McDonald’s Extra Credit Report McDonald’s retail outlet resemble a machine in the way that it represents a specialization within their products. Specialization meaning that every part of the machine has a certain functions that create a final product, such as there salads all the way to their burgers they each have a certain function that needs to be done before the product is ready to be served to the customer. Another one is that McDonald’s signifies is predictability through their logos and their consistency. In a way, where when someone hears or sees a McDonalds, they visually recollect the golden arches that mean a McDonalds in near them. One last thing, on how McDonalds resemble a machine is that it embodies is standardization which is also known as replicability. Which for starters means that a machine can be easily replaced if it doesn’t work anymore by another machine. In which, McDonalds does by having from the start to be standard and be replaced by the uniforms, have them say personal greetings, consistent tasks, wages offered, breaks given, and the countless rules that they have to follow. Just like machines, when they break down they are replaces so are employees if they don’t want to abide by all the standardized rules that McDonalds has set for all their employees.
The scientific management of Frederick Taylor’s, emphasizes scientifically determined jobs and management practices as the way to improve efficiency and labor productivity. In this method, you break down into four different principles in how McDonalds runs things. First principle, which is replace rule-of-thumb work methods with methods based on a scientific study of the tasks. So at McDonalds they use the scientific method to define their work activities in a way where everything is defined in exact terms. From the store layout, the design and layout of all the equipment, the rack of