Walmart Employee Turnover Paper

Overview of the organization

In this paper, the discussion will be about Wal-Mart Corporation operates as one of the biggest retail stores in the US .Wal-mart has thousands of stores in the US and expanded internationally in 27 countries around the world. Wal-mart has been creating opportunities and bringing value to customers and communities around the globe. The problem that will discusses in this paper is the employee turnover or career leakage at bottom level of workers.

This problem has effects in the individual level, for example, insecurity feeling, low job satisfaction because of rising the workload, and lose the enthusiasm and creativity. The effects in the group level will be increasing the corporation cost due to the continuing

Scientific Management

The management, which was brought by Taylor had a negative aspects. One of the significant criticizes for the scientific management school is that there is no employee is entirely focus on financially needs only, however, other needs such as social, security and esteem needs are taking a place in the employee needs list. The second criticize about the theory is that no such way or one best way of doing a job and hence study time and motion may not be entirely scientific. Additionally, workers were working in accordance with the routine steps repeated boring and boring which kills proactive innovation and ambition.

(B) Theory of Administrative Management

Management involves all the activities associated with production, distribution, and selling. Fayol had set principles and functions for management. Some of the principles of this school are contradictory between each other. As an example, the principle of unity of command contradicts the principle of specialization or division of work. Moreover, the theory assumes that the principles are valid for any organization and under any circumstance, however, that is not true that all organization have the same

During the experiment, Elton Mayo has assumed that a satisfied employee would be productive. Hawthorne experiment did not give any recognition to the forces which are responsible for productivity in the organization. But the finding was different. There is no link between working condition and productivity.

(B) School of Behavioral Sciences:

This school scientists focused on the movement of human activity on the one side and the relevance of this movement with cultural and civilizational climate of this activity. In other words, the school is focusing on the individual and how the employee’s character and the administrative aspects.

The Theory of Management that will create in this paper

Going through some of management theories and the stages of the development for schools of management thought will draw the road in front of the new management theory. As we can see that both scientific management theory and administrative management theory represent two specific views of management on the opposite ends of the results. The first one vision stressed the management of the organization, while the other focuses on the management of operative work. Fayol looks to the management in the wider perspective as compared to Taylor. Hence, applying Fayol’s principles of management on Taylor’s management theory might be an excellent way to increases the efficiency and productivity