Walmart Human Resource Practices

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An overview of Walmart�s HR practices and their impact on workforce management.

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HRM practices
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Analyze Walmart's approach to human resource planning and job design. In your response, discuss how
Walmart's hierarchical structure influences human resource management and its impact on employee
performance. Additionally, evaluate the role of technology in forecasting human resource needs,
balancing supply and demand, and managing surplus/shortage of employees. Support your analysis with
examples from Walmart's history and organizational practices.
(Word count requirement: 1,200-1,500 words)

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Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................................. 2
History of Walmart..................................................................................................................................... 2
Walmart’s Human Resource Planning ..................................................................................................... 3
Job Analysis and Job Design at Walmart................................................................................................. 4
Wal-Mart’s Recruitment Strategy ............................................................................................................ 5
Selection ....................................................................................................................................................... 7
Employee Retention at Walmart ............................................................................................................... 8
Walmart’s Employee Training Aspect...................................................................................................... 9
Performance Management at Walmart .................................................................................................. 10
Career Development at Walmart ............................................................................................................ 12
Compensation at Walmart ....................................................................................................................... 13
Conclusion ................................................................................................................................................. 14

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Introduction
Walmart is currently considered as one of the greatest organizations on the planet,
particularly due to its hierarchical size and as a result of its money related worth and budgetary
execution. As in any association, it is constantly essential to guarantee that the HR, i.e. the
workforce, is legitimately upheld as far as fulfilling needs and tending to desires. In such
manner, it is essential for Walmart to consider how its exercises, for example, inner hierarchical
exercises, have the capacity to bolster the needs of its workers. Walmart needs to consider its
human resource planning and job design, and how these aspects are able to contribute to the high
performance of the employees. Moreover, Walmart should also consider the how the
organizational structure, along with recruitment and selection, retention and training,
performance management, compensation, and career development all contribute to the
productivity of the employees.
History of Walmart
A great many people realize that most famous rebate retailers began in 1962; K-
Mart, level and Wal-Mart opened its first store. (Organization, 2010) really began by Sam
Walton of this work amid the extraordinary rivalry of the 1950s a large portion of the local
markdown stores. Before making the opening of its organization Sam went to a large portion of
the parts of nation to learn things about the rebate retail business. He effectively persuaded
American purchasers that he got the thought for another and contrasted with the old. With
certainty and vision, Sam with his wife Helen began the advancement of a noteworthy stake in
the first store in Rogers; Kmart has extended quickly in the 1960s, while Sam was to get

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adequate cash for the improvement of 15 stores of Wal-Mart. In 1972, business shares were
offered to open in the New York. With this mix of cash, the organization made development in
business set up its stores in 11 nations with number of 276 stores before the end of its first
decade. In 1983, opened its first store Sam Club Members Gallery. The early Supercenter was
opened by 1988, including market and other 36 divisions for general stock. By 1989, there were
1402 Wal-Mart Stores 0.123 Sam Club destinations. Expanded ten-fold work. Its deals
developed to $ 26 billion from one billion dollar. (Milner, 2005) Today it have stores and locales
numbered 8747 in more than 15 nations of the world that have 2.1 million Associates and gives
administration to no less than 176 million clients in a year time.
Walmart’s Human Resource Planning
The human resource planning at Walmart is stratified in terms of the programs and
solutions that are developed and implemented. For instance, human resource planning in general
takes place at the top management level of the central human resource department of the
organization. However, it is important to note that the organization is very large and each store
has its own human resource manager. The store human resource manager’s actions to ensure that
the plan is applicable to the specific conditions of the individual Walmart store translate the
general human resource plan developed at the central human resource department. This means
that each store can have varying interpretations of the general organizational human resource
plan. Thus, human resource planning occurs at various levels of the organization.
In terms of forecasting, the organization makes use of special software products that
are intended to automate the process of analyzing changes in the workforce. For instance, the
organization gets its data from individual Walmart stores regarding the workforce. The data is

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