Read the following short articles:
Responding to the Needs of Low-Wage Workers
https://hrexecutive.com/responding-to-the-needs-of-low-wage-workers/
Why Aren't Wages Keeping Up? It's Not the Economy, Its Management
https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshbersin/2018/10/31/why-arent-wages-keeping-up-its-not-the-economy-itsmanagement/#10ac0f25397e
Raising Wages Is the Right Thing to Do, and Doesn’t Have to Be Bad for Your Bottom Line
https://hbr.org/2019/04/raising-wages-is-good-for-employees-and-doesnt-have-to-be-bad-for-your-bottom-line
America's workers continue to struggle despite 'strong' jobs report
https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/470769-americas-workers-continue-to-struggle-despite-strong-jobs-reports
To successfully complete the exercise, you will need to:
- Briefly (no more than ½ page), summarize what you believe are the main issues or problems shared by
these articles.
2.Describe how you would resolve the main issues or problems you identified using two of the ethical
schools/frameworks discussed in class.
3.What do you believe should be the response of organizations that claim a focus on corporate social
responsibility to the issues/problems you identified? How would this response be justified to stakeholders?
4.What role do you believe individual business and HR professionals could play in solving the issues or
problems you identified?
Sample Solution