McDonald's People Management: HR Functions, Objectives, and Factors

This essay provides an analysis of McDonald's human resource practices, focusing on key functions such as recruitment, training, and employee management. It evaluates the role of the HR department in achieving organizational objectives, including sustainability and profitability. The essay explores the impact of both external factors like technological advancements, environmental concerns, political climates, and competitive pressures, as well as internal factors such as employee culture, organizational structure, and financial position on HR effectiveness. It also includes a personal reflection on the learning process and potential improvements in data collection and analysis. The study concludes that effective cost control in planning and recruitment, along with managing internal and external factors, are crucial for McDonald's organizational success. Desklib provides access to similar solved assignments and study resources for students.

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Table of Contents
Introduction.....................................................................................................................................3
Main Body.......................................................................................................................................4
Human resource department and its evaluation......................................................................4
HR functions and key resourcing activities............................................................................5
Planning.............................................................................................................................6
Recruitment and selections................................................................................................7
Organisational objectives.......................................................................................................8
Factors affect effective HR practices.....................................................................................9
External factors.....................................................................................................................10
Internal factors......................................................................................................................12
Personal reflection................................................................................................................13
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................14
References.....................................................................................................................................15
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Introduction
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These skills are related to range from being able to mediate the personality that can clash
between the team members. It is effective and appropriate for building the team and make
effective team management strategies for the growth of business functions (Cartwright, Davies
and Archer-Brown, 2021). The headquartered of the company is in Chicago, United States In
addition to this, management of organisational objectives within resourcing the activities that are
related to HR functions that are responsible for delivering the outcomes.
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Main Body
Human resource department and its evaluation
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When it comes to managing HR functions and evaluate the success of business strategies for
managing employees and their ability to deliver the outcome. Some of the major functions which
HR department of MC Donald are used to manage effective ensuring training process,
monitoring the employee's capabilities, recruiting the new talent succession planning and
manage them in an effective manner.
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HR functions and key resourcing activities
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Within an organisation is responsible for managing employees and their life cycle. It is
responsible for managing the people that are related to recruiting, hiring, on-boarding and firing
to make employees benefits. They further provide conclusion fashioning process that include
decision making process to make healthy and trusted workplace environment (Harris and Brown,
2021). It further provides some ways to collect a process and achieve the goals and make a plan
for accountable for providing roles and have an opportunity to provide a significant growth in
analysing the challenges related to organisational objectives.
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Planning
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It is basically helpful in managing and addressing the business events related to performance
ratings and L&D efforts. It further provides a significant growth in creation of talent pipeline.
With the help of effective planning process, the company and their team are able to gain higher
efficiency to achieve benefits and provide wide range of possibilities in different platform
(Jackson and Dunn-Jensen, 2021). This is helpful to the company by make a pre-planning for the
recruitment and selection of the company. The use of succession planning provides a wide range
of objectives to the HR which become the responsibility to complete and accomplish the task in
different ways. It furthermore helps to identify the goals and prepare for future planning that a
leader needed to be make an impact and find a way for getting a higher level of efficiency in
accomplish the targets.
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Recruitment and selections
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Recruiting the candidate and select the best one which are helpful and related to organisational
perspective in different ways. An interview is organised which further helpful in growing
through with job related question with each choose candidates. Furthermore, employment test,
skill test, job related knowledge is analysed and tests to complete the process of HR function in
an effective manner. It is further analysed to complete the task and achieve higher level of
activities to make recruitment and selection process. It further helps in managing and analysing
work activities to complete basic activities (Kim and et.al., 2021). It is further analysing that the
use of successful recruitment and selection process the candidate to make next round and
complete the interviewed process to receive a successful business environment within the
organisation. With the use of this HR function or practice, MC Donald is able to complete basic
activities and achieve higher efficiency in planning and achieving objectives of the company.
