Maysar Cross Culture

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TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE No

T i t le page……………………………………………………………1

Student dec larat ion……………………………………………….3

Acknowledgement…………………………………………….…. .5

In t roduct ion…………………..………………………………….…6

Main ass ignment

Task 1……………………………………………………………….8-10

Compar ing o f our own cu l tu re to that o f the Lat in

Task 2……………………………………………………………….11-13

The two st ra teg ic models re la ted to cu l tu ra l assumpt ions and

approaches in adapt ing to the externa l env i ronment

Task 3……………………………………………………………….14-16

The th ree l eve l s o f cu l tu re and th ree methods o f d i scovered tha t

c o ul d b e re co mme n de d f o r t h e MF ’s i n te rn at i on a l ma na g er a n d

chef

Task 4…………………………………………………………….17-22

The key funct iona l a reas o f the human resource management

Task 5……………………………………………………………….23-24 The key process s t ra teg ies fo r manag ing mul t i cu l tu ra l d i f fe rences

wi th in MF’s team

Task 6

Overa l l report o f a l l the tasks

References………………………………………………………….25

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I wou ld l i ke to thank God The A lmighty fo r g iv ing me a hea l thy

l i fe , my fami ly and re la t ives fo r the i r support and he lp they h ave

g iven me, my fe l low students espec ia l l y my s i s ter A i sha fo r

he lp ing me in d i scuss ion , my teacher Mr . E l i ya and last but not

least NCC for g iv ing great chance to obta in the i r educat ion .

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Introduction

This assignment is based on organizational scenario for an established

Mediterranean restaurant chain. There are various components to the scenario, and

the tasks described below address these components. Your role and background is

that of a generalist consultant who has been called in to provide observations and

suggestions to the current situation. You will be providing advice to an internationalmanager and chef who want to expand their operation overseas. Therefore, this

assignment requires knowledge of:

• cross-culture awareness as discipline

• Organizational development as a process

The scenario

Med Foods (MF) is an international restaurant chain that was founded using the

Italian, French and Spanish cuisines as a basis for establishing the characteristics

flavours that distinguish those countries and the MF brand. MF has chosen to

restrict its global expansion in order to control both quality and quantity of outlets.MF was created by three chefs, each having extensive experience in either the

Italian, French or Spanish cuisine and lifestyle. Their creation of MF was as much a

reflection about the attitude of the Mediterranean region as it is about the food.

These three chefs, along with their business and international manager, formed MF

in 2003 form their base in Sorrento, Italy. Since the beginning, their brand has been

associated with a high quality dining experience in a variety of countries. MF

currently has a presence in five European countries, two Asian countries, the USA

and Canada.

MF has spent the last year consolidating its growth and is now ready to expand the

brand again. The approach for expansion is for one of the three founding chefs

along with the international manager to go to the new location for a period of six

months until the new restaurant is established as a stable business. Once there,

they will recruit management and staff, look after any health and legal issues that

need attention in the new location, and open the restaurant. These two MF

representatives prefer to work as a team with the new locations manager and head

chef for six months. This approach helps the new restaurant team understand the

local culture of their new location and the national culture of that location.

The key objective of MF is to deliver high quality food design, preparation and

service resulting in a memorable dining experience. In order for these objectives tobe achieved, it is necessary for MF’s international manager and chef to work closely

with the staff in the new location.

For its next expansion location, MF has chosen your country. The first task is to

recruit a manger and head chef who will have the knowledge of the local culture

and HRM practices within your country. The MF manager and chef will need to

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insure that the new restaurant manager and chef incorporate the Mediterranean

Culture into the new restaurant, and that these four work as an effective team. Such

skills as HRM, marketing, ensuring competitive advantage, food preparation and

service along with knowledge of working across cultures will be key to the success

of this new restaurant in your country.

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Task 1

Culture is the totality of people’s way of life as they struggle to live and continuing

living and developing.

