Organization Culture at Wal-Mart Jan 8, 2010 Case Study Contents 1. Introduction 2. Wal-Mart – Company Background 3. Sam Walton and Wal-Mart’s culture 4. Exhibit: Unique values that support Wal-Mart’s three basic beliefs 5. The 10-Foot Rule – Wal-Mart’s secret to customer service 6. The Sundown Rule 7. Open-Door Policy 8. Servant Leadership 9. Rank-and-file profit sharing 10. Grass Roots Process – Associate Opinion Survey 11. The Wal-Mart Cheer 12. Wal-Mart’s efforts to make the company
Words: 670 - Pages: 3
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: WAL-MART’S GLOBAL EXPANSION This report explores Wal-Mart’s global expansion plan in an environment where businesses have to adapt to the fast pace of change and cope with the challenges that are implicit in the emergence of an increasingly complex global economy. Principally, Wal-Mart grew to where it is today through the vision of its founder, Sam Walton. Over the years, it serves the needs of the community where it exists well. However, when it brings it business abroad
Words: 321 - Pages: 2
FUNDAMENTALS CONCEPT OF PLANNING A plan may be classified according to time horizon/duration as follows 1. LONG-TERM OR PERSPECTIVE PLAN- extends from 10 to 20 or even 25 years. Educational planning has to be based on a concept of the future. The planners should envision the kind of society; the kind of political, intellectual and social leadership. 2. MEDIUM-TERM PLAN-usually 4-5years, is prepared against the backdrop of a long-term perspective plan. It has proven operationally to be most
Words: 535 - Pages: 3
Chapter IV Presentation, Analysis and Interpretation of Data This chapter deals with the presentation, analysis, and interpretation of data gathered from the responses of the 271 respondents. The data are presented by tables and discussion of findings on the mainly on the problem of the study. Table 1 Age Number of respondents Percentage 15-17 73 26.94 18-20 155 57.20 21 up 43 15.86 Total 271 100% This table shows that 73 respondents or 26.94% out of
Words: 10077 - Pages: 41
Wal-Mart This paper will discuss the structure of Wal-Mart's corporate culture and how it influences their employees. In order to understand an Organization Behavior there are different elements that will create the employees perspective of the organization’s culture such as the management’s philosophy, vision, values, and goals. The driving force of these elements will create the culture of the organization. An organization’s culture will define the leadership, and dynamics of the
Words: 2964 - Pages: 12
Ohio State football coach Jim Tressel has sought to move his team beyond past behavior problems into a new era. To do so, he made senior players accountable for making sure teammates act properly at all times. Determine whether you agree or disagree with his approach. Support your reasoning. Propose ways that those without formal authority can manage others. Making senior players responsible for making sure team players act as a team, can work if the senior player display effective leadership
Words: 276 - Pages: 2
complete player who can also tackle, at least much better than the average CB. Another detail that not many know is that Richard Sherman is a very spiteful player. In the 2011 Draft was selected until the fifth round and ignored by his former coach Jim Harbaugh at Stanford. Sherman knows very well who the CB 23 selected before him, and has made every effort to ensure that each and every one see the mistake they made to let go. Indeed, very few know, but Richard Sherman came to Stanford as a WR and
Words: 1149 - Pages: 5
Cases in Operation Management Semester 4 PGDBA (Operations) Page 1 Question-: 1 The “Quality Auto Works” is a manufacturer of auto parts. All the auto parts being manufactured in the industry are required to be phosphated for surface protection. Presently other small units are done this phosphated work. Quality Auto Work is now thinking of installing
Words: 826 - Pages: 4
Massacre that occurred on November 18th, 1978 in Georgetown, Guyana. It was the largest loss of civilian life in a non-natural tragedy until the attacks of September 11th, 2001. 909 lives were lost under the hand of Jim Jones who had cultivated a following of people over twenty-plus years. Jim Jones started his first church, named The Peoples Temple, in the mid-1950’s in Indianapolis, Indiana (I). From the beginning, he preached a message of socialism and communism. Upon scrutiny of his tactics and teachings
Words: 2058 - Pages: 9
Politeness has been well defined as benevolence in trifles. Like benevolence on a larger scale, it includes a feeling in the mind as well as the performance of those outward actions by which that feeling is manifested. The internal feeling, which is an essential part of true politeness, is the same all over the world, however much its manifestations may differ. It is the desire to put those whom we meet perfectly at their ease, and save them from every kind of petty discomfort and annoyance. Benevolence
Words: 576 - Pages: 3
