Organizational Behaviors

The Phenomenal Success of Wal-Mart

A Study of Organizational Behavior

The success story of Wal-Mart is well known in America . It is also being studied abroad and in many parts of the world it is a dream to build such an enterprise - with a scope and operation capacity that could rival a small government . The Wal-Mart of Sam Walton fame is a model of great business and profit

Thus , the rest of the world wants to know what the secret behind the success . The inside story and numerous observations and studies has

been used to dissect the organization in an attempt to copy its winning formula

Since many had already undertaken to go to the trouble of studying the whole corporate structure and looking into all possible angles using all public documents and other inside information - there is no need to go to the same length of research . What the proponent of this study would attempt on the other hand is an examination of some organizational behavior concepts and how Wal-Mart used them to strengthen their hold as the number one store in the country

The study then is focused on the following questions

What organizational behavior concepts was used by the founder of Wal-Mart and its core personnel in transforming a small business venture in Arkansas into one of the biggest companies in the world

How did they use these behavioral concepts and turn them into a unique way of doing business

The proponent of this study will focus on for organizational behavior concepts that

Wal-Mart used to become what they are today . And these organizational behavior concepts are as follows : a ) Motivation b ) Communication c Organizational Culture and d ) Group behavior

In the review of literature for this study , several books will be used but the cornerstone would be books from two insiders . This means that resources and ideas will be taken from two people who had worked with Sam Walton - the founder - and these personalities had spent a considerable amount of time in the running of operations inside Wal-Mart and thus their insights would be valuable . The first one is Donald Soderquist through his book entitled , The Wal-Mart Way ' who was the former Vice-Chairman and Chief-Operating-Officer . The other resource person is Michael Bergdahl who had a chance to work directly with Sam Walton and was an employee of Wal-Mart , serving in an executive function . His book entitled , What I Learned from Sam Walton : How to Compete and Thrive in a Wal-Mart World ' is both a behind the scenes look while the same time offering a view from the outside offering a counter-balance to an often exaggerated view of Wal-Mart fame . The rest of the sources for the review of literature offer an external view of the operations of this giant

The Wal-Mart Success

To give a quick background of what Mal-Mart means to the American public Nelson Lichtenstein a historian from the other side of the fence was forced to acknowledge the impact of Wal-Mart and he...