Culture and IHRM

CULTURE AND IHRM Name Institution Affiliation Course Date of Submission Wal-Mart Stores Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. is an American corporation that majors in retail and runs several extra large warehouses and discount stores across the U.S. and several parts of the globe. According to the Fortune 500 list of global companies this corporation by virtue of the fact that it employs the largest number of people in the world and the fact that it has become the world`s leading retailer for quite some years, has become one of the largest corporations in the world. It employs over two million workers. It is therefore no surprise when Mathur& Gupta (2011) document that"Wal-Mart's economy… is larger than Poland's, the Ukraine's, Portugal's, or Greece's…" When a multinational such as Wal-Mart expands into new territory, there often exists stumbling blocks such as cultural barriers in the operations of the company and as Halkos&Tzeremes (2008) deduce in their findings, national culture often triumphs the organizational structure irrespective of how big it is. In this...