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Company: Wal-Mart
Q1: What is the apical dilemma facing in this case? Do, WallMarts associates also faced ethical dilemma? If so, what is it?
Answer: Wac-Marts intent was to have a automated computer
system induction in the system to improve productivity by
scheduling tasks more efficiently, saving time and costs and
burden on the floor managers.
For this intent, Wald-Mart initiated a plan of getting the requires
system from Kronos to be installed and implemented is the work
scheduling process for lowering the cost and in return adding
these savings to its profit margins of the company.
Wall-Mart having approximately 1.4 million working locally in U.S,
and it is the biggest in taker of workforce in America. Its Retail
sales are staggering, close to $ 379 billion in the shape of sales
revue generated in January 31, 2008.
Its productivity was attained through creating lower operational
costs and low prices, supplemented by its excellent inventory and
stock control management system.
However, in 2007-08, , the company tried to further lower the
operational costs, by creating changes through bring in a new
system based on automated computerized scheduling system for
improving efficiency in work related scheduling and control
systems.
Q2. What ethical principles apply to this case? How they apply?
Answer: Wal-Mart has broken the basics principles of employers
ethics towards its over 140,000 workforce, by bringing them
(Mielach, 2012),
when most
The public and general citizens were not happy with such
practices of Wal-Mart, and this situation prevailed was cited as a
total contradiction and violation of Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914,
which clearly states that The labor of a human being is not a
commodity or an article of commerce.
References
Blodget, H. (2010, September 20). Walmart Employs 1% of America. Should it be
Forced to Pay its Employees More. Retrieved June 09, 2013, from Business Insider:
http://www.businessinsider.com/walmart-employees-pay
Sources
Sources: Vanessa OConnell, Retailers Reprogram Workers in Efficiency Push, The Wall
Street Journal, September 10, 2008; Kris Maher, Wal-Mart Seeks New Flexibility in Worker
Shifts, The Wall Street Journal, January 3, 2007; www.kronos.com, accessed July 15, 2008;
Bob Evans, Wal-Marts Latest Orwellian Technology Move: Get Over It, InformationWeek,
April 6, 2007 and More Opinions on Wal-Marts Flexible Scheduling, InformationWeek, April
17, 2007
O'Donnell, H. M. (2012, June 08). Some Walmart Workers want Better Wages,
Affordable Benefits. Retrieved Jun3 09, 2013, from USA Today:
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/money/industries/retail/story/2012-06-05/walmartworkers-air-complaints/55450634/