Wal-Marts Women Case Study Social Resposnsibility of busines

The case of Wal-Mart’s women will affect Wal-Mart financially. It may require Wal-Mart to pay some amount of money to its female employees or at least to pay settlement money to resolve the problem. Some people who strongly support gender equality may protest Wal-Mart which will harm its reputation, which will have an impact on the business’s future. By paying the settlement payment or the compensation, Wal-Mart will lose its money or assets it may have taken from its profit. So, it will result in less prompting investment for the investors, moreover when there is no guarantee that such thing will not happen again in the future. Wal-Mart should have paid a compensation fee to the women employee but not at the cost of firing workers and closing stores. If this is the only option, it would be best for Wal-Mart to negotiate the compensation amount so that it would not affect Wal-Mart’s financial health so detrimentally. Firing workers and closing stores would create new problems for a whole new group of people such as unemployment, losing a major source of revenue that could lead to a capital flight, which could potentially require Wal-Mart to pay severance pay to its workers who were fired. What factors do you think might account for the discrepancies the Drogin report uncovered? The Drogin report revealed that there were discriminations against female employees in Wal-Mart (Velasquez, M. 2017). The study showed that although the female employees were This study source was downloaded by from CourseH on :38:02 GMT -06:00 more skilled and worked longer working hours, their wages were smaller compared to the male employees. Women at Wal-Mart needed longer working experience than men to get a promotion. These discriminations happened because of the subjective assessment by the supervisor, the stereotypical thinking, lack of the gender equality recognition, and no appropriate guidelines or policies regarding objective performance assessment and discrimination. The subjective assessment of evaluating each worker performance is caused by the lack of guidelines and policies regarding the assessment activity. The supervisors, who are mainly men, may be unintentionally biased towards male employees. The stereotypical thinking that men are better than women and that women are not suited to work because women should stay home and take care of the home and children, which is a rationalization for the supervisor to discriminate the female workers. The lack of gender equality recognition can be caused by the stereotypical thinking, which can the discrimination worse. The missing policy about the discrimination punishment is likely the cause of the discriminator to continue discriminating the female employees. What, if anything, do you think Wal-Mart should do to correct these discrepancies? Should the company institute an affirmative action promotion program for female employees? If so, what should this program be like? Wal-Mart should give raises to the qualified women, make a key performance indicators for each position of workers, establish a guideline on how to assess employees’ performance, create a policy regarding the wage amount and the working hour, objectively measure and assess the promotion opportunity, implement new company culture explaining that there is no tolerance for any kind of discrimination so that all workers know and are aware of the discrimination that should not happen in the company. The raises for the female staff are to amend the discrimination action but to stay fair, the raise will only be given to those who are This study source was downloaded by from CourseH on :38:02 GMT -06:00 truly deserve and have earned it. The KPIs and the guidelines to assess performance are made to assist the supervisor in assessing each worker’s performance. The objective measurement of each employee will then be compared to other employees’ performance to consider the candidates to be given the promotion. The policy related to the wage and working hour will give a transparency on how working hour is also affecting the wage amount so that the staffs are all aware of it. The company’s new culture and the punishment policy is to raise awareness of the members of the company and prevent any kind discrimination to happen.