Wal-Mart Needs Technology
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Abstract
This paper will describes the results the assessment of the technology requirements relevant to employee productivity, staffing systems, career development systems, and training systems deployed by Wal-Mart to manage and increase competency and productivity of employees.
In addition, the paper will propose suggestions for improving the technology requirements relevant to employee productivity, staffing systems, career development systems, and training systems deployed by the organization to manage and increase competency and productivity of employees.
Technology Requirements
The idea of a bar code first emerged in 1932. Wallace Flint, a college student, believed that necessity could continue to drive invention therefore, Flint developed the idea for a system that would help grocery stores identify a customer's needs by reading a perforated card on which their shopping list would be labeled. Due to the the lack of technology, Flint's idea was overlooked and dismissed. But the idea resurfaced in 1948, when another graduate student, Bernard Silver, overheard a plea for help from the director of a food provider. The provider decided that it was becoming necessary to identify product information at the checkout stand. Bernard Silver and his fellow student Norman Joseph Woodland decided to pursue the challenge when a dean of Philadelphia's Drexel Institute of Technology turned down the request to reseach the idea.
Woodland first attempted to create a system utilizing ink patterns that were sensitive to ultraviolet light, but faced repeated difficulties such as high printing costs. Determined to persevere, he next turned technology already in existence, Morse code and movie soundtracks. Extending the dots and dashes that made up Morse code and adapting the patterns to create lines of varied widths, Woodland then read the information through a tube that was designed for movies made in the 1920s. The tube was able to translate light reflected from...
This paper will describes the results the assessment of the technology requirements relevant to employee productivity, staffing systems, career development systems, and training systems deployed by Wal-Mart to manage and increase competency and productivity of employees.
In addition, the paper will propose suggestions for improving the technology requirements relevant to employee productivity, staffing systems, career development systems, and training systems deployed by the organization to manage and increase competency and productivity of employees.
Technology Requirements
The idea of a bar code first emerged in 1932. Wallace Flint, a college student, believed that necessity could continue to drive invention therefore, Flint developed the idea for a system that would help grocery stores identify a customer's needs by reading a perforated card on which their shopping list would be labeled. Due to the the lack of technology, Flint's idea was overlooked and dismissed. But the idea resurfaced in 1948, when another graduate student, Bernard Silver, overheard a plea for help from the director of a food provider. The provider decided that it was becoming necessary to identify product information at the checkout stand. Bernard Silver and his fellow student Norman Joseph Woodland decided to pursue the challenge when a dean of Philadelphia's Drexel Institute of Technology turned down the request to reseach the idea.
Woodland first attempted to create a system utilizing ink patterns that were sensitive to ultraviolet light, but faced repeated difficulties such as high printing costs. Determined to persevere, he next turned technology already in existence, Morse code and movie soundtracks. Extending the dots and dashes that made up Morse code and adapting the patterns to create lines of varied widths, Woodland then read the information through a tube that was designed for movies made in the 1920s. The tube was able to translate light reflected from...