ERIC Number: ED623513
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2021-Sep
Pages: 13
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Study Shows the Benefits of Walmart Education Effort: Retail Giant's Live Better U Program Is Proving Its Value. Lumina Issue Paper
Glover, Haley
Lumina Foundation
A study from Lumina Foundation and Walmart shows how Walmart's Live Better U employee education initiative improves outcomes for associates and for Walmart. The report focuses on measurable impact for participating associates and includes disaggregated outcomes by race and ethnicity. Specifically, it shows how Walmart's employees of color use and benefit from the program alongside white colleagues. The analysis narrows in on Walmart's hourly associates, who constitute 94 percent of its total workforce. [Additional assistance for this research was provided by Guild Education.]
Descriptors: Retailing, Corporations, Workplace Learning, Employees, Minority Groups, Educational Benefits, Labor Force Development, Labor Turnover, Promotion (Occupational), Personnel Evaluation, Credentials, Corporate Education, Recognition (Achievement)
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Lumina Foundation; Walmart; Accenture
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