McDonald's CEO

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Question no. 1
Ray Kroc first established the McDonald’s franchise in the year 1955 in Illinois. It
was one of the many restaurants that it started to expand in every part of the USA within next
20 years. Now in every developed and developing countries have McDonald branches in their
notable cities. In Australia, the McDonald store was established in Sydney in the year 1971.
After a decade in 1985 the Ronald McDonald house Charity had been registered as n an
Australian charity (Mcdonalds.com.au 2019). In 1986 the company established its 9000
restaurant it in Sydney weather every of these stores had employees on an average hundred
stuff in 1993, Melbourne had the country’s first McCafe and till 2018 McDonald’s has been
operating in 900 stores in all over Australia.
Question no. 2
As an organisation McDonald’s has a very strong vision mission and values
statement. The purpose of this company is to achieve the company’s values through the
support of the stakeholders including the employees as well as customers. The purpose of this
organisation is the driving force which defines the reason for their operation. This encourages
the customers to know what the company actually is and what their overreaching goals are.
Along with this the outwitting goals of the company and who they are serving has been also
detailed (Erasmus, Strydom and Rudansky-Kloppers 2016). The company is highly dedicated
to meet the purpose of having satisfaction through customer service and support the
communities associated with the function of the company. This aims to provide a stable and a
pleasant positive work environment for the employees. The company believes that it needs to
maintain method of continuous innovation and operations so that profitability can be
achieved in one hand and gain the support of the communities on the other. The chief aim of

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the company is to value the experience of the customers in the stores which will be insured
through the services provided by the customers.
Question no. 3
The managers of the company are known for undertaking different functions in their
workplace which includes planning, leading, organising and controlling the objects, elements
and the subordinates. These four functions can be divided into different activities and the
roles of the managers. Despite the fact that every level of management can perform every
function to some extend but some amount of emphasis are out on every function that varies
from department to department (Vivaldini and Pires 2016). The planning function is related
with the purpose of the organisation and how this purpose will be properly executed. The
name of the managers always remain to keep the employees motivated and focused to
achieve the common goal. In this case Andrew Gregory will play the role of the entrepreneurs
who will search the micro environment of opportunities for improving effectiveness to meet
their purpose. He will be planning perfect organisational structure that would suit the
operations of the company. Comparatively assistant manager will be thinking about the
managerial staffs as well as plan for assigning them with the role in which they will perform
their best (Noe et al. 2017). Andrew Gregory job focuses on a big picture where the company
we will meet its purpose and the assistant manager would focus on planning a direct task of
the employees.
In the case of organising function of the CEO Andrew Gregory will play the role of
the resource locator where is the assistant manager will organise off the non-managerial
employees for setting up the promotion in store. The decision of Andrew Gregory will be
different from that of assistant manager because this will involve distribution of promotional