Karel Sovak asks, " what happens to the old Wal-Mart and other businesses once a Wal-Mart Supercenter comes to town?", and let's Tim Romback, manager of a WM in Minot, North Dakota, respond in full. His particular store is dominated by female managers:
The current structure is comprised of 114,000 square feet and was built in 1990. Rombach said that he also feels very strongly in defending the store against otherGood stuff, whatever your opinion on WM.inaccurate information, especially regarding female employees.
"There has been a lot of speculation and lawsuits, but I know that Wal-Mart has dealt severely with those few who have made wrong decisions," Rombach said. "I hate to see the entire organization being mislabeled or all of the associates summed up in the negative because of the deeds of a few. Integrity is an important part of being associated with Wal-Mart or I wouldn't be with the company. Thirty-five percent of the employees who started with our store 14 years ago are still here. They love what they do and the company that they work for. To the question of why aren't there more female managers, I have to ask people to just look at our store. Ninety-four percent of the managers here, within all the departments, are female. All seven of our customer service managers are female. That hasn't happened just over the past couple of years, most of them have been here all 14 years."
Posted by Kevin on November, 9 2004 at 10:30 AM
