Walmart and Apple Research Paper
Business Finance
Evaluation of Your Organization’s Commitment to People and the Environment – Walmart
Purpose: For this option, you will be required to gather first-hand knowledge in order to analyze the strengths and weaknesses of discretionary activities taken by your firm as they relate to the domain of “corporate social and environmental responsibility.” You are encouraged to become familiar with both the people and the programs directly focused on this task through interviews and reviews of available documents. It will be useful to initially trace the history, scope and development of these commitments as they relate to your organization, its stakeholders, and the specific industry in which it operates. Through your interviews and research, you should carefully delineate any gaps you find between stated purposes and actual accomplishments, as well as potential ways to improve performance. Finally, you are asked to think creatively about your firm’s corporate social and environmental responsibility platform, and to suggest novel ways in which it could be realistically and successfully enhanced.
Note: This option must include a one-page addendum that will serve as an appendix.
Appendix For Option 2 – Apple Computers
Pick one firm from the list (and links) below. Become familiar with that firm’s publicly available descriptions and reports about its Corporate Social Responsibility activities. Do you think these programs present solid and credible information on how the firm serves the best interests of people and the environment? Where do you see unique strengths or identifiable weaknesses?
This analysis can be utilized as another basis of comparison as you evaluate your own organization’s commitment to corporate responsibility.
Apple – https://www.apple.com/environment/reports/
Format of research paper
- Firm and Industry Characteristics and History Relevant to Ethical Issues
- Formal Ethical and Legal Compliance Structures and Processes
- Current Ethical Climate
- Interviewee Perspectives
- Discussion
- Recommendations
Appendix
Please use the below chapters for concept and knowledge.
