Stucture of Walmart

The structure of management that Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. has set up has a lot of duplicate roles. The in store management team has a manager, a co-manager and assistant manager we as a group feel that this system is very beneficial to the way the Wal-Mart stores are set up. Wal-Mart maintains numerous different departments from automotive, grocery to lawn services and this vast supply of products need a group of management for each section. The assistant store manager answers to both the manager and the co-manager and as long as those two are following the overall plans of the store then this works like a well oiled machine. The structure below the in-store management level is the specialty department managers and management trainees. This level of management entails managers from departments like automotive. Many Wal-Mart stores have outsourced their automotive departments to the Jiffy Lube Company. The managers of these departments have management power over the lower level employees hired through both companies to work for them but answer to the store manager as well as the Jiffy Lube regional manager. The management trainee is a program in which Wal-Mart takes employees with a lot of time at the company or recently graduated college students and trains them to one day run a Wal-Mart store of their own. This program teaches them the ins and outs of management and day to day operations of the store. The structure of Wal-Mart that is the lowest paid as well as the largest section of the structure is the hourly section. This group includes all entry-level workers which are greeters, cashiers, stockers, and other positions. Management’s way of organizing this group of workers includes team leads who are experienced workers who assist the managers in making sure their individual departments run smoothly. The structure the Wal-Mart stores operate well in an interview with Wal-Mart Store Manager Danielle Pruitt of Kansas City, Kansas she states “I started in the...