Provide a brief overview of the company and its HR department. Include a copy of

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Provide a brief overview of the company and its HR department. Include a copy of the company’s mission and vision. Describe in detail HR-related issues or dilemmas that the company is experiencing such as turnover, absenteeism, motivation, morale, recruiting, etc. Address the problem from the perspective of an HR manager and provide a suggested solution using any of the concepts presented throughout this course. Examples could include using a job analysis, creating policies, changing recruitment practices, incorporating an HRIS, etc. Remember, the idea is to create a viable solution to the HR problem. Explain the connection between your solution to the company’s mission and vision.

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Taking Wal-Mart as an example the mission statement of Wal-Mart is “Saving people money so they can live better. Wal-Mart’s vision statement: “To be the best retailer in the hearts and minds of consumers and employees.”Since Wal-Mart is a large organization having many stores. The manager in each store translates the general human resource plan from the corporate HR department. Thus, different stores have different interpretations of the corporate human resource plan. Thus the actual human resource planning occurs at different levels of the organization. The majority of the work force at Wal-Mart is unhappy leading to a high employee turnover rate of 70. The factors that contribute to this situation are;

Since Wal-Mart claims to be the best retailer in the hearts and minds of both consumers and employees it should change its HR policies and do job analysis of each and every job take exit and entry opinion of its employees and change its policies for good to retain its employees so that experienced employees can work better in fewer hours than the inexperienced ones coming and going.

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