Wal-Mart Faces Recruiting Challenges

Based on our study of organizational behavior I find out that Wal-Mart has lots of the issues at the individual, group, and organizational level.

At the individual level Wal-Mart has issues with employees’ job satisfaction, motivating their employees, and gender and sexual orientation. The first individual level issue is cannot reach employees’ job satisfaction. Wal-Mart as a multinational retailer corporation their employees are multinational. Every country will have difference culture, so their citizen will have difference requests to job. Wal-Mart’s policies cannot make all employees be satisfied. Canadian Wal-Mart stores will be the best example for the issues. The second issue is Wal-Mart cannot be right to motivate employees. Base on the first issue Wal-Mart cannot understand their employees’ request. Under this state Wal-Mart will not motivate their employees in right ways. The third issue is Wal-Mart has problem with gender and sexual orientation; that female employees are discriminated against in matters regarding pay and promotions. The gender discrimination lawsuit is the evidence for the issue. Thus, Wal-Mart’s turnover rate is high and approximate 70% of their employees leave within the first year. This is the evidence for Wal-Mart’s individual level issues.

Workforce diversity, accepting the different between employees, and respecting employees’ culture are the issues at group level. Wal-Mart as a multinational corporation their workforce is diversity. For instance, Canadian Wal-Mart stores will have lots of different countries, different cultures and different religions employees; neither managers nor employees can succeed on the personal skills alone; and they must work with other employees. But work diversity will cause problems with accepting different between employees and respecting different culture. For work with different people the corporation should teach their employees

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