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Ray Kroc Movie Summary

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THE FOUNDER
The Founder is a true story about how Ray Kroc, who was a struggling business man trying to sell a milkshake machines, met the McDonald brothers, Mac and Dick, who were managing a burger place in Southern California during the 1950s. Ray Kroc was impressed by the brothers’ assembly line style system of making the food Kroc due to how efficiently it is managed by the brothers and the system having the meal ready in 30 seconds and in this he saw the potential to make the business a franchise, as during the 1950s in a time where Drive-Ins were just introduced and were not time efficient as seen in the scene where Ray Kroc is waiting for his food. The McDonalds brother’s fast food system impresses Kroc. He manages to convince the brothers …show more content…

Management is defined as the planning, organizing, controlling and leading. Leadership is part of management but it is also the art of motivating a group of people to act towards achieving a common goal. In the movie Kroc displays characteristics of a leader as he is able to convince Dick and Mac as well as other people to buy in to his idea of making McDonalds a franchise thus the people are helping him achieve his goal which is what a leader is expected to do. The reason Kroc cannot be described or seen as a complete leader is that his intensions are selfish as he gets greedy and wants a larger stake in the company thus telling his lawyer to make the legal contract between Kroc and the McDonald brothers …show more content…

Conflict can either be functional or dysfunctional. Functional conflict can lead to the development of new ideas as well as help establish a group identity, lead to an increase in efforts and help identify problems by improving communication. Dysfunctional conflict is more aggressive as a solution is often refused, this could lead to reduced commitment, negative organisational culture and increasing hostility.
Throughout the movie there is evidence of conflict between Ray Kroc and the McDonald brothers but there is more dysfunctional conflict. This dysfunctional conflict can be seen when Kroc decides to go ahead and distribute the pre-mix milkshake to the other franchises despite Dick’s protests, this incident increased hostility between Dick and Kroc thus reducing their commitment to work together.
In this instance both Kroc and Dick McDonald used the incorrect tools to manage this conflict as Kroc forced to have his way with the pre-mix milkshakes whilst Dick avoided the situation, both the tools used were detrimental to the partnership between the McDonald brothers and Ray Kroc mainly due to them lacking communication

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