Mary Gundel was a celebrated Dollar General manager, at a store near Tampa. She’d received a letter from headquarters telling …
Dollar General Employee Goes Viral on TikTok, Gets Fired, Starts a Movement
01 Friday Jul 2022
Tag Archives: Human Resource Management
In a Time of Historically Low Union Membership, Workers at Amazon, Starbucks, and Apple Are Organizing
07 Tuesday Jun 2022
Forty years ago, about one in five employed Americans belonged to a union. That number declined by about half—to 10.3 …
What Does a Remote Workforce Really Mean for Workers and the Companies that Employ Them?
04 Monday Oct 2021
A work-from-home economy has cascading effects, some of which are only now being revealed, after more than a year of …
Is the Time Ripe for a New Wave of Unionizing by Retail Workers?
16 Thursday Sep 2021
In the early decades of the twentieth century, the union movement largely defined the work lives of American employees. The …
The Range of Factors Driving Retail Worker Shortages
25 Wednesday Aug 2021
The challenges associated with working retail are well known: long and sometimes inconsistent hours, having to deal with rude or …
A Team-Oriented Employment Model in Walmart Stores
17 Wednesday Feb 2021
In changing the titles and responsibilities of the people working in its stores, Walmart is attempting to reenvision what it …
Global Sneaker Culture, in Local Form, at Foot Locker Power Stores
29 Thursday Oct 2020
Sneaker culture might be global, spanning national boundaries and economic strata. But it also is distinctly local, in that sneakerheads …
Which Retailers Are Rebounding, and Which Are Still Struggling, as the Pandemic Persists? An Analysis Based on Retail Employment Numbers
21 Wednesday Oct 2020
In the United States, government stimulus efforts aimed, among other things, to encourage consumers to spend more, to keep the …
Retail Tidbit: Putting a Face to Robotic Technology
16 Thursday Apr 2020
As retail stores increasingly integrate robotic technologies to perform various mundane tasks—such as restocking shelves, unloading deliveries, and mopping up …
Managing the Sales Force and the Merchandise at Old Navy
12 Thursday Mar 2020
As Old Navy works to make it easier for consumers to buy, the jobs performed by the employees tasked with …
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