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Wal-Mart’s New Workplace Democracy Plan to be Implemented as a Top Down Initiative

Drawing from recent research findings from the Association of Human Resource Management, Wal-Mart has determined that workplace democracy is the most cutting edge way to satiate increasingly dissatisfied retail employees and plans to launch a company-wide initiative later this year.

Andrea Bennett, Wal-Mart’s Chief Human Resources Officer, explained, “The multi-faceted nature of the initiative will include a marketing campaign to create signage and collateral for the break rooms about the importance of employee voice, requirements for store managers to talk about democracy in staff meetings, and executive compensation tied to survey results about inclusion in bottom-up practices and procedures.”

When asked about how the initiative would be managed, she added “our business integration team is deploying our multi-pronged workplace democracy initiative in 62 stores by Q4 of 2020, and scaling to all stores by Q4 of 2021. By 2021 all stores will be required to have workplace democracy.”