Walmart
Wal-Mart Ethical Issue
[2013]
By
Sara O. Alahmad
Sara Alsolai
Mona Alsaif
Qumasha Altassan
Tala Mandou
Introducing Wal-Mart and its History: Nowadays it is difficult to found a new business and turn it into worldwide cooperation. It needs several steps to create and maintain a successful business. One of the biggest most successful and important cooperation in the world is Wal-Mart which was founded by Sam Walton in 1962. The first branch opened in Rogers Arkansas. Today, Wal-Mart operates more than 10,700 retail units under 69 banners in 27 countries. And these countries are: Argentina, Botswana, Brazil, Canada, Chile China, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Ghana, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Japan, Lesotho, Malawi, Mexico, Mozambique, Namibia, Nicaragua, Nigeria, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States, and Zambia. We employ 2.2 million associates around the world, 1.4 million in the U.S. alone.
Summary
Introducing the ethical issues: This case study report is about the ethical frame work within which Wal-Mart, a multinational convenience store, operates in and about the ethical challenges faced by it over the years. It also analyses how the company has reacted to the challenges with a view of recreating perceptions and ensuring sustainability in the future. It considers the actions taken by management to mitigate a perceived likelihood of consumer and employee upheavals as well as continuing numbers of law suits as a result of the company’s ethical infractions. Based on the analysis of the case study presented the provisional analysis and recommendation is reported upon in this paper. Our findings indicate that the actions and policies affected by management after the ethical issues arose had an objective of covering up larger infractions as well as to create a smokescreen that the issues had been resolved (John Fraedrich, 2010). This was and has been achieved consistently through paid for publicity in
[2013]
By
Sara O. Alahmad
Sara Alsolai
Mona Alsaif
Qumasha Altassan
Tala Mandou
Introducing Wal-Mart and its History: Nowadays it is difficult to found a new business and turn it into worldwide cooperation. It needs several steps to create and maintain a successful business. One of the biggest most successful and important cooperation in the world is Wal-Mart which was founded by Sam Walton in 1962. The first branch opened in Rogers Arkansas. Today, Wal-Mart operates more than 10,700 retail units under 69 banners in 27 countries. And these countries are: Argentina, Botswana, Brazil, Canada, Chile China, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Ghana, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Japan, Lesotho, Malawi, Mexico, Mozambique, Namibia, Nicaragua, Nigeria, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States, and Zambia. We employ 2.2 million associates around the world, 1.4 million in the U.S. alone.
Summary
Introducing the ethical issues: This case study report is about the ethical frame work within which Wal-Mart, a multinational convenience store, operates in and about the ethical challenges faced by it over the years. It also analyses how the company has reacted to the challenges with a view of recreating perceptions and ensuring sustainability in the future. It considers the actions taken by management to mitigate a perceived likelihood of consumer and employee upheavals as well as continuing numbers of law suits as a result of the company’s ethical infractions. Based on the analysis of the case study presented the provisional analysis and recommendation is reported upon in this paper. Our findings indicate that the actions and policies affected by management after the ethical issues arose had an objective of covering up larger infractions as well as to create a smokescreen that the issues had been resolved (John Fraedrich, 2010). This was and has been achieved consistently through paid for publicity in
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