MCDONALDS FAST FOOD RESTAURANT

McDonalds Fast Food Restaurant

McDonalds Fast Food Restaurant

Introduction

This report provides the details on the recent human resource problems which took place in Macdonald's. The brief detail of the case study which will be used in this report will be given. This case study is about what the factors might have impacted upon the way of the organisation's human resource management and strategic of organisation's human resource management. In this section, it will use Mcdonald's Fast Food Chain Inc as example more specifically to analyze issues related to complex human resourcing context with a particular focus on Managing diversity and managing multicultural teams when company expands into international markets and how legislation actors affect today's management thinking and practice. The definition of the human resource Management will also be provided.

What is human resource Management?

Here is the definition of human resource Management according to Robert M Noe and R. Wayne Mondy: “The utilisation of individuals to achieve organisational objectives”. Here is another definition of human resource Management by Derek Torrington and Laura Hall: “HRM is resource-centred, directed mainly at management needs for human resources to be provided and deployed.” Human Resource Management in a business is extremely important. Good Human Resource Management can help make a successful business.

Organisational Change & Development

In order to analyze the given case of Macdonald's Fast Food Restaurant, we have to clear our concepts about the organisational change and development. This will help us to have a clear understanding of Macdonald's Fast Food Restaurant's problems.

Organisational Design is a formal, guided process for integrating the people, information and technology of an organisation. It is used to match the form of the organisation as closely as possible to the purpose(s) the organisation seeks to achieve. Through the design process, organisations act to improve the probability that the collective efforts of members will be successful.

The concept of organisation change refers to a change brought in the organisation on the organisation-wide basis, thus changing the organisational design. Organisational Change reconfigures components of an organisation to increase efficiency and effectiveness. (Lee, 2005)

It is different from the day to day changes that a company goes through like an addition of a new employee, modifying a program etc. The organisation wide changes are different from these minor day to day changes in a sense that it affects almost each and every individual of the organisation like a major restructuring of the whole organisational setup, modifications made in the company objectives, setting new missions or goals for the organisation, introduction of new technologies in the organisational setup, re-engineering, mergers etc. The only way for organisations to survive in the present highly dynamic world is to keep changing. Organisations may create changes themselves, they may change internally or they may resist change but in no way they can stop it.

The most successful organisations of the future will be those that develop and grow and to take advantage of the changes rather than to resist the change or wait until organisational change becomes ...