Case 1: Walmart: The Main Street Merchant of Doom
Submityour responses to the following case in a Word document. Be sure tofollow APA 7th guidelines. Please answer the questions completely.
**All cases can be found at the end of the textbook**
Please answer the following questions:
1. What are the major issues in this case? What does Walmarts experience tell you about the business and society relationship?
2.Assess Walmarts corporate social responsibility using the four-partCSR model. For example, is Walmart socially responsible even though ithas had a devastating impact on many small merchants?
3.What about Walmarts impact on communities in terms of sprawl, trafficcongestion, and impact on the environment’s appearance? Whatresponsibility, if any, does the company have to the communities itenters?
4.Sam Walton has been called a motivational genius. After reading thiscase, and with what you have observed at your local Walmart store, doyou think the associates still feel his motivational genius? What is theWalmart Way? How would you characterize the stores culture now thatSam is no longer visiting the stores?
5.Walmart was an early leader in the area of corporate socialresponsibility. Is the companys detrimental impact on merchants offsetby the benefits of its recent corporate citizenship and sustainabilityinitiatives?
6.Walmart continues to resist its expansion into New England and someparts of the United States. What are the true goals of the opponents ofWalmart? Include a consideration of the following: (a) stoppingWalmarts expansion, (b) preserving the status quo (e.g., downtowncommunity and social fabric), (c) developing a cause that will pay theirbills, (d) fighting for an ideology, or (e) something else. What shouldWalmart do when it encounters resistance?
7.With Walmart now having to close stores due to the economy and/orcompetition, does it have any social responsibilities to the communitiesit is leaving? If so, what would those responsibilities be?
8.When you are the largest company globally, how do you protect yourselfagainst the kind of criticism Walmart has received? Does it seem that nomatter how hard you try, it is difficult to make things better?
