Walmart Manages Ethics and Compliance Challenges
Walmart Manages Ethics and Compliance Challenges
Regina Fernanders
Professor Ziegler
Ethics and Advocacy for HR Professionals
April 26, 2015
Walmart Manages Ethics and Compliance Challenges
Examine the manner in which Walmart’s business philosophy has impacted its perception of being unethical towards supply and employee stakeholders. Provide one example of Walmart in an unethical situation. Wal-Mart stores, Inc. is the world’s largest retail enterprise. It is also the world’s largest employer. Mr. Walton the founder of Walmart always believed that customer service and low pricing where the main ingredients for a successful company. Mr. Walton had a 10 foot rule from the beginning which meant that if his employees where within 10 feet from a customer that they must greet the customer and ask if help was needed. He also believed that you shouldn’t wait for tomorrow what you could do today. During past years Walmart has changed Mr. Walton’s philosophy by trying to make everybody happy instead of keeping with the original mantra. Walmart started to compete with other retailers and started to raise prices and remove certain items that Walmart originally sold. One unethical situation that Walmart was involved in is their reluctance to be unionized. Walmart went out of their way to threaten workers not to join unions or they would be terminated. Another unethical decision Walmart made was hiring people as part time workers so they would not have to pay medical benefits, also by making employees only eligible for benefits if they work 30 hours or more, and when they fell short of 30 hours they would lose their benefits.
Determine the major effects that Walmart’s business philosophy has had on its human resource practices and policies. Walmart’s human resource department is also known as the people division. Wal-Mart employs more than two million employees around the globe. There are many business risks that the HR department encounters as any given
Regina Fernanders
Professor Ziegler
Ethics and Advocacy for HR Professionals
April 26, 2015
Walmart Manages Ethics and Compliance Challenges
Examine the manner in which Walmart’s business philosophy has impacted its perception of being unethical towards supply and employee stakeholders. Provide one example of Walmart in an unethical situation. Wal-Mart stores, Inc. is the world’s largest retail enterprise. It is also the world’s largest employer. Mr. Walton the founder of Walmart always believed that customer service and low pricing where the main ingredients for a successful company. Mr. Walton had a 10 foot rule from the beginning which meant that if his employees where within 10 feet from a customer that they must greet the customer and ask if help was needed. He also believed that you shouldn’t wait for tomorrow what you could do today. During past years Walmart has changed Mr. Walton’s philosophy by trying to make everybody happy instead of keeping with the original mantra. Walmart started to compete with other retailers and started to raise prices and remove certain items that Walmart originally sold. One unethical situation that Walmart was involved in is their reluctance to be unionized. Walmart went out of their way to threaten workers not to join unions or they would be terminated. Another unethical decision Walmart made was hiring people as part time workers so they would not have to pay medical benefits, also by making employees only eligible for benefits if they work 30 hours or more, and when they fell short of 30 hours they would lose their benefits.
Determine the major effects that Walmart’s business philosophy has had on its human resource practices and policies. Walmart’s human resource department is also known as the people division. Wal-Mart employs more than two million employees around the globe. There are many business risks that the HR department encounters as any given