the practice of
sustainability by the business houses, is increasingly becoming important. Therefore, as per
the sociologists and the business analysts, it is difficult to maintain the corporate
responsibilities, without the maintenance of proper legislations. Therefore, the business
houses must be abided by the political rules that are uphold and circulated by the political
bodies of a country.
Therefore, Telstra also includes the certain codes of conducts. The organization has a
vested interest that includes the organization intersect and the individual interest of all the
employees. The organization also focuses on honesty and integrity, and do not make or
receive improper payments, benefits or gains, and work towards privacy protection. The
organization do not include in the acts of bribery and corruption. The organization also
involves into a behavioural code of conduct, which involves an involved communication
process. All the members and the employees are involved in the communication process and
the importance is given to everyone, in the decision making method ("Code of Conduct
Living our Values", 2017). The sustainable legislation of the company include the ethical
business practices, equal pay process, and other social responsibilities. All the sustainable
activities made by the organization include the political legislation, practiced by the
constitutional and political bodies of the organization.

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Identify internal and external sources of information.
The external communication channels of the organization includes the wholesalers,
the news agents, the advertisements and the sales people, the census figures, the trade
journals and the survey maps of the organization.
The internal communication sources involve the stakeholders, the internal audits, the
cash flow system, the distribution channels, the performance reviews and the production,
operational and documentation, processes and information related to the same ("Telstra -
Responsible Business - Community & Environment", 2019).
Impact of internal and external source of information on the sustainability
policy.
The internal and external source of information influence the sustainable approaches
of the organization. For example, the external sources influence the system of innovation, and
the business policies of the organization towards a more sustainable planning. The internal
source of information influence upon the decision process of the organization (Robertson, &
Barling, 2013). The approaches and decisions of sustainable development planning is
influenced by the internal sources, therefore, thus, both these processes and systems of
information influence the sustainable approaches of the organization.
Policy Development Process and Practices.
In order to implement and practice the sustainable policies the organization follows the
underwritten steps.
 Defining the problem and understanding the related areas of issue.
 Conducting research and developing solutions.
 Developing decisions, consulting with the stakeholders and the management
department.

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 Preparing a draft policy, and adopting the draft policy into the organizational structure
and system of communication.
 Involving a person to communicate about the procedure to the employees and the
external agents (Corporation, 2019).
All the steps involved by the organization, is concerned about detailing and planning.
Organizational Systems and Procedures related to Sustainability.
The prime sustainable goals of the organization is to maintain a gender equality,
promoting sustainable economic growth within the country, taking urgent steps to battle the
environmental and climatic degraded conditions. Therefore to account to all these the
organization involves and community development program and also, is aiming to better eth
corporate structure and the governance policies within the organizational structure. Tee
organization is also involving corporate practices to improve the economic and the social
attributes. One excellent example is the community grants for the Telstra Kids. Through this
funding approach, the organization encourage each of its employees to find kinds in their
local areas, who are in need, and then reach out to them and help them with the necessary
requirements.
Barriers to Implement the Strategies.
One of the major barrier to Telstra was to manage the e- wastes. Recycling and
recovering the electronic goods and battling their impacts on the health and environment, is
the biggest challenge that Telstra is currently facing, which is affecting its sustainable goals.
Also, the organization is facing challenges related to these digital inclusion. The
organization has partnered with two universities to undertake the Digital Inclusion Index, by
which the organization is aiming to approach accessibility, affordability and digital ability.

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However, the recent market share and the growing competition in the market is posing a
barrier to the organization, for the inclusion of the right methods to approach these areas.
Task 2:
The three most important and easy to adopt sustainable ideas are, creating green Spaces
within the organizational structure, including a recycling attitude, and managing the energy
level of the office.
a. All these attributes can easily be included and incorporated within any business
organizations, small- medium or large. These are the most basic sustainable habits and
should be included in all the workplaces (Katzeff et al., 2013).
b. Firstly, making the workplace a green place can be included by involving a positive
work environment, keeping the area more open, and practicing environmental
sustainable approaches, intro the organizational conducts. Secondly, creating a
recycling culture within the work place. Use of the recycling waste boxes can prove to
be very helpful in that manner. Thirdly, conserving energy, is also a very simple deed
and can easily be incorporated. The energy level of the equipment involved in the
office should be kept in control (Totterdill, & Exton, 2014). The energy consumption
of the office must be checked specially during the holidays and there should be a limit
set, on order to manage this attribute and also to manage the electricity bill.
c. These attributes or strategies of the organization can further be promoted through
advertisements, and thorough organization a relationships. Practicing a green habit is
very sustainable for an organization and can be effective for the same to increase its
business base. The impacts of such a behaviour can further communicated through the
stakeholders by the revenue report and the annual business report (Jilcha, & Kitaw,
2017).

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