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Organisational objectives
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The company is providing wide range of winning formula to make an effective organisational
reinvention for getting effective MC Donald strategies. Their main focus is to emphasize the
sustainability, sustainability and accountability for managing people and addressing issues in one
to one approaches. It further helps in analysing and managing the activities to increased profit
and recreate the environment in an effective manner (Charlesworth, 2021). It further helps in
managing and analysing the work to deliver the concepts to make a planned and effective
outcome. Fort make a growth and development in different HR functions such as resourcing
activities and its responsible events are analysed to complete working activities in an effective
and appropriate ways by considering internal and external factors.
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Factors affect effective HR practices
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It further provides a significant growth in new headquartered and from then company is required
to make strategic cross-functional team of HR department (Kislov and et.al., 2021). The
company is using effective and flexible approaches which need a strong foundation after the
outbreak of Covid-19. There is different economic uncertainty which are related to gain higher
efficiency to make encourage to make new deals and offering process. It further provides a
significant growth in analyse future challenges and make a negative impact of pandemic. To get
out from the outbreak, MC Donald uses and make effective US restaurant chains and retailing
activities which helps in covering the mandatory forces in US market. There are different
employees and process are managing at their stores in US and employees would offer that no one
can enter into their restaurant without a mask.
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External factors
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The process for managing external factors which is important to make a change and can be cause
of direct and indirect relationship with business operations, personnel growth and revenue. Some
of them are related to:
 Technological factors: The use of AI technologies, block chain facilities and quantum of
computing process with mass arrival and machines will affect the growth and
productivity of MC Donald. After the outbreak of Covid-19 their management system is
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become more effective and use upgraded technologies for providing best services and
food to their customers.
 Environmental factors: It further provides a growth in managing and addressing lock-
down impact and people concern related to sustainable and healthy foods (Mahboub and
et.al., 2021). For this MC Donald take different actions to considered effective growth
and achieve people concern and demand in market.
 Political factors: Having inconsistent nature of politics, business monitor and make
potential changes. The use of appropriate taxation, tariffs, competition regulation, import
restriction and other rights. MC Donald faces wide range of issues to work at global level
and complete all countries policies which are altered after the outbreak of Covid-19.
 Global factors: It further makes a significant growth in managing and analysing the
future growth in food industry after the outbreak of Covid-19. Furthermore, it is
analysing that long-lasting impact of Covid-19 to have long lasting societal effects. These
are mainly related to taxation, export import policies, laws and other policies which
affect the growth of the company.
 Competitive factors: It can identify the process and manage successful growth and
challenges to make in-corporative factors for products changes, relaunching and new
product development (Mazuze, Dicko and Aly, 2021).
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Internal factors
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The internal factors of the company are basically related to internal and external environment of
the company and it make the successful impact and approaches of their operations. The role of
the company is basically related to make essential internal factors and provide a leadership to
gain style and manage effective culture. MC Donald have a strong image in managing their
internal factors. Some of them are explained below:
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Employees: The HR of MC Donald have the power to influence their employee’s
decision-making process, creating policies and setting budget. The employees of MC Donald is
able to complete their higher level productivity, training and motivational factors which provide
a significant growth in managing basic activities.
Culture It is related to efficient staff union, corporative culture, clear mission statement
and relevant trainings. These are in favour of MC Donald and provide a high-level motivation to
their employees and growth by HR manager (Mishra, Sarkar and Ghoshal, 2021).
Organisational structure: It further provides a significant growth in addressing issues
and make structure to achieve higher efficiency in managing platform and gain higher efficiency.
Financing position: It further need to complete effective process and introduce new
innovative food items for their customers. MC Donald have effective financing position as after
the outbreak of Covid-19 the company has faced decline sales volume. But now they are
recovering from major sources of finance (Stadler, 2021).
Personal reflection
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I learn the major ways to handle HR functions and how these functions and activities can get
influenced through the internal and external process. I found difficulties in collecting secondary
information and manage that data in an effective format. Furthermore, for the future activities, I
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think that the use of data collection and interpretation can be done in more better ways. With the
more time slot, I can do more research which is effective and helpful for my future action plans.
Conclusion
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The HR of the company use cost controlling process while working through planning,
recruitment and selection process. Since, the achievement of organisational depends on internal
and external factors of the company.
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