Management Practices and Issues in Walmart

Running head: MANAGEMENT PRACTICES AND ISSUES
Title of the paper: Management Practices and Issues
Name of the company: Walmart
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Table of Contents
Overview of the individual paper....................................................................................................2
Organization- Brief background......................................................................................................2
History of the organization-Walmart...........................................................................................2
Operations....................................................................................................................................2
Products and services...................................................................................................................3
Persons those are interviewed for the individual paper...................................................................3
Areas to be researched.....................................................................................................................3
Recommendations in area................................................................................................................5
Plan to share recommendations to the company..............................................................................7
Summary..........................................................................................................................................8
References........................................................................................................................................9
Bibliography..................................................................................................................................11

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Overview of the individual paper
The report is based on analyzing the selected organization, Walmart with exploring its
management practices and issues from two of areas. One of the areas is issues involved in
managing a diverse workforce and conduct necessary research to address these issues. Second
area is current practices in the organization around how leaders use effective communication.
The researcher also conducts on the area to identify best practices to base recommendations for
making improvement in the business functions of Walmart. Recommendations are provided
based on area and company so that they can manage entire business functions.
Organization- Brief background
History of the organization-Walmart
Walmart is an American discount department store which was founded in the year 1962
with single store within Rogers. It has expanded its store outside Arkansas by the year 1968 and
through rest of the Southern United States by the year 1980s. Sam’s West, Inc owned by
subsidiary of Walmart operates Sam’s Club chain of the membership warehouse store. It is
considered as one of biggest membership warehouse operator within United States (Walmart,
2016).
Operations
Walmart is operated e-commerce as well as retail operations in around 27 countries over
the world as well as source their products to more than 100 countries. There are around more
than 150 distribution centers of Walmart where its distribution operations are largest in world

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servicing stores and provide direct delivery to the customers. The company is shipping dry and
perishable groceries to the customers on daily basis (Walmart, 2016).
Products and services
Walmart provides retail goods in various categories. The customers can purchase
electronic products from the store. Walmart is also provided services like music, movies, and
books and downloads. The Walmart retailer provides baby products, grocery products as well as
sporting products. The company also provides photo lab services both online and offline
(Walmart, 2016).
Persons those are interviewed for the individual paper
In order to gather information for the individual report, the retailers and employees of
Walmart are interviewed. They are interviewed to analyze the management practices and
management issues of the organization. The issues related to involve in managing a diverse
workforce and conduct necessary research and current practices in the organization around
leaders use effective communication. They can provide information regarding operations,
products and services in the selected organization. With help of retailers and internal employees,
it becomes easier to gather data related to internal operations of the company. Critical analysis is
done with help of the collected data from interviewer.
Areas to be researched
In this study, two of the areas are taken into considerations for analyzing the individual
report. First area is issues involved in managing a diverse workforce and conduct necessary