INTRODUCTION
This application links you to web sites of three Fortune 500 companies. Each web site provides information on the role that the organizational culture and climate factor of each company's internal environment plays in organizational success. The relation of internal and external environmental factors to organizational outcomes, and how human resource management systems foster desired organizational outcomes, is discussed in Chapter 5 of French's Human Resource Management, 4th ed.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Having successfully completed this application, you will be able to:

• Identify specific elements of a Fortune 500 company's organizational culture that are part of its internal environment.
• Identify and explain key aspects of Wal-Mart's organizational culture.
• Explain how work/life surveys are important to the corporate human resources strategy of a Fortune 500 company.
• Explain in process-systems terminology how the practice of human resource management is clearly reflected in the core values of a Fortune 500 company.

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS AND ASSESSMENT QUESTIONS Instruction 1: Access the following web site: http://www.walmartstores.com/ and click on About Wal-Mart. Answer Questions 1, 2 and 3.
Question 1: What is Wal-Mart's "Sundown Rule?"
Question 2: What is the meaning of Wal-Mart's "Ten-Foot Rule"
Question 3: What is the significance of the Wal-Mart Cheer?

Instruction 2: Access the following web site: http://www.ibm.com and answer Questions 4 and 5.
Question 4: What are the reasons to work at IBM?
Question 5: What are the quality-of-life benefits that go beyond the compensation at IBM?

Instruction 3: Access the following web site: http://www.pg.com/ and click on the following in sequence: "About P & G" … "Overview & Facts" … "Purpose, Values, Principles" … "Core Values"… and answer Questions 6 and 7.
Questions 6: What are the six core values of P&G?
Question 7: Chapter 1 of the French's Human Resource Management, 4th ed. describes the practice of human resource management in process-systems terminology and identifies the following processes: 1) human resource planning; 2) job and work design; 3) staffing; 4) training and development; 5) performance appraisal and review; 6) compensation and reward; 7) employee protection and representation; and 8) organizational improvement. Which of these HRM processes are clearly reflected in the core value P&G People?