Submitted by Eddy L.
Almost every American in the United has had a taste of McDonald’s, a place where you can see various kinds of people, race and age eating together. Everywhere you go to eat is exactly the same. The socialization aspect of it is that whether it’s lower or upper class everyone who comes in knows the process of making a order whether it’s picking it up or filling your own drink. McDonald’s is also one of the top multi cultural organizations so no matter what’s your ethnicity you can be apart of their work environment, but is McDonald’s really the best place to work in?
Some of us refuse to believe that the yellow golden arch has a lot of power. Unquestionably McDonald’s is the most influential industry in terms being the largest fast-food restaurant chain in the United States. Not only are they dedicated in service and quality but efficiency as well. McDonald’s always seem to deliver there product trying to give consumers the biggest, fastest, and best product they can get for their money making it an efficient by placing certain people doing certain task, making it specific as possible. Max Weber’s definition of bureaucracy is that it is a large hierarchical organization that is ruled by formal rules and regulations and has a straight forward work tasks. Its three main characteristics are that it has a division of labor, hierarchy of authority, and an impartial and impersonal application of rules and policies. Therefore, the definition of bureaucracy has a relation to McDonalds organization supported by the fact that every restaurant has a hierarchy of authority, each restaurant enforces an impartial and impersonal application of rules and policies, everyone plays a role in this organization from taking orders, making burgers or just making fries to provide faster service. This change in society is well known as McDonaldization.
Besides Mcdonaldization, McDonalds has become one of the most multi cultural organizations in the United States. Not only does it have different cultures making purchases daily but workers are different nationalities from all over the world. It’s common to see a child or an elder from different places speaking different languages making a purchase to eat inside or take out. “Capitalizing the benefits in diversity while minimizing the potential cost” a saying I once read while reading about diversity in our society has a relation to McDonalds.
Overall McDonalds is very standardized multi cultural organization from advertising to real life. People come in to eat, socialize and go and that’s standard all across the world. Age is obviously not a factor for this business anyone can make a purchase regardless of class or ethnicity. Is it really the best environment to work in? in my opinion it is not supported by the fact that it limits our creativity as a society same reason why Marx is saying that working for an organization alienates us from being ourselves, we can not put our own ingredients in burgers when working for McDonalds or any other food chain so it limits our creativity as a society.
McDonald’s Culture Diversity example:
WOW!!! is all I can say. Your made awonderful point about not only does McDonalds capture the cutsomers but also its employess. Also how not only is it a multi billion coorperation, but its multi cultural. And to top it all off, the vidoe was an excellent cnclusion and gave exxtra insit to the points you were making. How everyday soo many people make their way to McDonalds no matter who they are or where they come from.
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Mecca Abdullah
ReplyDeleteThis blog was very imformative and kept my interest. I understand now that a uniform and a menu means so much more than what you initially see. I see the advantage of unity but the destruction of individualuty. I agree that McDonaldization can be detrimental to a person. Great job!!