Here is the synopsis of our sample research paper on Innovations for Wal-Mart. Have the paper e-mailed to you 24/7/365.
Essay / Research Paper Abstract
A 9 page paper making several recommendations for Wal-Mart at the end of 2006, after Maryland targeted the company for health care contributions and after a Maryland court denied the requirement. Wal-Mart is beginning to be more outwardly-focused than in the past; the paper recommends expanding the location of primary care clinics in Wal-Mart stores; expanding its $4 prescription program currently available only in Florida; subsidizing direct health care costs of employees; surveying employees directly to discover their wants and needs; and requiring the use of biofuels in all Wal-Mart vehicles where biofuel is available. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
Page Count:
9 pages (~225 words per page)
File: CC6_KSwalmInnovt.rtf
Buy This Term Paper »
Unformatted sample text from the term paper:
has become the "800 pound gorilla" that politicians and union leaders seek to tame. The state of Maryland recently targeted Wal-Mart as being negligent in taking care of employees
and passed legislation intended to force Wal-Mart to provide either employer-paid health insurance or large pay increases so that employees in the state of Maryland could leave the state health
care system. A Maryland court correctly labeled the legislation as being unconstitutional in July 2006. Wal-Mart has revolutionized virtually everything that has
come to be important in its business, including pricing policy; requirements of suppliers; in-store marketing; data collection and analysis; distribution management; and market targeting. Certainly it will continue to
progress in all of those operational areas, particularly as it expands its radio frequency identification (RFID) system for product tracking. Wal-Mart will continue to develop these factors; it needs
now to turn its innovative powers toward health care. With 1.2 million employees, Wal-Mart has the ability to establish new standards for the growing working class. Wal-Mart and the
Shrinking Middle Class For all of its operational and marketing advances, Wal-Mart historically has been deficient in its relationship with employees and with
the local communities in which it operates. Outsiders roundly criticize the company for not paying its employees a living wage as they fail to assess conditions at both small
businesses and national chains operating in Wal-Mart markets, most of which pay far less than Wal-Marts national average of $10.11 per hour (Carrillo, 2006).
What these critics fail to understand is that Wal-Mart employees enjoy better circumstances than many other un- or underinsured people. Increasing numbers of companies are dropping health insurance
...