Assignment: Stakeholders and Corporate Responsibility
Length: 2 to 3 pages.
Overview:
Corporate responsibility toward consumers should guide all companies. Businesses have legal and moral obligations to provide their consumers with safe products without using false advertising and without doing harm to the environment. Ethical companies also practice fair and equitable hiring and employment practices. These case studies address unethical and occasionally illegal practices some companies have engaged in.
Instructions: See the following case study and use the questions to guide your response:
Case Study: Wal-Mart: Challenges with Gender Discrimination
i. Provide a summary of the issues Wal-Mart has faced with gender discrimination using both this case study and an article you locate on the topic published in the last 6 months.
ii. What arguments would Wal-Mart offer to counter the plaintiffs' allegations?
iii. Explain how the outcome of Dukes v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. is important for major stakeholders in the case, including the American society and expectations of corporate responsibility.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
i) The answer should be typed, using Times New Roman font (size 12), double spaced, with one-inch margins on all sides.
ii) The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
iii) Also include a reference page. The Citations and references must follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.