Walmart and Its Associates Efficient Operator or Neglectful Employer
Table of Contents
Introduction: Ethical Issues 3 Employee compensation issues 3 Alleged Sexual Discrimination 4 Dominance Policies 4 Unionisation 5 Wal-Mart: Past and new allegations 5 Conclusion 6 References 7
Introduction: Ethical Issues (Appendix A) Wal-Mart had been criticized for its worst CSR practices which includes low wages for the employees (Karen, 2004). Immoral activity of paying low for more and the overtime works had been held (Karen, 2004) .The quantitative records of designations in the company showed that Wal-Mart had sexual discrimination in its organization (The Economist, 2004). Lastly, severely opposing formation of the union formation within the organization which include aggressive policies for union avoidance. Employee compensation issues (Wages)
Wal-Mart failed to follow the stakeholder theory, in which the firm should possess moral and ethical responsibility over its employees. The lower salary to the workers for their prolong work was never justify under the management action. Kantianism states that pushing the labourers to work beyond their time bound may affect their social and personal life, thus it is not ethical. The sexual discrimination was the most abhorrent practice persisted: in which the promotions and high remunerative were reduced to women. The moral firm’s action should mind the corporate social responsiveness over their primary Stakeholders i.e) employees but Wal-Mart did not maintain the CSR properly.
Work off-the-clock is the moral practice is being follow in modern world by the companies to raise their bottomline. Dominance model of the firm amorally force the workers to work without the valuable benefits. Wal-Mart accepted to pay $ 4.83 million to workers for their overtime work (Hines, 2012). It’s critical to justifying that employees need to work until work has been done. It is completely based on the management model of the company. In some firms appointees were given with minimal
Introduction: Ethical Issues 3 Employee compensation issues 3 Alleged Sexual Discrimination 4 Dominance Policies 4 Unionisation 5 Wal-Mart: Past and new allegations 5 Conclusion 6 References 7
Introduction: Ethical Issues (Appendix A) Wal-Mart had been criticized for its worst CSR practices which includes low wages for the employees (Karen, 2004). Immoral activity of paying low for more and the overtime works had been held (Karen, 2004) .The quantitative records of designations in the company showed that Wal-Mart had sexual discrimination in its organization (The Economist, 2004). Lastly, severely opposing formation of the union formation within the organization which include aggressive policies for union avoidance. Employee compensation issues (Wages)
Wal-Mart failed to follow the stakeholder theory, in which the firm should possess moral and ethical responsibility over its employees. The lower salary to the workers for their prolong work was never justify under the management action. Kantianism states that pushing the labourers to work beyond their time bound may affect their social and personal life, thus it is not ethical. The sexual discrimination was the most abhorrent practice persisted: in which the promotions and high remunerative were reduced to women. The moral firm’s action should mind the corporate social responsiveness over their primary Stakeholders i.e) employees but Wal-Mart did not maintain the CSR properly.
Work off-the-clock is the moral practice is being follow in modern world by the companies to raise their bottomline. Dominance model of the firm amorally force the workers to work without the valuable benefits. Wal-Mart accepted to pay $ 4.83 million to workers for their overtime work (Hines, 2012). It’s critical to justifying that employees need to work until work has been done. It is completely based on the management model of the company. In some firms appointees were given with minimal
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