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Case Study Of Walmart's Success In The Business

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-> Human Resources in Walmart (How HR Drives success in the business)

The HR in Walmart does not solely talk about recruiting. Walmart understands the role of HR in manoeuvring the growth and success in the business. The HR Department in Walmart quote “Our team creates environments for associates to thrive as high performers. We match people’s passions and talents to the needs of our business. In order to be the best advocates and allies for our associates, we’re looking at the world of HR through the lens of innovation. Put simply, we’re passionate about our people” (Walmart, 2017). Also, unlike many organisations, Walmart takes a paramount pride in its HR department. Sam Walton, founder of Walmart called his HR department as People Division instead, as he believed that, other than recruiting, another important task performed by them was managing talent towards business success (Bergdahl, 2010). We can assume with this that HR has a major role at driving success at Walmart. …show more content…

Walmart has to strategize to stay in the lead either by cost leadership or differentiation or an integration of the two. Obtaining the cost leadership in retails would mean running day-to-day operation on a very low cost (Stankevičiūtė et al., 2012). The People Division at Walmart have linked its HR Strategies to that of its Business Strategies which is ‘Cost Leadership’. Following are examples of such strategies (Bergdahl,

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