Juan Sebastian Yanguas
Embry Riddle Aeronautical University
McDonald’s National Hiring Day
McDonald’s national hiring day was only one day which they received thousands of application from people in the United States and they were trying to hire 50,000 new people. Crew and management positions were the types of jobs McDonald’s were seeking for. There are 14,000 McDonald’s in the Unites States and the company stated that one of the reasons to hire so many people in one day was to increase the workforce so more of its restaurants could stay open 24 hours a day. (Censky, 2011) Another goal for McDonald’s innovative idea was to promote the image of a job in McDonald’s (Mc Job) as something positive and not as a “bad” job like most people think when it comes to working at McDonald’s. The company stated that around 75 percent of McDonald’s managers and about half of its franchisees began their careers as store workers. McDonald’s would also like to increase the U.S. workforce to 700,000 from its current level of 650,000. (Need a Job? McDonald 's to Hire 50,000, 2011)
McDonald’s national hiring day is a good example of an innovative management idea because it’s going to require staffing, organizational structure, employee training and development, development leadership skills, and motivating employees. Staffing is going to require job analysis, recruitment, and selection. Organizing work is going to require division of labor, empowerment, and delegation. Employee training and development is going to require orientation, training and management development. Developing leadership skills is going to teach employees about leadership and management, leader attitudes, and basic leadership styles. Motivating employees is going to talk about achievement-power-affiliation, motivation-maintenance, and job satisfaction.
McDonald’s decided to use the staffing method to increase their business. McDonald’s used a process called job analysis
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