Sam Walton's (WALMART) Management style
...oday, but Walton was among the first to implement them. Walton believed that a happy employee meant happy customers and more sales. Walton believed that by giving employees a part of the company and making their success dependent on the company's success, they would care about the company. These were the words from past Employees that were alive in the time of Sam’s legacy. To me managers have lost the ability to listen to the people that they manage. Employees believe that Sam Walton was a manger that listened to his employee as stated in this article Sam Walton made his employee feel that they were just as important as the top people in his company. He did this because they were the people that had made him a successful man. "A lot of people are pretty illiterate," one union organizer sneers. "And if Mr. Sam comes and shakes their hand, and listens to them, that's the greatest thing that ever happened. It don't matter that he did nothing-just that he sat there and listened to you." So if Sam Walton were still alive, would things be different? There is no doubt that as Wal-Mart expanded geographically (north and west) and temporally (to the 24-hour store), Wal-Mart with or without Walton was going to collide with the demands of the supercenter, the urban store, and the 24-hour economy. Would Sam Walton have stuck to the deal he made with workers? Modified it? It's hard to say. Walton never believed he'd open the stores on Sundays, and then he did. On October 28th 2003 the entrepreneurial spirit soared. Several hundred members of the Entrepreneurs Association heard personal stories about the man many call th...