Analyzing People Management: McDonald's HR Functions and Objectives

This report provides an analysis of people management at McDonald's, focusing on the HR department's role, functions, and key resourcing activities such as planning, recruitment, and selection. It examines McDonald's organizational objectives, including their global expansion and customer satisfaction goals, and evaluates factors affecting effective HR practices, such as technological, environmental, political, global, and competitive factors, as well as internal factors like employees, culture, organizational structure, and financing position. The report also includes a personal reflection on the learning gained from analyzing McDonald's HR practices. The conclusion emphasizes the importance of effective HR functions for organizational success and recommends strategic planning to achieve objectives. This document is available on Desklib, where students can find a variety of solved assignments and past papers.

Managing people

Table of content
• Introduction and Organisational objectives
• HR department and its evaluation
• HR functions and key resourcing activities
• Planning
• Recruitment and selection
• Organizational objectives
• Factors affect effective HR practices
• Conclusion
• References

Introduction
• Managing people is one if the wide topic which include to develop, organize and
problem solving approach for growing the employee's side of the business.
• This report choose the base company as MC Donald, is an American company
which was founded in 1940 by Richard and Maurice McDonald.
• This report includes about the different business environment that can be related
to internal and external factors.

HR department and its evaluation
• The use of HR department within the large multinational organization like MC
Donald are able to work effectively and provide policies, procedure and
documentation process for identifying the organization need and complete their
basic objectives by introducing new people to the organization.

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HR functions and key resourcing activities
• In context to MC Donald, the main HR Functions are related to employees
engagement and their high performance towards the goals, focusing on the
individuals need and provide a more flexible business environment in an
effective manner.
• The HR of the company provide their outcomes in terms of commitments,
quality and flexibility approach.

1. Resourcing activity- Planning
• The use of succession planning is one of the most effective process which are beneficial for
contingencies in the case of employees life cycle.
• It further provides a significant growth in creation of talent pipeline. It further provides a pool of
talented people who are leaving the use of improvement to make communication, interpersonal
and human relations skills.
• It further provides a growth in managing the task to complete higher level of efficiency in gaining
appropriate growth in managing future activities

2. Resourcing activity - Recruitment and
selections
• The use of recruitment and selection process is one of the complex task within the organisation.
It is one of the visible and effective element of HR of the company that is related to having HR
functions and complete their responsibility towards organisation.
• These two process is used by HR of MC Donald by opening the job opportunities within the
company and go through with the all applied candidates.
• HR is using pre-employee tools which help the HR to complete their basic needs and provide a
wide range of possibilities to complete effective process and management techniques.

Organisational objectives
• MC Donald has run its business growth in US and now the company serve their
services in more than 119 countries across the world. The company provide wide
range of products and their aim is to make good food services for providing a
great value chain in a friendly.
• To analyse the business environment and work effectively into the environment is
basically related to completed work activities and manage the quick food access
and the use of customer's satisfaction.
• According to the records the company make $100 billion sales in 2019 for almost
4% of the estimated growth in 42.5 trillion global industries

Factors affect effective HR practices
• MC Donald suffer from having effective decision making process which is work as the
heart of driving safety and stay focused on different crew and corporative employees.
• Along with organisation to make pandemic which meant to complete MC Donald for
now re-examine the thinking approach which are basically helpful for make post
pandemic opportunities
• The major Covid-19 impact fells down by 23.9% for the second quarter which is ended
in June 30. MC Donald have been struggling to make a cope up with online for pickup,
delivery and drive process.

External factors
• Technological factors: MC Donald needed to make effective
technological advancement and it will make a course of actions which
make an effect in coming decades.
• Environmental factors: At the starting of 2020, climate change, global
pandemic and other different factors are used to make a strong impact in
their industries.

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• Political factors: As MC Donald is providing their services across the
world and replace with implementing basic activities that can affect the
business functions.
• Global factors: The impact of Covid-19 will basically related to pandemic
work factors which affect the operational perspective in effective manner.
• Competitive factors: MC Donald face the major impact in competitive
factors and it can be solved by proper analysing and tracking the records
of their competitors.

Internal factors
• Employees: Having talented human resource relates to people and work in
business organisation. The HR of MC Donald have the power to influence
their employees decision making process, creating policies and setting
budget.
• Culture: It is basically related to how the things done within the
organisation and make effective attitudes, belief and values and the norms
which are visible for the employees success and growth.

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• Organisational structure: MC Donald have organisational
structure which are helpful for completing higher efficiency.
• Financing position: A business need financing activities which
are helpful to survive and grow the business operations.

Personal reflection
• From the above case study, I have analyse that working effectively into the
market and gain higher influencing knowledge about the company and their
processing system.
• I analyse that how the use of HR department and its evaluation is so
important for the large scale organisation.
• I faced difficulties in managing platform to complete the working and could
be done in an effective and better situations.

Conclusion
• From the above presentation, it has been analysed that the use of effective HR functions within the organisation
are related to make successful growth and practices in future market.
• It is further analysed that the use of HR functions and its interrelation with organisational objective are efficient
for the growth in managing practices.
• So, it is determined that the company should provide a suitable growth and productive practices to make
strategic plans to achieve objectives.

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