Walmart Organizational Behaviour

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