Mcdonalds Cultural Sensitivity

In Drown, women are simply perceived as objects. The Dominican Republic culture lets gender norms dictate behavior of both men and women, encouraging the practices of machismo. Machismo is defined as a strong sense of masculine pride. Diaz details Yunior’s journey in dealing with masculinity as well as the misogyny women face through the stories “Aurora” and “Edison, New Jersey”. Critics would argue Diaz should be assessed for the sexist portrayal of women in Drown. However, in Drown, Diaz acknowledges the deep misogyny within the Dominican Republic society; thus he cannot be criticized for the portrayal of women because he simply depicts a vivid reality.

Ethos is when an author uses credibility and authority to persuade you in to believe what he is stating. Feine does this by referring to reliable resources such as the book, Golden Arches East by James Watson and by Reason Magazine, Nick Gillespie. He also uses an anti McDonald's website called, McSpotlight. By using these references, he establishes authority in the writing. These references help to advance his credibility in his article. Because of his credibility, the readers know that this author can be acknowledged. Not only does Feine use references, but also statistics and facts, as well. In this article, Feine mentions how 43 percent of the world's fast food market is controlled by McDonalds, thus advancing his credibility even more by stating a statistic.

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.

3) Should Mc Donald’s offer healthy alternatives to the same extent in all the countries in which it operates, or just those where it has been criticized in the past, or is it expecting further regulation? What if customers overseas do not want healthy options?

India has become a global conduit for business as they have liberalized their economic policies over the past 20 years. Companies are flocking to India because of many factors, including, less expensive labor costs, increasing growth rate, and an abundance of a highly skilled workforce. These factors in addition to other advantages have substantially increased the number of United States businesses looking to grow beyond the U. S borders into the county of India. Dunlop Software Consultant’s goal is to also expand its operations internationally and believes that India has the business environment to meet our goal of expansion globally.

“I’m lovin’ it” (mcdonalds.com) is the motto for McDonalds. I can remember watching the commercials on my television and wanting to eat McDonalds. Going to McDonalds was my favorite place to eat as a kid. I loved the salty fries and the prize you would get in a happy meal and I would beg my parents to take me so I could get them. When I was little they had the slide and ball pit, which I absolutely loved to play in. As I got older I started to learn about different cultures and I was always curious how the American businesses impacted other countries. I always knew that McDonalds made a ginormous impact in America. Every kid wants a meal from McDonalds but I would wonder if children in other countries would crave McDonalds meals like Americans

When faced with the task of providing nutritious and healthy food to a large population, the American government seems to neglect both ideas; instead, we are fed diseased, pesticized food concepts. Why concepts? Because the food we eat daily is a mere reminder that general American health means nothing, and large profits are everything. Food is now mass produced, the idea of farms and mills have been completely removed from the process of food making and replaced with machines and large factories. Though we think we have escaped this concept of Mcdonaldization regarding our food, we have not, the food industry continues to practice this basic infrastructure: Control, Efficiency, Calculability, Predictability,

I think that the Authors main idea for this article is to show how McDonald’s can be ignorant to their workers. First, instead of helping them by getting higher wages, they are trying to show them how they can live with the wages they are making. Which is an insult to those who are earning low wages. Second, why would they want to be educated on how to live on almost nothing? When the author suggested that the $13.8 million Owner of McDonalds try to live on the McBudget it truly shows how the author feels about the budget that they were giving to the workers. When all our daily expenses are added up it’s a big sum that doesn’t add up with the budget system they have created.

Somehow other countries outsourcing may be slow for in India because of the uncertainty and lack of credibility that exists within the Indian market (Kalegaonkar A., Nov 4, 2008). This may be an obstacle for Clinigene. Moreover, with

Despite McDonald’s excellent global strategy and localization they do face controversy. From the first time McDonald’s opened its doors in 1972, policymakers and the media was concerned about the impact the fast-food would have on the French culture. This controversy kept the company in the pubic eyes. So, when the World Cup finals was held in France, French citizens protest when McDonald’s became the official food. They believed it is too symbolic to America. McDonald’s is an easy target as everyone around the world know what McDonald’s is. Also, it is known to be an icon of capitalism. The company internationally is symbolized as “all to American”, therefore is a huge target for protest.

George Ritzer describes McDonaldization as “the process by which the principles of the fast-food restaurant are coming to dominate more and more sectors of American society as well as the rest of the world”. McDonaldization is the idea that our society is becoming more efficient and more fast paced. Rational systems can be defined as “unreasonable, dehumanizing systems that deny the humanity, the human reason, of the people who work within them or are served by them”.1 Today there are many types of businesses that are increasingly adapting the same values and principles of the fast-food industry to their needs. Rational systems are dehumanizing our society and seem to be even more irrational than convenient. “Almost every aspect of

That could jeopardize LE position of finding a partner in India, because the company would be exposed to share some of its secrets with them, and as the case states, they wouldn’t mind coping it in the future. Another difficulty the company will face is the two main competitors that are already doing business in India, Ador welding Ltd and ESAD India.

McDonaldization involves a process of rationalization described by George Ritzer that is utilized by sociologists (Ritzer 292). Ritzer elaborates the aspect of McDonaldization of society is manifested in situations, for example, where a society adopts the features of a fast-food joints. Worth a note, fast-foods are growing very popular because they highly fits with most individual contemporary lifestyle.

Today’s society and culture is becoming more and more McDonaldized. This paper will illustrate what the process of McDonaldization is. In addition, this paper will show how today’s society has adapted to this process along with using the theories from Max Weber.

This case was written by P. Indu, under the direction of Vivek Gupta, IBS Center for Management Research. It was compiled