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This source is an article that appeared in the professional Journal, Academy of Management Perspectives. It provides a comparison of Wal-Mart and Costco from the perspective of their respective ethical approaches to various issues. Generally, the author contrasts the manner in which Wal-Mart takes unfair advantage of its market position with the way that Costco does not. Specifically, Wal-Mart pressure suppliers for prices that are too low to permit continual research and product development, which harms all stakeholders, including customers and supplying companies.
The author also details the way that Wal-Mart deliberately refuses to allow many part-time employees to work enough hours to qualify for employment benefits such as health insurance. According to the author, this approach allows Wal-Mart to profit at substantial expense to the general public because its part-time employees must rely on public programs and funds for various services that should rightfully be provided by the company.
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Range Leadership Model, Employee Outcomes, and Organizational Culture." Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 90 (2009):533 -- 547.
This source is an article that appeared in the peer-reviewed Journal of Business Ethics. It provides an analysis of the ways that managerial and organizational ethical values within management correspond to ethical values and compliance among employees. The authors determined that, in general, the employees of professional organizations whose executive management and corporate culture emphasize ethics in business tend to pay much greater attention to ethical issues than employees of professional organizations whose executive...
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