Teleus Ethical Issues

TELUS’s quarterly report released in May, cited dividends rising eleven and a half cents per share from a year ago, as well as divulging plans to increase that share price ten percent annually through 2016, and prompted a share purchase program that will be worth an estimated two billion dollars by 2016. Putting the financial facts aside, for a company that has all the makings to be a perfect fit for the economic model, Telus goes above and beyond to meet the triple bottom line, as a corporation that contributes economically, environmentally and socially.

With over thirteen million customers Telus is a national telecommunications company that covers skews in a variety of fields including, telecommunications, television, and Internet. As
In their CSR release in 2013, Telus says that 100% of their team members have taken an integrity course in regards too, ethics, privacy, security, respect and bribery. Telus goes on to address their strict ethics policy, how ethical complaints are handled and the actions taken after the complaint has been filed. Even though there was a high of 183 complaints in 2012, all was handled accordingly. Upon speaking with an employee in a corporate branch in Telus I was informed that the integrity course is overstated in the CSR review that Telus annually publishes. “I never took a course educating me on my integrity obligations as a Telus employee, but they definitely endorse honestly, teamwork and a safe and secure work environment; for both the staff and the customers” said Telus employee Sam Rau-Chaplin. He went on to describe the way Telus is the ideal place to work, down to the application they install on every employee’s phone that lets them communicate and get messages passed down from management
This surpassed my expectations, before I conducted research, knowing only on the Telus Health endeavor. Considering the 4.2 million hours contributed to community environment, there is no arguing that Telus is very serious when is comes to their social responsibility and meeting the task head on. My findings have encouraged me to not only support Telus in all its efforts to give back to the community, but opened my eyes to what a difference a corporation can make when they devote themselves to not only maximizing profit, but to bettering the world in which they