Wal-Mart's Human Resources

Paper Summary:

The paper provides a comprehensive SWOT analysis of the human resource management (HRM) within the Wal-Mart company to provide evidence that HRM within Wal-Mart is inefficient and exploitative. The paper argues that it is this exploitation, as opposed to sound business management, that has led to the company's high profit margins.

Outline:
Introduction
SWOT Analysis
Wal-Mart's Organizational Structure
The Nature of Human Resource Management at Wal-Mart

From the Paper:

"Wal-Mart is the biggest retailer in the world. Net sales in the fiscal year 2006 were valued at over $312 billion dollars. Net income is over $11 billion, which is five (5) times larger than the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) than 80% of the world's countries, including Israel, Ireland, and Sweden. Wal-Mart is the richest company in the world and by 2007 will likely control 35% of all food and drug sales in the United States (Dicker 34). However, we have to wonder at what cost all of this is possible, I argue that the cost is the workers at Wal-Mart who are exploited by a business model that is inhumane and not economically just."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Dicker, John. The United States of Wal-Mart. Penguin Group; 2005
• Lohr, Steve. An Elderly Challenges Outsourcing Orthodoxy. The New York Times, September 9, 2004. Retrieved on March 27, 2007 from http://scid.stanford.edu/publications/InTheNews/tnsrinivasan090904.pdf
• Slater, Robert. The Wal-Mart Decade. Penguin Group; 2003
• Quinn, Bill. How Wal-Mart is Destroying America (and the World) and What You Can Do About It. Ten Speed Press; 2005.
• Ulrich, Dave. Human Resource Champions. Harvard Business School Press; 1997

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