Walmart Performance Management Case Analysis PDF

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Major Issues Concerned and the Management Strategies and Practices of Walmart

The key management strategies and practices issued by Walmart is motivation of the employees and diversity management. The motivation of the employees implies that more and more encouragement should be given to the employees so that they can bring out the best in them. They should feel important in the company and feel that they are highly wanted. Every employee should be given encouragement so that they can work in the most efficient way, for the benefit of the company. If the employees feel motivated, then the best outcome would be got for the company. Hence, motivation acts as an excellent mode of management strategy. It ensures that the employees feel motivated and all their talents come up. Diversity Management implies all the acts relating to the organization which possesses the target of the promotion of higher rates of employment of the employees. These employees would be recruited from different cultures and backdrops so that the best of all the cultures could be received. This strategy can prove to be very effective for attracting employees across the globe. This is so, because the best of all the ideas could be received and the best of opinions could be gathered from the employees.

But despite the adoption of the best of the marketing strategies by Walmart, there are certain issues which arise in the function of the company. A wide difference is made between the employers and the employees of Walmart. As a result of which, the motivation goes in vain. They feel unimportant in the company. When there is recruitment of employees from different states under diversity management, all the employees of all the states are not given equal recognition. Thus, they feel neglected and do not work in the best of their ways. Sometimes, there is absence of training and specialization facilities to the employees. To add to this, there prevails a communication gap between the management team and the employees. Due to this, all the important directives are not conveyed to the employees all the time. To add to this, there is also the prevalence of the communication gap between the employer and the employees, the executive team with the employees. Due to the absence of diversity management, there arises communication gap between the employees possessing different culture and language. There is absence of common topics to discuss and thus, the relationship between the peer groups is not friendly. This creates coordination issues and also causes confusion in some orders of Walmart. Furthermore, all the decisions are taken by the management team itself. The inclusion of the employees is not done. This misses out on lot of significant opinions

which could come up from the employees of Walmart. There is absence of joint sitting of the employer employee meeting in the company which causes disruption in its functioning. There is lack of proper coordination in the employer employee relationship....