Walmart (2014). Global Responsibility. Walmart Stores Inc. Retrieved April 19, 2014, from http://corporate.walmart.com/global-responsibility/
The official Walmart website details the company’s corporate responsibility initiatives ranging from general ethical concepts such as environmental sustainability to localized CSR issues like veterans and military families support initiatives. Walmart’s mission is to make lives better as outlined on the website and hence, their initiatives of creating more jobs, women empowerment and responsible sourcing; a work in improving the companies social image.
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (2014). Global Responsibility Report: The Responsibility to Lead. Retrieved April 19, 2014, from http://www.csrwire.com/press_releases/35509-Walmart- Highlights-Sustainability-Progress-in-its-2013-Global-Responsibility-Report
This report highlights Walmart’s CSR achievements during 2012 especially in its supply chain and regarding the environment. Importantly it reveals Walmart’s priority towards sustainability and its effects to their customers and the community. Emphasis is laid on its renewable energy use leading to energy efficiency and environmental sustainability, and compulsory sustainability certification for seafood suppliers.
O. C. Ferrell & John Fraedrich (2010).Business Ethics: Ethical Decision Making & Cases.
This book shows recent progress by American companies to improve their corporate social responsibility, Walmart included. The book analyses several companies to enable comparisons to be made, in their business ethics policies. Walmart has been identified to indulging especially in more environmentally friendly operations including, energy consumption efficient stores with minimal pollution.
Walmart Ethics Committee (2008). Walmart Statement of Ethics. Walmart Stores, Inc.
The report details Walmart’s ethics policies and how they affect both the employees and customers. The document outlines how an employee should conduct him/herself and conflict resolution approach. It also shows how company rules and regulations interact with national laws.
John Izzo (2011). What Walmart Teaches Us about CSR. Retrieved April 19, 2014, from http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/15/idUS338719572920110815
The article reveals Walmart’s underlying limitations to its CSR initiatives, for example, its ‘going green’ campaign was a PR move rather than an environmental concern for Walmart. Controversies such as discrimination against women and Walmart’s capability of sustaining its sustainability endeavors are but some of the issues tainting Walmart’s corporate social responsibility.
Prakash Sethi, (2012). The World of Wal-Mart. Retrieved April 19, 2014, from https://www.carnegiecouncil.org/publications/ethics_online/0081
This article stipulates Walmart’s CSR and ethical shortcomings in the recent past, some of gigantic scale that even lead to loss of lives. Discussed in this article are the Bangladesh garment factory disasters which claimed 1100 lives in 2013 alone, the company has been observed to having poor response to reports of worker mistreatment in its global supply chain.
