Walmart - Research Menthod

Business Research Project

Haley Collins, Kathleen Contreras, Jessica Faucette, Brittany Hairston, Kuldip Modi, Donnetta Paderes-King

QNT/561

November 7, 2016

Russell Heigl

Business Research Project

Wal-Mart is a large multinational corporation that started as a small discount store with the simple idea of selling more products for less money. Over the last 50 years Wal-Mart has grown into the largest retailer store in the world. Today Wal-Mart has nearly 260 million customers, over 11,500 stores in 28 countries and e- commerce sites in 11 countries each week. Wal-Mart also has employed over 2.3 million associates worldwide, with 1.5 million of these associates employed in the United States alone (Wal-Mart Stores Inc, 2016). With such great opportunities for employment at Wal-Mart, the company still manages to have a high turnover rate. Here we will present our research and data, and conclude our findings to offer a recommendation to Human resources that could lead to better turnover rates

Dependent Variable

Employee turnover is the direct variable related to the organization’s issue of discussion here. Turnover is defined as the number or percentage of workers who leave an organization and replaced by new employees. There are two different type of turnover; voluntary turnover and involuntary turnover. In the calculation of the employee turnover we will determine what type of turnover will be included in the calculation. Many time separation that the company could not control such as death, disability, and retirement, will not be include in the calculation. Employee turnover has a growing concern for any organization and will impact a company’s success. Short term impact of turnover is the loss of productivity experienced immediately after the loss.