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Management Principles And Bureaucracy In Burger King

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Introduction Burger King® firstly was, founded in 1954 in USA, it is the second largest fast food hamburger chain in the world. Everyday more than 11 million guests visit Burger King® around the globe, they are doing it because of high quality, delicious-tasting, and affordable foods of this restaurant (Burger King Corporation, 2017). The purpose of this essay is to cover the uses of management principles and bureaucracy with their effects in burger king organisation. Global Centralisation: is a process in which the concentrate of decision making is in a few hands and top management making the major decision for whole organisation (Robbins and Coulter,2016). All the decision and activities of the lower levels around the world, subjected to …show more content…

Formal Selection: formal selecting is an element of bureaucracy that talks about the technical ability of each employee or worker, application should meet the requirement which is needed by organisation/firm (Robbins and Coulter,2016). for example, in an 85-person job opportunity of burger king organisation in Dubai only 65 persons met the requirement of BK the rest of the participant failed to get job in this organisation (Gulf News, 2015) Impersonality: impersonality is another element of bureaucracy, which establish the policies ahead of personalities that all the members should go through it (Robbins and Coulter,2016). Example: BK is committed to the highest ethics standards in the operations of its global business and activities of its management. This code of ethics supplements the Company’s Code of Business Ethics and Conduct such as honesty and financial conduct, code of ethics law and policies, performance of duties and conflict of interests (Burger King Worldwide Inc., 2012), overall all BK employees should follow the rules without any personality with anyone in …show more content…

Efficiency means use of the lowest input to create the greatest output. In such kind of organisation division of work or division labour, unity of command, centralisation, discipline and impersonality are significate factors can affect to increase the efficiency/productivity of their franchises around the world. We can see effects of proper management of burger king on the annual report of BK that sale revenue of the firm has been had a significant growth in the last three years, respectively from $715 millions to $1.5 billion between 2013 to 2016 (appendix 1), the same thing also happened in the total income of burger king it has a growth record for every year, if go back few years ago burger king had around $1 million average revenue per restaurant it increased to $1.4 Million and increase profitability at same time (Maggie McGrath,

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