SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT FUTURES

Sustainable Management Futures

Sustainable Management Futures

Introduction

Wal-Mart is one of the best known companies and also criticized worldwide for its business practices that have an impact on other smaller companies in the same sector and society in each country where you will find a corporate subsidiary of Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart, the big giant, the place where a lot of people usually does their shopping for the low prices and the variety of products was founded by Sam Walton. In this paper we will analyze the Organization Model of Wal-Mart. In this article we will try to break some myths that have burdened the price of Wal-Mart and we will do it properly: with facts (Jabareen, 2004, 623).

Political and legal Context and Wal-Mart

With the world evolving a international town, a highly successful international company like Wal-Mart is going to continue opposite important challenges as it is now considering with social matters fairly and wrongly in employment. Wal-Mart stayed a unionized company employed constantly to repel organizing attempts in the joined States and round the world. Some state that it is a very big discount store which will do anything just about to get bigger. Wal-Mart paid work difficulties are easily glimpsed from the headlines: Illegal immigrants mopping its levels, Sex discrimination, and Low salaries lead worker hit, etc. One of the large-scale problems is expected to come from unions and community groups. Even though no one can force to have union in Wal-Mart, these problems still injure the company itself. The unions deplore that Wal-Mart shops take benefits from the stuffs. Only on their earnings, they were not being adept to pay for health protection and other benefits. Wal-Mart workers usually provided the business high performances but they not ever get proper pay and benefits. In detail, they got a much reduced pay one. Moreover, workers did not get pay from overtime working. In February 2004, Wal-Mart was judge to pay employees for their overtime hours. This ruling was brought by workers who were compelled to work overtime between 1994 and 1999, without pay (Costanza, 1995, 193). Therefore, Wal-Mart is endeavoring to reduce the figures of full-time employees to facilitate the employees in joining unions. This assists Wal-Mart to eliminate unions' basis (Cohen, 1990, 1919). Due to fast growth of Wal-Mart, the large-scale difficulty is its need of human capital. Wal-Mart was contended that it will not do assertion to be a worldwide business when the managers in the foreign nations do not even speak the language of that country. The business explained this circumstance by decentralize administration from headquarter to worldwide operation. One-by-one homeland managers were given more flexibility to run the business, particularly in the localities of procedures and merchandising (Watts, 2002, 1313). Although Wal-Mart will not sustain workers' quality similar to what exists in the United States. Localized workers and encompassing managers need the experiences in the company culture; they are gradually adjusted. Last but not least, sex discrimination is another eternal controversy topic of ...