Mcdonalds
Fast Food Companies, such as McDonald’s, are becoming more unethical with their business practices. It is logical for businesses to make profit there should be some accountability as to the morality of such practices. Our research question states is McDonalds holding up to business ethics?
Business ethics focuses on what constitutes right or wrong behavior in the business world and how moral and ethical principles are applied by business persons to situations that arise in their daily activities in the workplace (Ethics, 2006).
Ethics in the Fast Food industry has been identified as one of the most important factors in a fast food business such as McDonalds. In this paper we researched whether Fast Food companies like McDonalds behave ethical or not. The McDonald’s Corporation has been growing and spreading internationally for the past few decades. Although McDonald’s seems convenient, cheap and clean, there are many negative aspects of the business. In spite of paying their employees low wages and negatively impacting other cultures, McDonald’s and chains like it, have managed to position themselves as a positive image.
Two brothers, Richard and Maurice McDonald founded McDonald's in 1937. “The brothers developed food processing and assembly line techniques at a tiny drive-in restaurant east of Pasadena, California” (Vignali, 2001). The corporation pays minimum wage to their workers, who essentially do assembly line, factory-type work. The theory that fit McDonald’s assembly line technique is the “Machine Metaphor”. This states that if a worker on an assembly line quits, a machine-like organization can easily replace that worker” ( Miller, p.185). Looking at organizations such as McDonalds, the machine metaphor points out the ways in which organizations are specialized, standardized, and predictable. They offer the same product everywhere all the time at minimum cost and maximum quality, this is machine like. Machines can only be repaired or replaced,
Business ethics focuses on what constitutes right or wrong behavior in the business world and how moral and ethical principles are applied by business persons to situations that arise in their daily activities in the workplace (Ethics, 2006).
Ethics in the Fast Food industry has been identified as one of the most important factors in a fast food business such as McDonalds. In this paper we researched whether Fast Food companies like McDonalds behave ethical or not. The McDonald’s Corporation has been growing and spreading internationally for the past few decades. Although McDonald’s seems convenient, cheap and clean, there are many negative aspects of the business. In spite of paying their employees low wages and negatively impacting other cultures, McDonald’s and chains like it, have managed to position themselves as a positive image.
Two brothers, Richard and Maurice McDonald founded McDonald's in 1937. “The brothers developed food processing and assembly line techniques at a tiny drive-in restaurant east of Pasadena, California” (Vignali, 2001). The corporation pays minimum wage to their workers, who essentially do assembly line, factory-type work. The theory that fit McDonald’s assembly line technique is the “Machine Metaphor”. This states that if a worker on an assembly line quits, a machine-like organization can easily replace that worker” ( Miller, p.185). Looking at organizations such as McDonalds, the machine metaphor points out the ways in which organizations are specialized, standardized, and predictable. They offer the same product everywhere all the time at minimum cost and maximum quality, this is machine like. Machines can only be repaired or replaced,