share joys
Wal-Mart not only entertains itself, but also shares happiness with everyone, and organizes various games to entertain customers, from poetry reading to children digging up haystacks for treasure, the biggest of which is the full moon party competition.
The reason for the competition was that the assistant manager of a branch in Alabama made a mistake when ordering food at 1985, and ordered four or five more pies at once. Facing the mountain of pies that were transported to the store, he was scared himself, because it could not be stored for a long time. With a brainwave, he came up with the idea of a pie eating contest to solve the urgent need, and the result was unexpectedly good. Not only did I not waste more pies, but I also took a lot of orders for myself. Now, the full moon pie competition has become a major event of Wal-Mart every autumn. Every year on the second Saturday of June 5438+ 10, this branch holds this activity in the parking lot. The venue is crowded with people, and there will be interviews with TV and newspaper reporters.
Some things seem stupid and out of line, but as long as they really make everyone happy, Sam and his executives will be happy to do it. For example, if Sam loses a bet, he will wear a Hawaiian hula and dance hula on Wall Street. Charlie CERF, the former vice-chairman, also lost the bet, so he had to wear pink pants and a golden wig and ride a white horse in the downtown of Bentonville. Also, the staff of Sam member store told Glass, then president, to give him a pigskin coat. As a result, after the football match of the sales competition, he was given a live pig, which meant to give him a belt with meat, which made Glass feel ridiculous. All these make people feel relaxed and happy atmosphere in Wal-Mart, which is also the unique culture of Wal-Mart.
Saturday morning meeting
Saturday's weekly meeting has become a unique cultural atmosphere of Wal-Mart. At this time, under the leadership of Sam, everyone will do aerobics from time to time, sometimes sing songs, and sometimes simply shout slogans. They can do whatever they want anyway. As long as it can enliven the atmosphere, they can try at will.
Sometimes, Wal-Mart also invites some special guests to attend meetings to help entertain them. People in the sports entertainment circle will also give Wal-Mart face. Sidney Monclerev and Fran Tarkenton both attended Wal-Mart parties. Garth brooks, a country singer from Oklahoma, also attended Wal-Mart's Saturday Weekly Meeting, bringing beautiful songs to the participants. Managers sometimes even go into battle in person. For example, Sam and sugar ray leonard had a simulated boxing match in the competition field.
In this way, many serious and important business topics can be easily discussed and discussed in a freewheeling and active atmosphere. Everyone is full of energy and energetic, and often waits for what the next interesting thing will be and whether it will happen to them.
Sam thinks that without those entertainments and unexpected things, it is impossible for them to make most managers and employees in Bentonville headquarters go to the meeting with smiles every Saturday morning. If there are only monotonous and lengthy comparative data at the meeting, and then serious business issues are spoken, it will only make people doze off at the meeting and the atmosphere will be inactive. No matter how important he thinks the meeting is, everyone will feel bored, even if it is held, it will be useless.
Year-end party
Wal-Mart's annual general meeting of shareholders. At first, there were not many participants, but later it grew to about 10000 people per year, including a group of branch managers and employee representatives. At the meeting, the company will briefly report the company's achievements to shareholders, and will also hold awards, including the sales champion award, the driver's safe freight driving award, the branch's most innovative product display award and the single product competition award to the department heads with the best single product sales performance.
The company holds the annual general meeting of shareholders, hoping that employees know that as managers and major shareholders, they sincerely thank them for everything they have done for Wal-Mart to become a big company. And it aims to make employees more United and confident, and bring the sincere thanks of managers and major shareholders to every employee.
The enthusiasm of Wal-Mart employees is the best embodiment of its warm, polite and efficient corporate culture, and it is also the most unique secret weapon for Wal-Mart's success. And their happiness not only permeates the company, but also infects the region where the company is located.
Walmart-style cheers
The source of Wal-Mart cheers: When sam walton, the founder of Wal-Mart, visited a Korean tennis factory, he found that the workers in the factory gathered together to cheer and do gymnastics every morning. He likes this practice very much and can't wait to go back and share it with his colleagues. He once said, "Because we work so hard, we all hope to have a relaxed and happy time in the process of working, so that we don't always have to look sad." This is the philosophy of whistling at work. We will not only have a relaxed mood, but also do our work better.
"Cheers from Wal-Mart" was on 1977, when Sam and Helen went to Japan and South Korea. Sam was deeply interested in the way workers shouted slogans in a dirty and messy factory in South Korea, and immediately followed suit when he returned to Wal-Mart. This was later known as "Wal-Mart Cheers".
For a long time, Wal-Mart's corporate culture has closely United employees, who are full of vitality, unity and friendship. It is in this culture that they created the miracle of Wal-Mart. The following is Wal-Mart's unique refueling slogan, from which we can feel the strong sense of honor and responsibility of Wal-Mart members.