Target's Expansion To Canad A Case Study

In January 2015, just less than two years that Target had expanded to Canada, they had come to the conclusion that they would be closing down all of their 133 stores within the country, laying off 17,600 employees (Scott, 2015). The company’s CEO, Brian Cornell, voiced to the media how tough this decision was to make but how necessary it was for the company, in order to successfully continue their operations within the United States. The main reason Target had to shut down within Canada was because they were incapable of earning any sort of profit until the year 2021 (Scott, 2015). Target had also lost approximately one billion dollars during their first year in business within Canada (Evans, 2015). The most devastating part about this closure was the fact that 17,600 employees, both full and part-time, were going to lose their jobs. However, Target did offer a minimum of sixteen weeks severance pay to all employees that were affected by their closing (Scott, 2015). Although Target had difficulty coming to a conclusion on it’s stores in Canada, it has benefitted …show more content…
When there’s a situation with dirty hands, it also contains both the private and public morality of the individuals involved. Private morality is, “the morality and moral requirements and considerations present in one’s personal affairs, whether or not those affairs are private,” (Grace, D., Cohen, S., & Holmes, W., 2014). As for public morality, it is, “the morality and moral requirements and considerations present when one has a public persona, role or position,” (Grace, D., Cohen, S., & Holmes, W., 2014). When it comes to Target, the CEO and other executives that had an impact on the final decision had to determine what was morally right for the company. This doesn’t mean that they didn’t do something morally