An Evaluation of Total Quality Management Implementation at McDonald's

This report delves into McDonald's implementation of Total Quality Management (TQM) to maintain its competitive edge in the fast-food industry. It examines various TQM tools employed by McDonald's, including setting quality standards, comparing performance against these standards, employee training programs, survey methods for gathering customer feedback, and the Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) cycle. The report outlines the implementation methods for each tool, considering factors like hygiene, fresh product usage, and employee capabilities. Furthermore, it evaluates the success of these implementation techniques by assessing McDonald's global presence and focus on customer and employee satisfaction, with the ultimate goal of reducing production costs and boosting overall performance. The report also touches upon change management strategies and concludes with recommendations to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the quality management tools used by the organization.

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Total Quality Management Tool used by McDonald’s...................................................................3
Implementation methods of Total quality management tool...........................................................6
Evaluation of success of Implementation techniques......................................................................7
Organization Dealt with the change................................................................................................9
Recommendation & Conclusion....................................................................................................10
References......................................................................................................................................11

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Introduction
Organization needs to develop their effective image in the dynamic business environment and in
order to develop effective image, organization needs to adopt certain policies and strategies
through which they could maintain the quality of the products and services they offer to its
consumers. This is the most effective and impressive tool through which organization could
attain its desired goals and the objectives. Apart from this, it is also useful in setting up great
image in the dynamic business environment as well as it provides adequate competitive
advantage to the organization. Under this report, total quality management tools used by the
McDonald's will be discussed. McDonald’s have developed their effective position in the fast
food industry across the globe. From the initial period, they have continuously improved quality
of their products. This is the major reason they have attained adequate competitive advantage in
the fast food industry amongst the global fast food industry. McDonald’s is a part of fast food
industry and they are famous for producing vegetarian and non-vegetarian burgers, French fries,
wraps, coffee, juices, etc. In some places, they have also started the doorstep delivery facility for
enhancing the consumer’s experience better.
In this report, tool used by the McDonald's for enhancing its quality of products will be discussed
and apart from this, appropriate analysis will be conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of the
tools used by the organization to enhance their quality of the products offered to the consumers.
Along with the tool used by McDonald’s in order to increase the quality of their products,
implementation methods of the total quality management tool will also be covered. In the next
phase of the report, effectiveness of the implementation techniques will be identified and apart
from this analysis, organization’s change management strategies will also be discussed. In the

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last part of the report, recommendations will be provided in order to improve the effectiveness
and the efficiency of the quality management tools used by the organizational management to
attain desired goals and the objectives.

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Total Quality Management Tool used by McDonald’s
There are numbers of tools available through which organization could enhance their quality of
services and products delivered by them. Following are some of them:
Setting Quality Standards: McDonald’s uses this technique on the priority basis for enhancing
the quality of food delivered by them. The speciality of their products is the taste, they offer.
McDonald’s is an American multinational fast food chain which is also situated in various parts
of the world. But the taste of their products remains same at every store, be it a franchised store
or a self-maintained store. Management of the McDonald's has developed certain quality
measures which are to be followed by every outlet across the globe in order to maintain the same
taste of the products delivered by them. Apart from this, management of the organization has
certain secret formulas which are not being shared with any of the store member or with any
customer. This has been in order to maintain the quality of the products because this is the
primary reason for huge demand of the fast food items delivered by MacDonald’s (Dale, 2015).
Comparing the performance with the standards: McDonald’s has adopted this strategy under
which, performance attained by the organization is matched up with the standards set up by the
management for evaluating the effectiveness of the strategies used by the organization (Goetsch
& Davis, 2014). After evaluating the outcomes from comparing the performance attained and the
performance expected as per the standards set up by the organization, relevant factors will be
analysed for determining the reason for declined performance attained. On the other hand, if the
outcomes will be more in relevance with the performance expected, then the strategies used for

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attaining the performance will be accepted and implemented for other outlets in order to attain
adequate goals and the objectives of the organization (Mitra, 2016).
Training: This is the crucial factor of management process. Until the employees of the
organization will not be trained, they will not be able to provide adequate services to customers.
Adaptation of training and counselling sessions will help them to gather adequate amount of
information in relevance with the working procedures of the organization. This will help them to
serve in an effective manner to the customers as well as it will also help them to resolve their
queries too. Apart from this, this measure also helps the organization to attain overall goals and
the objectives in an effective manner (Nadeem, et. al., 2013).
(Source: Quantisoft, 2016).

