Organizational culture is an essential aspect of an organization. It provides stability; sets the tone for the employees to clearly understand how the company is operated and how they should interact with others. Walmart is a well-known company which has an interesting culture.
Walmart has three basic beliefs and values:
- 1. Respect for the individual
- 2. Best service to our customers
- 3. Striving for excellence
Employees and managers follow these beliefs and values to operate Walmart. Furthermore, its culture is transmitted to the employees through the daily Walmart cheer. Walmart says that this cheer is a way to show pride of the company and how much it values the customers. Also, the employees are required to smile and take the initiative to help any customers they see in the store.
Walmart’s organizational culture seems to be reasonable and acceptable to the customers. However, society has concerns regarding to the Walmart’s ethical issues as well as how it treats its employees. Walmart has been criticized for its production in sweatshop and employee mistreatment. These two events contradict its core values of “respect for the individual.” In addition, as mentioned in above, the employees are required to be cheerful while helping customers; this could cause a potential problem of emotional dissonance for the employees. They would also have to modify their inner feelings through deep/surface acting to match the standard. If all these problems are solved in Walmart, it could generate a more ethical and positive organizational culture.
This is a youtube video of the Walmart cheer.
Walmartsotres.com
<http://walmartstores.com/>
Picture:
<http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/btb/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/walmart.jpg>
Youtube:
Walmart Cheer……Fulton, MS by Msmother74
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dBZ_r7r_W4>
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