Organization Paper

MGT 330

The organization that I have chosen is Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart is the world leader in retail sales. The corporation holds assets globally that including internal stores, inventory, delivery chains, and employees. Wal-Mart currently are located in 44 countries world wide, has more than 100,000 associates, more than 12,000 stores, and currently holds 2,276 of these stores outside of the United States alone. Because of the large size of this company Wal-Mart have to consider their resources. The management decides on how to conduct business. The procedures that managers use to coordinate and put to work their resources (financial, corporal, and human resources) are known as the organizing function of management (Organizing Function of Management, 2009). This is a very important task because the entire business as well as the employees and customers are affected by these decisions. Poor organizational decisions could result in lost revenue, decreased productivity, increased expenses, and loss of customers. This is why management must be organized and thorough in every area of this process. The global distribution of Wal-Mart’s resources means that the organization function becomes increasingly difficult. As a result, the corporation’s management has to use extreme care in completing the organizing function and must be certain the decisions it makes create efficient and effective results (McNamara, 2009). Wal-Mart is the leader of retail sales and sells millions of products daily, all over the world. The vast amount of sales requires Wal-Mart’s managers to monitor every piece of inventory sold in all of its stores. To continue to meet the needs of the customer, Wal-Mart’s managers, using the organization function, must adequately monitor and stock all