Organizational Culture at Wal-Mart Explain how viable employee relations’ practices have contributed to Wal-Mart success as an employer. Employees and managers are charged with continuous improvement, continuous learning, and employee ownership. Wal-Mart fosters an environment to promote superior execution and, employee empowerment in an effort to unify employees as a team. “Wal-Mart teams are highly productive but at the same time the staffing levels are lean. HR insures employees are held operationally accountable for keeping a balanced focus on customer service, expense control (theft prevention) and keeping products in stock” (Bergdahl, 2010).
Path-Goal Theory Path-Goal theory of leadership suggests that a manager’s objective is to show his/her employees how their performance directly affects his/her reception of desired rewards. Stephanie and Alex have two different bosses with different leadership behaviors. Stephanie’s boss showed the Supportive as well as the Achievement behavior. Using the Supportive behavior, Jonathan, Stephanie’s manager, tells his employees what to do in a friendly manner. A lot of employees want to work for him because his management style is relaxed and he also assigns his employees to work on different stations at the grocery store so they do not get bored.
2. What role did Sam Walton play in the development and maintenance of the Wal-Mart’s culture? Sam Walton founded Walmart for the aim of making people save money while shopping and live better. This couldn’t be achieved without a strong culture of all employees working together to fulfill that purpose. Sam Walton incorporated this culture into every aspect of the business, where you can find a set of beliefs for all employees such as high customer service, respect for the individual, striving for excellence and acting with integrity.
The process is demonstrated in a flowchart to show the flow of the process in a pictorial format. The processes key steps are given to ensure fewer problems occur. The stock to sales ratio metric tool is analyzed to help measure and control the amount of inventory flowing in daily. This work increases the understanding of the merchandise receiving process within a Walmart store. Keywords: process, merchandise, binning, stocking, receiving, metric Merchandise Receiving Process Receiving merchandise into a Walmart store seems to be an easy task; to receive, stock, and prepare for back stock.
WALMART STORES: “EVERY DAY LOW PRICES” IN CHINA Question 1 Why is Wal-Mart successful in the US? * Focus on price and service – Providing the best quality goods at the lowest price in a friendly environment. Wal-Mart is well-known for selling brand name products for less. Moreover, providing great customer service, showing respect for the individual and striving for excellence become its organizational culture, which has been carried out through the company’s history and been followed by employers as well as employees, no matter what the location is. * Successful marketing to attract customers.
While other competitors, such as Target, operate in the same market trying to attract consumers looking for low prices and conveniently giving customers the access to a one stop shopping store. Though the largest company and one of the most successful, Walmart can make improvements. The key problem for Walmart has to do with the negative treatment of employees causing a high employee turnover. Walmart’s success has come from its well know low prices and extreme variety of products allowing customers to get all their shopping done in one place. The company continues to employ new IT systems to track sales and allow managers to compare their store’s success to others.
Project of “Big Shoes” Report on Business Strategy for Innostat BAHR 550 StudentName Date Organizational Behavior by Tracey Gurton StudentNumber 12192100 DerekDonghui Chen Oct 15, 2010 “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” ------ Steve Jobs BAHR 550 Organizational behavior Project of “Big shoes” Derek Donghui Chen 12192100 Executive Summary Dear Stephanie, Thank you for inviting me to conduct a strategy consultation on Innostat! I am glad that you agree that Innostat is at a turning point and some effective actions must be taken immediately. I wish my suggestions will help you solve the problems and make the company back on track. The following report is prepared for senior executives of Innostat. The report uncovers the existing problems which led to the Innostat’s loss of market share.
Team leaders serve various roles in an organization. The main role is to get results through others. They need to get tasks done by using all of the resources available to them, including other employees or 'team members'. Each role has a different set of responsibilities attached to it. The key responsibilities of a team leader are: Providing structure for the team - This is associated to setting a clear vision to provide purpose, clarify roles and responsibilities, allocate tasks and set objectives.
Communicate in real time with suppliers while providing a secure exchange of business documents. Extends shipment tracking and order visibility to the company's business partners through a booking information module (BIM) that effectively serves as an extranet to manage shipment information Satisfies current project requirements, and positions Limited Brands to support future business initiatives and reduce development time and the cost of solutions a reusable framework so that software solutions can be replicated rather than created from scratch Problems: The acquired companies typically had their own supply chain software which meant that Limited Brands was running sixty major systems with hopes of keeping everything organized. As was demonstrated in 2002 this would not be possible. Because the different systems did not have the ability to communicate to one another, there was no way to ensure proper coordination. 3.)
As such educating consumers can direct more customers towards those businesses provided that retailers still have products the consumers want to begin with (Dickson, 2008). In this line of thinking, this is something that managers of second-hand stores should consider as a second-hand shop is a socially responsible business. While it is impossible due to the very nature of second-hand shops to have complete control of the offering, educating consumers about the benefits to second-hand shopping may appeal to those consumers who have personal values or ideologies related to not wasting resources, sustainability, the environment or helping others. The benefits that can be mentioned are things like how much resources are consumed when producing new clothing and then in comparison how much resources it takes for a consumer to buy a piece of already used clothing. An approach like this can appeal to those who are ethics and ecology motivated and perhaps even to those who want to distance themselves from the