Business activities contribute to economic development and have an impact on society and the environment. Relationships with consumers, suppliers, employees, and investors are varied; the overall significance of the effect of products, services, and all corporate activities are enormous. There has been long discussion in Europe about how to achieve a situation in which not only companies but also the wider public and community would benefit from business activities. In particular, it is said that economic development should be sustainable and the impact on society and the environment mainly positive. Corporate social responsibility is gradually becoming an important topic of discussion in Turkey as well..
Turk Telekom is one of the companies which are transferring resources to social responsibility projects. They seperate their invests to five main social responsibility topics.
a) Environment
b) Education
c) Arts & Culture
d) Technology
e) Sports
a) ENVIRONMENT
The company is not standing ignorant to global warming and the environmental disasters which begun to affect our daily lives and aiming to share such awareness with e-bill service. Bills are sending to the e-mails or to cell phones as SMSs.
Their aim is to prevent wasting large amounts of paper with this Project and contribute to the Turkish economy. They also are supporting forestation of Turkey as they planted 100.000 trees during 2008.
b) EDUCATION
They have chosen Education as their priority of investing in the social responsibility area. The company is making the students and the teachers benefit from the opportunities of Internet and computers with coope ...