There are four types of culture profiles. These are:

Well oil machine (Germanic)

German’s company tends to be flatter and have narrow span of having power over

the people, and the center level managers have a lesser amount of discretion, they

share specific technical competence with their experts.

there is a strong role of staff that provides scientific knowledge and expectation

that total management has in control, there is also specific competence, but also in-

depth company knowledge.

They have specialized technical competence, where by competent people perform

specialized tasks.

They are organized by function, the activities are grouped on the basis of the

essential functions that must be performed to attain the company’s goals.

there is coordination through the routines, industry, company knowledge. And also

efficiency which is very important.

(Susan Schneider & Jean Louis Barsoux, 1997)

Village market (Anglo/Nordic)

It reflects a larger concern for flexibility. The Anglo/Nordic are planned by division,

there is greater decentralization, and there is also more delegation involved.

the responsibility of central workers is far less significant. The co-ordination function

is positioned on individual managers deserve a stable need for influence and

compromise to attain competition.

Changes in personal is time and again used as chance to reorganize the work and

responsibility in order to put up accessible gift and form opportunities for personal

development.

Top management role is to spot management opportunities and support others to

practice them, underlining the significance of taking a further strategic view and to

be able to communicate it persuasively.


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If quality in culture is implemented properly, it can be a way for an organization to

create a sustainable competitive advantage.

Med foods will have more advantage in the market because they will be introducing

new cuisines that has all tastes of French, Italian and Spanish cuisines, it will be a

good combination with foods from our culture which will attract more people to theirrestaurant.

getting to know our culture will be a good advantage to them because they will

know how the people in our country like their food to be, how to welcome them and

make them feel comfortable, and most of all to provide them with the best taste of

multi cuisines.

they can also use the knowledge of our culture in their other restaurants in the

other countries, this will give them a competitive advantage because they will be

introducing something new and different in the other countries, this act will attract

more customers.

People like to try something new every now and then, so when they introduce the

new restaurant here with our culture and food involved, so many people will be

attracted by this and they will be motivated to taste something new.

The above are some of the competitive advantage med foods (MF) will gain when

introducing their restaurant here with using our culture in it.

(Susan Schneider & Jean Louis Barsoux, 1997; David Boddy, 2005)

My culture which is Latin compared to the Germans.

Since my country culture is same as Latin we can see how it is different compared

to the Germans. Our culture is centralized when it arrives to decision making,

verdict is made to the top and coordination is at the top where by the Germans

have decentralized decision making and there is narrow span of control.

There is also informal relationship involved people are free to talk and communicate

with each other while the Germans have top management team among them and

they are organized by function while also their discretion is limited by expertise

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Task 2.

THE TWO SPECIFIC MODELS OF STRATEGY RELATED TO CULTURE AND

THEIR ASSOCIATED CHARACTERISTICS.

These models are: adapting model and controlling model.

Adapting model

This model is more decentralized and comfortable. Decisions are not prepared only

by the top managers; they are discussed and can be made by the subordinates

involved in the company.

The responsibility for strategies is diffused through out the institute. Everyone

becomes responsible to achieve the strategies set by the organization.

The planned decisions are anticipated to be accomplished throughout agreement

(within the society constructed), it is done through a general agreement which is

based on collective or group opinion from the people inside the organization.

Scan is broader foundation and less systematic meaning it’s based on a regular plan

or fixed method that is used.

The information is composed from individual source, friends and the observationsthey construct tends to be more qualitative and subjective.

Information is interpreted all the way through home ground or intuitive models,

there is also intense discussion which is encouraged by involving all the people of

all level in the organization.


Controlling model

This model is being characterized as centralized and formalized; most plans are put

in an agreement and clearly stated in a written form.

The top managers usually are identified in professional consultants to assist and

help in devising strategies, these consultants are specialized and good at what they

do.

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The formal strategies planning units may possibly be well-known to create plans to

be proposed to top management for decision making.

The existence of official scanning units may be there where by their main task is to

examine closely the activities practiced in the organization.

The formal scanning units are accountable for the environmental events. The

scanning is focused in in-depth in order to acquire the essential important

information.


The differences between the two models

Controlling model Adapting model

● Environment can easily be known and

is intelligible and predictable this helps

the organization.

