Walmart MoneyCard |Assignment

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Introduction
Sustainability can be referred as a concept which is essentially focused on ensuring that a
business is successfully being able to integrate the ability to perform a business well and
undertaking various steps and procedures which help them to achieve their overall objective and
in association with this, also allows the future generation to fulfill their overall needs
successively (Crane, Matten & Spence, 2019). Hence, for the purpose of this paper, the Walmart
has been chosen as an organization with the help of which the paper will aim to highlight the
manner in which the social responsibility of a business can be integrated with the strategic value
proposition and in the value chain.
Discussion and analysis
Value chain
Figure 1: The value chain of Walmart
(Source: Dyck et al., 2019)

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The value chain can be rightfully described as the overall operational chain which is
usually adopted by an enterprise in order to ensure that it is successfully being able to fulfill its
goals in an adequate manner. The value chain divides the operations of an organization into the
Primary activities and the supporting activities (Dyck et al., 2019). Hence, if the firm will be able
to integrate sustainability and overall social responsibility in these activities, its responsibility
towards the organization and the society can be achieved in the right manner. Hence, with
association to this, it needs to be mentioned that, the following objectives and steps can be
undertaken by the firm to achieve sustainability and social responsibility in its value chain
activities:
 Firm infrastructure: The infrastructure of the Walmart as an enterprise can be stated to be
in the form of the shopping centers and the warehousing systems. In association with this,
it is integral to mention that the store design and the firm infrastructure needs to be in a
manner such that the emission is at the least and that the environmental friendly aspects
need to be maintained accordingly (Grayson & Hodges, 2017).
 Human resource management: The human resource management team forms one of the
most integral part of the firm and in association with this, it becomes effective to mention
that, the human resource management of the firm needs to be such that they are being
able to work adequately for the overall operations of the firm. As the employees are a key
aspect of the firm and its overall environment, it is important that the firm engages in
adequate social responsibility programs which will accompany the firm in performing
adequately well and to be able to engage in effective sustainability programs as well
(Wang et al., 2016).