Walmart: Analysis of Strategic Human Resource Management Practices

This report provides an analysis of Walmart's strategic human resource management, focusing on its organizational structure and change management strategies. The report begins with an overview of Walmart's mission and vision statements, highlighting its commitment to providing value to customers. It then delves into the company's hierarchical functional organizational structure, emphasizing the roles of different departments like IT, HR, production, and marketing. A key aspect of the report addresses the need for organizational change within Walmart, specifically focusing on uneven product distribution in stores. The report outlines a step-by-step approach to address this issue, including identifying the root causes (such as lack of supervision), implementing corrective actions (such as improved employee training and regular performance checks), and measuring the success of these changes. Overall, the report offers insights into how Walmart manages its human resources and adapts to organizational challenges to achieve its business objectives.

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Walmart
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Walmart: organizational change and steps to be followed
Walmart Canada was founded on March 17, 1994. It consists of Hart stores, discount
stores, as well as Giant tiger. It is one of the biggest retailers in terms of revenue as well as in
terms of number of employees. The mission statement of the company is to save the money
of people so that they can live in a better way. By using this statement, Walmart is charging
lower prices in order to attract more and more customers. The vision statement of Walmart is
to be the destination where customers can save money without considering how they want to
shop. This vision of the company was changed in the year 2017. Previously, the vision
statement of Walmart was to be the best retailer in the mind and heart of employees and
customer. The organization structure followed by Walmart is hierarchical functional
organizational structure. This structure has two features: hierarchy and functional based. The
hierarchical feature relates to the vertical line of authority as well as command in the
organizational structure. It means every employee have their superior except the CEO. On the
other side, functional-based definition of the organization involves the group of employees
performing certain functions. In Walmart, there are various departments such as information
technology, human resource department, production, and marketing department. These entire
departments perform different function based on the task allocated to them.
In every organization, the changes are required to be implemented successfully. As a
human resource manager, I will always search the need of change that it is necessary or not.
After seeing the major problem in any of the area, I would like to find out the root cause of
the problem before taking any further action. In Walmart, the major change is required in its
stores that are not systematically arranged. In order to bring this change, I would first identify
the reasons behind the problem. After getting the reasons of the problem, it becomes easy to
successfully implemented those changes in organization. Therefore, the main problem in the
Walmart stores is uneven distribution of products. This problem can be solved by taking
certain steps. Lack of supervision is the main reason for this problem. This can be fixed by
taking careful change on the employees so that they perform their responsibility in a positive
manner. In addition to this, the problem can also be solved by taking time-to-time check on
employees so that the problems can be conveying in a better way. All these will be
implemented in the organization so that results can be find out in a best manner. After
following all the steps for change, it will measure the change process. In this step, it will be

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seen that to what extent the change process was successful. If in any area it is lacking, it will
again follow a series of steps and apply the other solutions.