Wal-Marts Women Case Study Social Resposnsibility of busines
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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 reput...
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CASE STUDY
Caleb “Cubby” Dahlgren
Wal-Mart's Women: Case Study
MGMT380 Social Responsibility of Business
What financial impact do you think the lawsuit could potentially have on Wal-Mart? What
if the outcome of the case cost Wal-Mart so much it had to lay off thousands of its workers
and close stores?
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
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