Walmart Manages Ethics and Compliance Challenges

Due Week 3 and worth 200 points

Read "Case Study 3: Walmart Manages Ethics and Compliance  Challenges,"  Then, research and  read two or more articles related to Walmart and ethics.

Write a four to six (4-6) page paper in which you:

1. Examine the manner in which Walmart's business philosophy has  impacted its perception of being unethical towards supply and employee  stakeholders. Provide one (1) example of Walmart in an unethical  situation. 


2. Determine the major effects that Walmart's business philosophy has had on its human resource practices and policies. 


3. Analyze two (2) of the legal mandates that workers and U.S.  government has accused Walmart of violating. Provide an explanation as  to why these legal mandates were violated, citing specific violations. 


4. Evaluate the efficiency of the structure of the ethical  decision making framework that Walmart has used in making its decisions.  Provide a rationale for your response. 


5. Recommend two (2) actions that Walmart's Human Resources  Department should take in order to improve the employees' perspectives  of Walmart's human resources policies. Provide a rationale for your  recommendations. 


6. Go to https://research.strayer.edu  to locate at least three (3) quality academic resources in this  assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other similar Websites do not qualify as  academic resources. 

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double-spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12),  with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow  APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any  additional instructions. 


• Include a cover  page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the  professor's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the  reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.  

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Describe the business ethics issues and definitions, theories,  and frameworks important to organizational ethical decision making and  the role of a human resource professional. 


• Determine the role of stakeholder interests, the  interrelationship of ethics and social responsibility, and the role of  corporate governance in ethics. 


• Examine ethical issues and dilemmas in business. 


• Write clearly and concisely about issues in ethics and advocacy for HR professionals using correct grammar and mechanics. 


• Use technology and information resources to research issues in business ethics and advocacy for HR professionals. 

Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality,  logic / organization of the paper, and language and writing skills,  using the following rubric.