Decathlon
INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
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Simona Chelaru
Lucian Moisuc
MaryamEL ALAMI
Cluj Napoca
2013
DECATHLON
1. Why we choose Decathlon?
Have you ever been to Polus Center Cluj? It’s impossible not to see the big sign of the store Decathlon. Even though you don’t need something from the store, you enter just to take a look. You see nice people smiling, asking if you need any help, they also have a nice machine, near the cash register, with a big smiley face and a button. Each customer, if it’s satisfied with the services can press the button and they can count the happy customers.
You can find in the store anything you want related to sports, you can even try them on; you can play to see if the equipment fits. Each sport, every product has a well defined place on the shelf for the customers to find very easy what they want.
On the official website of the company and the recruitment site, the store presents the good side of the company. They look happy, professional, ecological and also customer oriented. In this essay we will try to present the good and the bad parts of the company, using information from their websites, from forums, from people that experienced the recruitment process of the store and from people that had work or still working over there.
2. Who is Decathlon?
The first Decathlon store is opened in 1976 in Englos, northern France, with a clear concept to bring together all sports under one roof, at the best possible price. In 1986, the company decided to develop international and is opening the first store outside France, in Dortmund, Germany and after that in Barcelona, Milano, London and many others. The first Decathlon store opens in Romania in 2009, in Bucharest.
Almost every organisation has a culture that fairly dictates its everyday functioning. According to Edgar Schein, “Cultural understanding is desirable
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Simona Chelaru
Lucian Moisuc
MaryamEL ALAMI
Cluj Napoca
2013
DECATHLON
1. Why we choose Decathlon?
Have you ever been to Polus Center Cluj? It’s impossible not to see the big sign of the store Decathlon. Even though you don’t need something from the store, you enter just to take a look. You see nice people smiling, asking if you need any help, they also have a nice machine, near the cash register, with a big smiley face and a button. Each customer, if it’s satisfied with the services can press the button and they can count the happy customers.
You can find in the store anything you want related to sports, you can even try them on; you can play to see if the equipment fits. Each sport, every product has a well defined place on the shelf for the customers to find very easy what they want.
On the official website of the company and the recruitment site, the store presents the good side of the company. They look happy, professional, ecological and also customer oriented. In this essay we will try to present the good and the bad parts of the company, using information from their websites, from forums, from people that experienced the recruitment process of the store and from people that had work or still working over there.
2. Who is Decathlon?
The first Decathlon store is opened in 1976 in Englos, northern France, with a clear concept to bring together all sports under one roof, at the best possible price. In 1986, the company decided to develop international and is opening the first store outside France, in Dortmund, Germany and after that in Barcelona, Milano, London and many others. The first Decathlon store opens in Romania in 2009, in Bucharest.
Almost every organisation has a culture that fairly dictates its everyday functioning. According to Edgar Schein, “Cultural understanding is desirable
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