Wal-Mart has always attached great importance to cultivating a relaxed atmosphere within the company. Sam never fails to maintain the joyful atmosphere of the company family at all times. Walmart employees can appreciate a unique atmosphere, or company culture, which is a kind of team spirit and a simple spirit of small-town Americans who work hard and treat others sincerely. On the one hand, they work hard; at the same time, they entertain themselves after work. They are unique Walmart people who create unique Walmart miracles.
Share happiness
Wal-Mart not only entertains itself, but also shares happiness with everyone. It organizes various games to entertain customers, from poetry recitals to children digging into haystacks to hunt for treasures. The biggest one is the Full Moon Pie Eating Contest.
The cause of the competition was that in 1985, an assistant manager of a store in Alabama made a mistake when ordering. He ordered four or five times more pies at once, and was faced with a mountain of fillings shipped to the store. He himself was frightened because this thing couldn't be stored for a long time. Suddenly, he came up with the idea of ??a pie-eating contest to solve his urgent problem, and the result was unexpectedly good. Not only was the extra pie not wasted, but I also got a lot of extra orders for myself. Now, the Full Moon Pie Eating Contest has become a major event at Walmart every fall. Every year on the second Saturday in October, this branch holds this event in the parking lot. The venue is crowded with people, and there are also TV and newspaper reporters to add to the fun.
There are also things that may seem more silly and outrageous, but as long as it really makes everyone happy, Sam and his senior executives will be happy to do it. Like when Sam lost a bet and had to wear a Hawaiian hula skirt and dance hula on Wall Street. Charlie Self, the former vice chairman, also lost a bet and had to wear pink pants, a blond wig, and ride a white horse through downtown Bentonville. Also, an employee of Sam's Club told Glass, the then president, that he wanted to give him a pigskin coat. As a result, after the football game of the sales competition, Glass was given a live pig, which meant that the skin and meat were included. Sending him off made Glass laugh and cry. All of these make people feel the relaxed and happy atmosphere in Walmart, which is also the unique culture of Walmart.
Saturday morning meeting
The Saturday weekly meeting has become Wal-Mart's unique cultural atmosphere. Every time at this time, under the leadership of Sam, everyone will sometimes do aerobics, sometimes sing, and sometimes just shout slogans. Anyway, do whatever you like. As long as it can liven up the atmosphere, you can try whatever you want.
Sometimes, Wal-Mart will also invite some unique guests to attend meetings to add to the fun. People in sports and entertainment circles will also give Wal-Mart face. Sidney Moncrief and Fran Tarkenton have all attended Wal-Mart parties. Oklahoma country singer Garth Brooks also came to Wal-Mart's Saturday weekly meeting to entertain attendees with his beautiful vocals. Managers sometimes even took matters into their own hands, as when Sam had a mock boxing match with Sugar Ray Leonard in the venue.
In this way, many serious and important business topics are discussed and discussed easily in a casual and lively atmosphere. Everyone is in high spirits and spirits, and often looks forward to the next step. What will be an interesting thing, will it happen to you?
Sam believes that without those entertainment and unexpected things, they would not be able to get most of the managers and employees at the Bentonville headquarters to attend meetings every Saturday morning with smiles on their faces. If there is only a monotonous and lengthy comparison of data in a meeting, followed by a serious speech about business issues, people will only doze off at the meeting, and the atmosphere will not be lively. No matter how important he thought the meeting was, everyone would find it annoying and would do no good even if it were held.
Annual Meeting
Wal-Mart's annual shareholder meeting. At first there were not many people attending, but later it grew to about 10,000 people attending every year, including a group of company branch managers and employee representatives. At the meeting, the company will briefly report the company's achievements to shareholders, and also hold award events, including the sales champion award for the department head with the best sales performance of a single product in the company, the driver's safe delivery driving award, and the most creative store product display award. and individual product sales awards, etc.
The company holds its annual shareholder meeting in order to let employees know that as managers and major shareholders, they sincerely appreciate everything they have done to make Wal-Mart a great company. And it aims to make employees more united and confident, and to bring the sincere gratitude of managers and major shareholders to every employee.
The enthusiasm displayed by Walmart employees is the best expression of their corporate culture of enthusiasm, courtesy and efficiency, and is also the most unique secret weapon for Walmart’s success. And their happiness not only permeates the company, but also infects the area where the company is located.
Wal-Mart-style cheering
The source of Walmart cheering: When Walmart founder Sam Walton visited a tennis factory in South Korea, he discovered that workers in the factory gathered together to cheer every morning. and doing gymnastics. He loved it and couldn't wait to go back and share it with his colleagues. He once said, “Because we work so hard, we all hope to have relaxed and happy moments during our work so that we don’t have to always look sad.
It’s the philosophy of “whistle at work” that not only puts us in a lighter mood, but also makes us do our jobs better because of it.
The story about "Wal-Mart Cheers" happened in 1977, when Sam and Helen went on a trip to Japan and South Korea. Sam was deeply interested in the practice of workers chanting slogans in a dirty and messy factory in South Korea. , followed suit immediately after returning to Wal-Mart. This became the famous "Wal-Mart cheer"
For a long time, Wal-Mart's corporate culture has closely united Wal-Mart's colleagues, who are full of vigor, unity and friendship. It was under this culture that they created the miracle of Wal-Mart. The following is Wal-Mart's unique cheering slogan, from which we can feel the strong sense of honor and responsibility of Wal-Mart members.