Organizational Structure Of Wal-Mart

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Introduction
Wal-Mart is an American large multinational retail corporation which has the largest employees of the world and that’s around 2 million. This company was founded by Sam Walton near 1962. And now the Fortune Global 500 list says, Wal-Mart is the world largest company by revenue. It’s currently operating in 15 countries with 8500 stores under 55 different names.

Wal-Mart Organisation Structure
For top level, Wal-Mart follows the Divisional Organization Structure and for store level, they use Matrix Organizational Structure.
There are 4 key divisions of Wal-Mart. These are,
• Wal-Mart Realty
• Wal-Mart International
• Wal-Mart Specialty Stores
• Sam’s Club and Super-Center
Every division is given separately enough resources and autonomy and also has it’s own functional workforce.

Organizational structure helps companies to be able to specialize its activities into self-reliant divisions, each capable of satisfying.
Each division is given enough resources and autonomy and has its own functional workforce.

The detailed structure is given below:-
● Divisional and the Senior Vice presidents seat in the head office generally.
● The other districts which have many stores, each district is run by a District Manager, who lives in the field. These District Managers have been replaced by "Market Managers" who will be responsible for a larger number of stores.
● Market divisional structure is followed because, their main goal is to increase the merchandising power

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