Stakeholders can both affect and be affected by the business organization. There are "internal stakeholders" and "external stakeholders". Internal stakeholders consist of employees, managers and owners while external stakeholders consist of government, suppliers, customers, community groups, shareholders and any persons or groups that can affect the business. The major extents that MC Donald considers to meet the objectives of the stakeholders are: (1) Employees With 35,000 outlets all over the world, the number of employees is very large. A well organized employing system always let employees feel satisfied to work with the company. MC Donald's offers career path opportunities, retirement benefits and medical allowances to its employees. However, many of the operational employees, for example, the cashiers, they are employed on "zero-contracts"--- Employee's working hours, usually can be anywhere from full-time to "zero hours". This approach may not be ideal for the general working population as many need to have a steady income for supporting the …show more content…
Therefore, meeting suppliers objectives are very important. For example, good payment gateways, flexible and fair purchasing terms with the suppliers, to form a partnership with logistic companies so that the food suppliers can deliver their food smoothly.
1.3 Explain the responsibilities of an organization and strategies employed to meet them In order to meet the objectives of different stakeholders, MC Donald's take different responsibilities and strategies to meet their expectation. It also builds up a website lists down all the approaches MC Donald's will do to meet different stakeholders. It has a website introduces the strategies it carries out: http://www.aboutmcdonalds.com/mcd/sustainability/people.html (1) Responsibilities to Employees: MC Donald's knows it is very important to treat their employees right and just. Here are some approaches: Treat employees fairly and respect them
Provide employees a safe and suitable working environment. It means to be free from harassment, intimidation or abuse, sexual or threats of physical