Mcdonalds Functions of Management

McDonald’s Organizing Functions of Management

Stephanie Adair

MGT 330

November 17, 2010

Charles Parnell

McDonald’s Organizing Functions of Management

McDonald’s is one of the world’s largest fast food retailer Boeing is the largest aerospace company in the world, with headquarters in Chicago, it employees more than 159,000 people across the United States and in 70 countries. Boeing is actually two businesses tied together, Commercial Airlines and Integrated Defense Systems, through a series of corporate functions such as Human Resources, Business Development and Strategy, and Operations and Technology, (Boeing, 2010). A company that size with that many employees needs to have a strong management plan in place. Management planning is the backbone for any organization and a must have in order to stay afloat competitively. This paper will discuss Boeing’s planning function of management, analyze the influence that legal issues, ethics, and corporate social responsibility have had on it, and discuss the factors that influence the company’s strategic, tactical, operational, and contingency planning such as innovation, profitability, and environmental concerns, (Spindler, 2008). These

According to Bateman and Snell (2009), “Planning is specifying the goals to be achieved and deciding in advance the appropriate actions to achieve those goals” (p. 19). By creating the organization’s strategic plans and implementing a course of action for the employees to follow Boeing is planning the first steps the company needs to take to be successful. The management plan used at Boeing begins with planning methods that produce growth, both for the organization and the employees. “By making employees share in both the successes and failures of the company, Boeing in turn receives: committed, performance-driven management at all levels”, (Spindler, 2008). Boeing’s first plan is to make sure that all employees are aware of and follow a course of action that involves constant...