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Survey: Above diagram shows the survey method of enhancing the quality of the organization.
This is crucial component for the management in order to manage the quality feature of the
organization. In terms of McDonald’s, quality is the primary component for attaining goals and
the objectives. Till the time, consumer will not get the adequate quality of food for which they
paid for, product will not be able to fulfil their needs and it will affect the organizational
performance in a negative manner. This process is used for reaching the desired destination
through which appropriate decisions could be taken for improving the organizational
performance. It can be executed internally as well as externally. Initially, it analyses the issues
and challenges which are affecting the organizational performance in negative aspect. After
analysing the issues and the challenges, with the help of survey technique, customers and
employees are asked to provide their opinions from their perception through which organization
could enhance their performance (Kim & Hyun, 2011).
With the help of outcomes generated from the method of survey, on the basis of priority or the
most effective idea will be implemented within the workplace in order to attain adequate goals
and the objectives of the organization.

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(Source: mindtools.com, 2016).
Plan-Do-Act-Check: Above figure shows the plan-do-act-check model which was invented by
the American Engineer Dr. W. Edwards Deming in order to analyse the organizational
performance as well as to update the strategies used by the organization for reaching to the
desired destination which could generate growth and expansion opportunities for the
organization. This model has four stages i.e. plan, do, act and check.
 Plan: The most effective plan identified by the management of the organization is being
selected and its effectiveness is determined on the basis of organizational structure of
McDonald’s. Further, appropriate factors will be analysed in order to select the most
appropriate plan for the organization in order to improve the level of quality offered by

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the organization. This will provide adequate competitive advantage to the organization in
the dynamic business environment.
 Do: Under this step, the selected plan for enhancing the performance of the organization
will be implemented.
 Check: The performance attained form the implementation of the above selected plan
will be measured so as to analyse the effectiveness of the method (Johnston & Bate,
2013).
 Act: Under this step, appropriate measures will be adopted through which errors found in
the above step will be removed as well as amendments will be done if required.

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Implementation methods of Total quality management tool
Implementation methods used for executing the total quality management tools are unique on the
basis of the tools. As there are numbers of tools have been used by McDonald’s in order to
enhance their performance, in the same manner, various and unique methods are available
through which these tools could be implemented in an adequate manner (Taylor, et. al., 2013).
Till the time, execution of the total quality management tool will not be done in appropriate
manner; organization will not be able to matchup with the targets set up by the management of
the McDonald’s. Following are certain techniques and methods through which the above quality
management tools will be implemented in the workplace:
Quality Standards: For setting up the quality standards for the organization, various aspects
need to be evaluated such as the current offering quality by the organization to its consumers,
ratings given by the consumers, cost incurred, etc. These are certain aspects which affect the
decision of setting up the quality standards for the organization. Hygiene, usage of fresh
products, etc. will act as the crucial element of the McDonald’s in terms of setting up the quality
standards for the organization. Setting quality standards for the McDonald’s should also be
developed after considering the values of the consumers, for which the consumer is paying, the
same value is being offered to them or not, quality of the products should be able to maximise
the satisfaction level of the consumers (Willemink, et. al., 2013).
Comparing the performance attained with the standards: For implementing this technique in
the workplace, organization needs to consider aspects such as capabilities of the employees,

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environmental conditions, etc. These are the elements which play crucial role in implementing
the standards in the workplace (Aaker, 2010).
Training: Before implementing the training and counselling session strategies for managing and
enhancing the quality offered by the organization, requirement of the organization should be
analysed. As per the requirements of the organization, appropriate training and counselling
methods will be used in relevance with enhancing the capabilities of employees. This will
enhance the consumer’s experience as well as it will help the organisation to attain its desired
goals and the objectives (Akaka, et. al., 2013).
Survey: It is the technique through which organization could enhance its customer’s experience
and it is also effective in avoiding the issues and the challenges faced by the organization.
Customers can share their experience in relevance with their expectations from the organization
against their spending. Survey technique is for two purposes i.e. to analyse the changes required
from the customer’s perception and another change is required from the perception of the
employees. Their reviews should also be taken on the priority basis and appropriate changes
should be made in order to match up with the standards built up for boosting up the performance
(Ang, Benischke & Doh, 2015).
Plan-Do-act-check: This is the crucial factor which could boost up the quality of the
organization but it is the duty of the management to analyse the challenges and the issues
involved in the procedure of the organization. This is necessary for removing the barriers which
affects the organizational performance. In order to boost up the performance of the organization,
primary factor of the organization needs to be considered i.e. quality of the food items delivered

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to the consumers. This technique will be proved as the effects through which organization could
attain its desired goals and the objectives (Angeloska-Dichovska & Mirchevska, 2017).
Evaluation of success of Implementation techniques
Primary motive behind the total quality management implementation for the McDonald’s is to
enhance effectiveness in the global fast food chain industry. Attainment of competitive
advantage is another big factor for adopting the quality management tools (Helms & Nixon,
2010). Apart from these benefits, McDonald’s another motives for implementing the quality
management tools is to reduce its cost of the production, to boost up the performance through
providing customer satisfaction. Along with this, employee satisfaction is another major factor
through which organization could attain adequate success because they are the crucial element of
processing all the organizational activities in smooth way.