CASE ANALYSIS: WAL-MART

Case Analysis: Wal-Mart



Case Analysis: Wal-Mart

Introduction

Wal-Mart's success in Human Resource Management is keeping their workforce of 1.3 million from unionizing? while adding to it and pursuing other HR activities to further Wal-Mart's success. Wal-Mart? would not have been able to? expand and have the same level of success? without hiring and taking care of quality employees. Some of Wal-Mart's human resource activities include employee advancement? employee recruitment on college universities? and employee training and development. Additionally? while most firms have slowed down their hiring of new employees? Wal-Mart has sought out new ways to attract employees to compensate for their further expansion over the next five years.

Looking at Wal-Mart's Human Resource Management? one of the most important aspects is Wal-Mart's employee advancement program. Currently? 65% of the company's managers began working hourly jobs? such as cashiers. Wal-Mart? has taken great efforts? to ensure that there are opportunities? for their employees to rise up through the ranks so to speak.

Three HR Issues of Walmart

In the realm of employee recruitment and employee training and development? Wal-Mart has targeted college students to add to their workforce. Wal-Mart? achieves this recruitment by fanning out over 80 college campuses. While they are at these colleges? they are also able to expand? their demographics by looking at minority fraternities and sororities? which brings all types of people from different backgrounds? races? and genders together in the Wal-Mart family. Having a wide variety demographic for a workforce? only serves to attract more people to seek employment with Wal-Mart because they are able to show that they have a very open hiring process. Beyond this recruitment? Wal-Mart has taken an additional step with college students by offering management training for college students while they are still in school so they are more developed and prepared upon their graduation. This program serves the purpose of making college students consider careers with Wal-Mart? and over the last two years? the program has had immense success.

The results? of these Human Resource activities speak for themselves. Wal-Mart has achieved a very good retention rate for their employees? and the proof of this is their focus on adding to their workforce over the next five years by hiring 800?000 new employees bringing the total over two million. Despite the reports? that Wal-Mart's employees are underpaid and not given benefits? Wal-Mart has not wavered. Employees? as much as 60%? have gone ...