Mcdonald's Ethical Challenges

“Mickey D” as some call it has many fans, but with fans come haters. A few years back Mcdonald’s had a fake meat scandal which stopped many customers from ordering food. We soon found out that there was real meat, but also something called ammonium hydroxide or ¨Pink slime¨. Thankfully though Mcdonald's has stopped using this product in their meat. But according to https://www.thankyourbody.com/mcdonalds-hamburger/ “ the vast majority of fast food beef comes from CAFO (concentrated agricultural feeding operation) cows. Not only is this horrible for the animals and the environment, but eating meat from sick animals will only make you sick. Eat a McDonald’s hamburger and you might be getting a mouth full of antibiotics, hormones, and dangerous

When an ethical dilemma turns to lies. On Oct. 20, 2014, Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke shot 17-year-old Laquan McDonald sixteen times. Once the tape was released thirteen month later, the relationship between the community, the mayor, and the Chicago Police Department was shattered.

The company Tim Hortons proves to be a very ethical company, for many reasons. The corporation prides itself with giving back to the community, and being overall an ethical company through the many community services, and charity programs, and environmental efforts they provide. Also, the corporation proves to be ethical through not only the way they train all employees to understand the company’s policies on ethics, but also through their treatment of all employees throughout the time they work at Tim Hortons.

McDonald’s, founded by Ray Kroc, is now one of the most popular fast food restaurants across the world. They’ve proudly served more than 46 million customers in

McDonalds is one of the world’s largest franchises. It falls under the fast food franchise and is a leader in this industry with roughly 36900 operating stores worldwide.

McDonald's was the only fast food joint in the 60’s that did unusual things for business.Kids were devouring 6.2 burgers per week during the year of 1966.McDonald's turned kids into burger munching maniacs.McDonald’s used a form of advertising to lure kids into eating their products.They roughly estimated that 800 MILLION burgers were sold by the year of 1963.McDonald’s was a very successful business during the time.McDonald’s was able to brag to the press how successful they were in business.McDonald’s apparently a secret backup plan to make them look good during the time.McDonald’s didn’t hire women.Ray kroc said that “we don’t need female help” as he told the press.During that time they didn’t need from females.They felt as if they created

There are many cultural and ethical differences between countries and it is important for mutual trust and respect that no organization try to strong-arm another into their way of thinking or take a position that their culture is more valuable than the other. According to Pitta, Fung, and Isberg (1999), it is vital for success to have a basic understanding of the culture and the expectations within cultures as they affect all business transactions. Failing to understand and consider the cultural differences will likely result in failure.

Ethics- Ethics are defined as what society determines is right or wrong. Or a persons’ moral principles that determine if something they do or are going to is ethical or morally right. In a business however, the business management or CEO will write up a set of rules that they determine are the correct moral principles that need to followed when in the business. In terms of the film Ray is extremely unethical because he completely steals Dick and Mac’s McDonalds restaurant business and Brand. He does this slowly by unethically breaching his contract and as Ray opens and sells more franchises he starts to take over McDonalds and makes decisions without correctly consulting the 2 brothers.

I recall hearing about a case years ago when a lady sued McDonald’s over a spilled cup of coffee. I remember thinking to myself how lucky this lady must have been to win so much money over something that seemed frivolous to me. I felt as though she had won the lottery for something she not only could have prevented by using reasonable care, but also for something that happens often without a striking settlement of 2.9 million dollars. Without looking into the details then, I recently found out how misunderstood this story actually is.

Thanks for your comment. I think the short time break policy for employees is an interesting topic because nowadays it is not available and suitable for everyone in any company. Usually, it depends on what position you take in the company. Obviously, as a manager in such a big technological company, Rachel has the opportunity and benefit. However, it is still difficult to measure how long should be an appropriate period of time for a manager to take a break in the work time. How about those bottom level workers? If they have different standards of break time, is it equal? Obviously, a part time salesman in Macdonald is disable to take a nap when he is working. Anyway, how to deal with the core of ethic is a very important and necessary

Culture is one of the terms that have been becoming more familiar in the 21st century among the multinational companies all around the world. The world has been shrunken by the fasting travelling and communicating technologies which has brought down the barriers for the organisations having business in international market. But still then there are few barriers that make the international business critical and hard for everyone to succeed in it. This is due to the factor that the businesses have direct influence over the culture that is followed in the respective country where the business is carried out. So it would be interesting to

In 1954, the initial McDonald’s was created. With the help of Ray Kroc, Dick McDonald, and Mac McDonald, the brand was established. Although this restaurant started in a small town in Illinois, the globalization of this company was rapid (Britannica, 2017). Mcdonaldization is a term that represents the rapid growth and development of this company throughout the entire world. The band McDonald’s can thank bureaucratization for the characteristics that ultimately helped the restaurant

In doing business so many times an organization must think globally. This might be done to increase sales and/or profits or to lower labor costs. In either case problems can occur due to ethical and cultural barriers in global expansion. In this paper I will attempt to show some of what a global organization and a cultural issue that affects their interactions outside the United States by identifying and comparing some of these cultural differences.

Globalization nowadays is a very popular topic. With the rapid development of the economy, services and commercials trade between countries become more and more convent. The world becomes more and more like a global village. At the same time, it begins to have a deep influence on a company’s strategy plan which manager is involved in an international business market. In International Business: The Challenges of Globalization, I interested in PART 5 Chapter 2 Cross-Cultural Business. In my pervious business ethic course I learned a chapter about foreign assignment which an employee works in a foreign country and have a cultural issue. And in that course I did a research paper about foreign culture so I think these chapter is familiar with

McDonald has been a well-known and valuable brand for over half a century. The company’s mission and vision is striving to be the world’s best quick service restaurant and formalizing their beliefs into “People, Vision, and People Promise”. “Quality, Service, Cleanliness and Value” also became the company’s motto. The company’s first McDonald store was built “in 1940 by the original McDonald brothers, Dick and Mac. Later in 1954, Ray Kroc became the first official franchisee appointed by Dick and Mac McDonald in San Bernardino, California” (Chandiramani, Ravi). Soon after, Mr. Kroc opened his first restaurant in Des Plaines, Illinois, and the McDonald’s corporation was created. The new franchise began to grow rapidly as a result of its