CASE STUDY OF 'WAL-MART WOMEN' DOCX

Title	CASE STUDY OF 'WAL-MART WOMEN'
Author	Nor Fuad
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GROUP ASSIGNMENT OF CASE STUDY OF ‘WAL-MART WOMEN’ Introduction Wal-Mart Store is an multinational retail corporation which runs the chain of large discount department stores and warehouse stores in American. This Wal-Mart Store was founded by Sam Walton in 1962. The company was incorporated on Octo...

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GROUP ASSIGNMENT OF CASE STUDY OF 'WAL-MART WOMEN' Introduction Wal-Mart Store is an multinational retail corporation which runs the chain of large discount department stores and warehouse stores in American. This Wal-Mart Store was founded by Sam Walton in 1962. The company was incorporated on October 31, 1969 and publicly traded on New York Stock Exchange in 1972. This Wal-Mart Store is the second largest public corporation around the world and it is also the biggest private employer in the world with over two million employees. Wal-Mart remains a family-owned business, as the company is controlled by the Walton Family, who own over 50 percent of Wal-Mart. This company also one of the world's most valuable companies. Although Wal-Mart Store is the second largest public corporation around the world, it also face the biggest employee headache which is the class action lawsuit claiming the company discriminated against female employees. Essentially, there are two main reasons why women will earn less than men. They may have less education or less working experience or choose to work in an occupations that pay less than those that men choose. The other reason is that they may face discrimination which means that the earn is not equally to the skills they do have. In this lawsuit, it is claimed : that Wal-Mart pays women less than men even when the women have the same amount of experience, that earnings differences between men and women at Wal-Mart grow wider over time, that Wal-Mart does not offer equal training opportunies to its women employees that Wal-Mart prevents women from working in departments typically staffed by men and which typically pay more, and that Wal-Mart refuses to post all management openings, thus limiting women's opportunities to apply for management positions. 0...