Walmart case study

For this reason, Walmart has grown and maintained its position in the global market and sustained the growth with effective human resource management strategies. How is job analysis done at Walmart? What job analysis methods are employed? Job analysis here is done through Walmart’s hierarchical structure and functionality. The company has separated occupation investigation into work-arranged employment examination and specialist situated employment examination. However, work-situated examination entails directly observing and interviewing the employees for the human resource managers to get and understand the possible work outcomes to expect. This is here is used in analyzing the Walmart’s salesforce. For which position does Walmart use task- or competency-based job analysis Walmart uses task-based job analysis to analyze the work of their salespersons.

On the other hand, competency based job analysis is used to evaluate their managerial positions and its top executive's performance (Thompson, 2017). What are the main differences in job specifications between Walmart’s sales force and their managers? At Walmart, the salesforce is expected to have enough knowledge of the company’s products and services as well as its business operations. In addition, they are also required to possess excellent communication skills. On the other hand, the essential attributes that the managers are expected to have include critical-thinking, investigative and good problem-solving skills. To ensure this balance is maintained the HR uses the techniques of performance analysis, gap analysis, and turnover rate analysis. By analysis individual employee performance based on the outcome they give as compared to what is expected of them, Walmart can evaluate them and manage their recruitments.