Walmart Organizational Issues

Managing Employees

Wal-Mart Organizational Issues

Instructor: Dr. Mitra Asif

Student Name:

Phunsuk Wangdu

Submitted on: July 7, 2015

Wal-Mart Organizational Issues and Situation Analysis

Phunsuk Wangdu

Index

Introduction 3

OB issues and situation analysis 3

Conclusions 7

References 8

Appendices 12

Introduction

Wal-Mart stores Inc. is the world’s largest retailer with reported gross earnings of 460 billion U.S. dollars for 2014. It has 4,281 stores in the United States and over 11,100 stores worldwide. Wal-Mart hires more workers than any company in the whole world; in 27 different nations around the world it has hired over 2.2 million workers.

The interest on Wal-Mart stems from their ability to provide products to its customers at relatively low prices, earning them a competitive advantage over other retailers, since their products sell five times more than other American stores. However this has involved both positive and negative effects on the long term. These sales at low prices to customers have been achieved as a result of their low cost imports and high integration with foreign suppliers from various countries around the world especially China.

Due to the high volume of imports a large number of small businesses have been destroyed together with jobs in the manufacturing industry; the US economy has been affected by an increased trade deficit and the local manufacturing sector has also been affected by this growth.

Moreover, Wal-Mart has received critics over their working conditions and the pay system used in various countries. Some of its workers are unsatisfied with the compensation and believe they are overworked and this has led to strikes and boycotting in recent years. Other critics such as gender discrimination and off-the clock work have forced the administration to look into the situation in order to make adjustments to their management strategies in search for solutions to their work environment problems....