The Observation Scandal of Lidl

Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject Business economics - Business Ethics, Corporate Ethics, grade: A+, course: Ethics of Finance & Social Responsibility, language: English, abstract: In the spring of 2008 the big German discount supermarket chain LIDL was criticized for the way they observed their employees which included a very systematically way of collecting data of their employees. In this paper their practices, the consequences after it got public and also some changes LIDL made after the scandal got public are presented.