Walmart's Hourly Associates
In my opinion, Walmart prefer to recruit new store managers from its large pool of hourly associates because, it works out a lot better for Walmart to promote from within the company. By promoting hourly associates, it makes it easier on Walmart because they don’t have to train their higher up employees everything. The people being promoted from within already know the system and how Walmart runs things. Other than that, this is also motivation for Walmart employees to stay at the company, for the chance to move up. The same thing goes for potential employees wanting to work there. If 75% of store managers actually started out as hourly associates, wouldn’t you want to work there too? This is a very good way for Walmart to run their