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Subject of the paper: Wallmart to Pay $550 Million in Bonuses
Requirement: Using Rule consequentialism to evaluate:Coronavirus Crisis: Walmart to Pay $550 Million in Bonuses
Rule consequentialism holds that the rightness of an act depends not on the goodness of its consequences, but on whether or not it is in accordance with a certain code of rules, which has been selected for its good consequences
4 page, double space
1. An introductory paragraph in which you introduce the paper, explain what you will do in the paper, and state a thesis.
2. A case description of the business ethics controversy you will evaluate. You may (but need not) supplement our course readings with 2-3 sources, such as periodical articles, on your topic.
3. An ethical evaluation in which you use your ethical theory to explain what would be the right thing to do in the case.
4. An objection to the ethical evaluation.
5. A defense of the ethical evaluation responding to the objection.
6. A discussion of which position is better, the original ethical evaluation or the objection. Provide a reason that supports your preference.
7. A concluding paragraph that summarizes what you have done in the paper and provides any additional relevant discussion.
Other information: Try to focus on main action: Walmart has decided to use their parking lots to test patients for COVID19, but don’t have enough tests for everyone. They have decided with this limited supply, to test only first responders and medical workers for the virus, the individuals they have deemed most important for their role during this pandemic.
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Wallmart to Pay $550 Million in Bonuses
The Coronavirus pandemic has caused a lot of economic disruption not only to
individuals but to organizations and nations globally. In the United States, many people have
been rendered jobless while others have been subjected to heavy pay cuts as organizations try to
cope with the hard economic times caused by the pandemic. Due to this, Wallmart has decided to
pay hefty bonuses of more than half a billion dollars to its staffers and also hire more than
150,000 individuals. The paper will therefore evaluate this good plan by Wallmart against the
consequentialism rule of business. The paper will also expound on the right thing to do according
to this ethical evaluation and provide the objection to this rule.
Case Description
The case study that I will evaluate is the decision by Wallmart to pay its workers more
than five hundred and fifty million as bonuses. This proposal creates a controversy as far as the
ethics of business is concerned. The company seeks to provide bonuses of more than half a
billion to its hourly employees as a solution to the shopping surge caused by the coronavirus
pandemic. Moreover, the company plans to increase the bonuses of its full-time hourly workers
by paying them $300. For its part-time workers, Wallmart plans to increase their pay by $150.
All Wallmart’s workers whether part-time, full-time or temporally will get a pay increase during
this time of the pandemic. All Wallmart employees will also receive a wage increase of two
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dollars to their minimum age. Therefore, the minimum wage for Wallmart employees will be
raised by $2 an hour.
Wallmart seeks to make a $300 million investment to cover all the hefty wage increase to
its employees during these trying times caused by the Coronavirus pandemic. Department
managers have also not been left behind as far as pay rise is concerned. For Wallmart’s managers
whose pay ranges from $250 - $1500, the company plans to increase their pay by providing hefty
bonuses. With regards to its pregnant and older employees, Wallmart is focused on offering this
vulnerable group paid leaves of more than thirty days.
Wallmart also plans to employ more than one hundred and fifty temporary workers to
work on their stores and online delivery services. According to the management of the global
retailer, the company aims at providing working opportunities to the millions of individuals who
have been rendered jobless due to the coronavirus pandemic. Wallmart already employs more
than one million five hundred thousand people in the United States alone. According to the
retailer’s management, the move is aimed at improving their services which are on huge demand.
The Coronavirus pandemic has facilitated the move by individuals to stock up on essential
household and food products. As a result, the demand for these goods is extremely high thus the
current employees cannot handle the increased demands and traffic flows in their stores.
In addition to increasing the wages of all its full-time and part-time employees, Wallmart
plans on setting up temporary testing sites for the Covid-19 disease. According to Wallmart’s
president, Dan Bartlett, the company will set aside all of their parking spaces for the construction
of temporary structures that will be used to test for the disease. Wallmart joins the growing list of
retailers who are offering their grounds and parking spaces for the construction of temporary
testing sites. According to Barlett, the initial testing sites will be used to serve medical personnel
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and first responders. The company is also planning on setting up numerous testing sites across all
their retail shops in the United States. However, lack of supply and limited medical kits is
slowing down the proses of installing all these testing sites in all their shops’ parking grounds.
Despite all these good intentions by the company to help people during this time of the Corona
virus pandemic, the retailer is consequently minimizing the stocks and deliveries of its goods to
its shops outside the United States.
Ethical Evaluation by Consequentialism Rule
Despite all the right plans and activities that Wallmart plans to do to both their employees
and the general public, there arises the issue of whether their agenda is in line with the ethical
issues of business. The ethical evaluation of Wallmart’s plan can be achieved by inducing the
consequentialism rule to dete...