5. Course of action and personal suggestions
I personally respect the seriousness of the virus. I stay home and order groceries delivery to reduce the chance of meeting people. I think Wal-Mart’s decision are tactical but needs more care about their worker. In this ethical situation, follow up their workers’ healthiness situation is important – showing they care about workers rather than treating them like data can effectively reduce social panic. Comparing the policies they have currently, they paid leave workers without further follow-up, providing more care about their lives is more impact to workers and is able to let them feel the positive atmosphere of society. Thus, worker will spread the positive energy to their family and friends.
Moreover, workers should treat their healthiness as first priority instead of working. One concept we mentioned in class: reducing personal responsibility from Moral Disengagement: displacement of responsibility would apply to this. The worker who has low salaries are staying an attitude which the supervisor made me do it. They, therefore, don’t realize the seriousness of virus spreading and blame on the company.
The Corona-virus’ Impact on Wal-Mart (Cont.4)
4. Social Response According to previous blog, we can see the hard work they have made to keep customers and faculties aware importance of social distancing. From social network sites, I can see that a few people are staying positive, but most are negatives. Some of them don’t understand the seriousness, showing aggressive attitude towards…
The Corona-virus’ Impact on Wal-Mart (Cont.3)
3. Wal-Mart’s action When we go into Wal-Mart’s official website, we can see at the top of site that there is a yellow bar. It claims the changes they have made in order to provides more convenience and benefits to customers in current situation. They listened to many customers’ advice, supporting delivery and set many…
The Corona-virus’ Impact on Wal-Mart (Cont.2)
2. introducing Wal-Mart Wal-Mart Inc. is an American multinational retail enterprise headquartered in Bentonville, Arkansas. It is the first in the ranking of the world’s largest 500 companies selected by the US “Fortune” magazine in 2014-2018. It is also the world’s largest private employer, with more than two million employees, and is the world’s largest…
Nelson Lu 
Yes, I quite agree with you.As you said, it is important to follow up on the health of employees, which will show that they care about their employees rather than treating them like data can effectively reduce social panic.As a large multinational retailer, it is not only responsible for its employees, but also for the whole society.
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Thank you for your comments. When we firstly think about Amazon, the first words come up is they strict to employee but low seriousness. However, Wal-Mart treated worker is even less serious. I like how you comment “it is not only responsible for its employees, but also for the whole society.” Yes, they responsible for employees, customers, stockholders, anyone related to Wal-Mart Co.
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