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Introduction
Organizational Behaviour (OB) primarily entails development of associations purposing
at achieving social, human and organizational objectives. Organisational Behaviour (OB) assists
in inspiring innovation and change. Employees are likely to act as obstacles or an instrument of
change. It is organisational behaviour which tends to cultivate ideas as well as skills in order to
promote innovation and modification by improving employees’ creativeness. In examining the
Organizational Behaviour of Walmart, Morgeson, Mitchell and Liu (2015) have noted that
effective communication is fundamental to the organization as it tends to foster communication
with and between the management. Reports of Chang and Lin (2015) have revealed that Walmart
constitutes strong culture which all new employees are incorporated into. Meanwhile, Feeley
(2017) has noted that the management of Walmart further strives to successfully motivate
employees through proficient mentorship. The paper will evaluate three primary perspectives of
OB Open Systems, Learning Perspective, and Stakeholder Perspective and further reflect on its
workplace culture to understand the organizational behaviour of Walmart.
Discussion
Open Systems Perspective
At certain points, the organisations tend to face ethical dilemma whereby they have to
characterize right and wrong functions. However, it is Organisational Behaviour which facilitates
an imperative role by serving the organization to generate such an environment which exhibits
ethics, positivity and increases work efficiency, job contentment in addition to organisational
citizenship behaviour. One of the key OB perspectives, Open Systems theory primarily proposes

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that organizations are recognized as social systems which show high reliance on the environment
where they exist for inputs. According to Chadwick and Raver (2015), the Open System Theory
can be highly relevant to the organizational behaviour of Walmart. Reports of Schnackenberg
and Tomlinson (2016) have stated that Walmart owes its achievements significantly to its
employee base. The environment setting of Walmart has been inundated with overpriced
commodities which align well with the company’s goals and objectives in order to safeguard
people and advance them in leading improved lives. Through Open System perspective,
organizations have been focusing on the response and feedback among the various significant
parts as well as processes in the organization and between the organization and its environment.
Abdelkafi and Täuscher (2016) have noted that organizations tend to examine organizational
concerns not only by shedding light on areas which appears to be segregated parts but relies
greatly on the more significant patterns of interactions within the parts. Organizations such as
Walmart through the Open System perspective primarily focus on structures which aggravate
behavioural patterns that verify events instead of acting in response to events as been done
previously. Walmart has been proficiently maintaining open system perspective on performance
by focusing on the outcomes desired by the organization itself chiefly in its external environment
(Walmart.com, 2019).
Learning Perspective
Rae and Wang (2015) focusing on organizational behaviour focus on parallel learning
structures which tend to promote innovation, creativity as well as organizational development.
Through learning perspective of OB, groups representing diverse levels operate in harmoniously
in order to create new channels of communication in alignment to the standardized hierarchical
structure. Parallel learning structures aims to help in obtaining the company’s collective