Wal-Mart

Paper Summary:

The paper discusses Wal-Mart's diversity and ethical issues in its global supply chain, such as ignoring social obligations to its workers by not offering healthcare insurance and using factories in Bangladesh that are guilty of child labor. The paper examines diversity at the store level and shows the influence of diversity planning in the more even mix of women and minorities in management and in the structure of its supply chains and operations of individual stores.

Outline:
Wal-Mart's Supply Chain: Where Diversity Needs To Start
Managing Diversity at the Store Level

From the Paper:

"When one considers the many challenges that Wal-Mart has in managing diversity, it is clear that this issue has been one of the major issues for the corporation. Managers today in Wal-Mart are being trained on using delegation and transformational leadership to increase the level of performance the company accomplishes on diversity programs and initiatives. Wal-Mart's impact on the global social fabric is already significant and becoming more pervasive. With this impact comes the responsibility to manage their corporations' many strategies, initiatives and plans with foresight as to the ethical aspects of their many activities from a diversity standpoint. Ethics and profits auto-correlate to one another, they are not mutually exclusive, and Wal-Mart is beginning to see this in their financial results."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Department of Labor, (2005). Agreement With Wal-Mart Indicates Need For Stronger Guidance and Procedures Regarding Settlement Agreements. Retrieved March 30, 2007 from the Web: http://www.democraticleader.house.gov/GM/DOL_ESA.pdf
• Fishman, C. (2003). Fast Company Magazine and Website (2003, December) The Wal-Mart You Don't Know. (article) New York, NY
• Global Ethics Office (2005). Wal-Mart Stores. Retrieved March 30, 2007. Web: http://walmartstores.com/GlobalWMStoresWeb/navigate.do?catg=8
• Richard Drogin, Ph. D. (2003) - STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF GENDER PATTERNS IN WAL-MART WORKFORCE, February, 2003 Drogin, Kakigi & Associates, Berkeley, CA 94705
• Wal-Mart Annual Reports 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006 - Accessed from Wal-Mart.com Investor Relations website on November 13, 2006.

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