Walmart and Apple Research Paper

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.