Organizational Behavior, Walmart

Organization Behavior: Wal-Mart

September 30, 2007

Every organization has its own distinct behaviors, characteristics that portray the company’s ways of building harmonious relationships by attaining human, organizational, and social goals. This distinction in the environmental culture is what defines a company. The company’s philosophy, values, mission, vision, goals and objectives, communication, capacity to embrace changes, culture and learning sets as its model framework which the company outlines its function. Thus, all the outcomes of the effort of the organization can be traced back to how each individual of the organization feels towards the goals and objectives of the organization as a whole and what efforts were made by the corporation to ensure that everyone in the organization feels the same way towards working the goal.

Every little details of the behavioral aspect in an organization are incorporated in the field of discipline now known as organizational behavior. Organizational Behavior (OB) is a broad study and application of knowledge about how people, individuals, and groups act in their respective organizations. Usually, companies use system approach that construes the people-organization relations from the smallest to the completely social system (Knoster, 2000). Organizational Behavior is in the generic term which includes the diversity, corporate culture, organizational structure, and change management.

Wal-mart Stores Inc (NYSE:WMT), a publicly owned American Corporation, is currently the world’s largest corporation (by number of employees) according to the 2007 Fortune 500 (Fortune 500, 2007). This paper aims to present a detailed analysis on the organizational behavior exhibited by Wal-Mart Corporation. Further, it attempts to show how it affects the unwavering success of the company and the crucial factor of the organizational behavior in helping Wal-Mart management attain this success.

Literally, diversity is the gathering together of everyone in the organization having different sets of values and background and yet aiming at the same set of goals. More often than not, diversity in the organization is centered on the issues of equality whether in benefits and opportunities or simply in the treatment of fellow employees towards each other as much as it also the requirement of respect to individualities in the organization to achieve the common goal. There are too many legal issues involved in a diverse workforce that it becomes a core management issue to attend to the needs and demands of such very sensitive workforces to achieve harmony at the work environment.

In process of incorporating diversity to the organization’s culture, everyone in the organization has to cooperate in