● Environment is not easily known or be

controlled. Due to this the organization

has to be flexible and be ready to act in

response to unforeseeable

environmental proceedings.

● the exact information can be achieved

through dynamic and focused scanning

and is analyzed to decrease

environmental uncertainty.

● Personal relations and

communications are well thought-out as

important to developing collective

understanding, these information

resources are more delicate and

personal.

● The truth in the organization is

determined by facts and figures are

known through the use of algebraic

models.

● the facts are determined and reality of

the information are mostly expected to

be known through a ’sixth sense’ feeling

or intuition that one feels.

●decisions are made by those who hold

the most power and knowledge in the

organization, known as the top directors

who are supposed to make the most

excellent judgment in line with individual

interest.

● Decisions can be made by the

subordinates who work under the top

managers; their decisions are trusted

and are given opportunities.

● Strategic visions are being expressed

as concrete targets, statements, rules

and tangible which are clear and certain.

● Strategic vision is most of the times

not seen clearly and can not be

described clearly and it usually

philosophical.

● The strategic decisions are perceived

as the same as distinct events and

● Strategic decisions are done in time

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actions and steps are taken and

designed within a specified timetable.

but necessarily in a given timetable.

● Strategy completion is highly task and

attainment oriented, the actions are

planned clearly and the outcomes are

calculated.

● Strategy implementation is well

thought-out to center on the expansion

of internal capabilities knowledge

competencies and learning, so that it

can be able to improve and adapt

continuously.

(Susan Schneider & Jean Louis Barsoux, 1997; David Boddy, 2005)

The similarities between the models are;

They both consider the environment and how it affects them and how to control it.

They both carry distinctiveness and something unique to stand out for.

They both aim for strategies and want to achieve the best.

They both consider things before they make decisions.

THE MOST APPROPRIATE MODEL FOR MED FOODS

The most appropriate model for med foods is adaptation model because of thefollowing reasons:

There is good communication and relationship among the managers and their

workers which will be good for the restaurants, since the managers need to get

along with chefs.

Since decisions can be made by the subordinates it becomes easier if the chefs will

like to try and cook something new, they can decide even without the top managers

being there.

Since it is decentralized, there is more freedom which is important for med foods,the chefs and managers need to be comfortable with each other.

The members share an emotion of self-assurance that the organization can deal

with whatsoever intimidation and chance that will come to the organization.

The head of adaptive model are kept at varying the correct things not altering for

the sake of change and not concession of core values or business principles.

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(Arthur Thompson Jr & Aj, Strickland, 2001; David Boddy, 2005)

Task 3.

Every different of culture of its people has its own distinctiveness. As culture is the

system of shared meanings and understandings, the distinction that it carries is

significant as the similar behavior can have unusual meanings and distinct

behaviours can have a similar meaning.

The levels of culture are found within the artifacts and behavior, with these two

culture assumption will lead to being observed and its understanding to be found.

THE THREE LEVELS OF CULTURE ARE:

● articrafts and behaviours.

Artifacts

Artifacts are on the surface, those aspects (such as dress codes) which can be

easily discerned, but are hard to recognize because one can never be sure of how

they predict things and if their conclusions are right. Some of the things that are

under artifacts are:

Architecture and Design

This is all about the structure and the design of the building which is the working

place, it brings about the art and science of building which includes its planning,

making and ornamentation. Its style brings about attractiveness and how the

people are located within the building.

For Med Foods the restaurant has to have the architecture and design which will fit

the culture of Tanzania, my country. The design has to be open and free to let the

people interact and see each other, it should not be a design that divides the people

by walls as to just to give them partition. Leaving a close open interactive space for

the people will be very good for the restaurant.

Greetings Rituals

This is all about the greetings and forms of addressing people, the amount of body

contact and physical space that happens between the people when they are

greeting each other. In the rituals it should be known that there is an amount of

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confusion that generates when greeting, how much body contact is needed, should

they shake hands or waving is enough? Greetings and rituals are very important.

Med foods has to know how greetings work in Tanzania, there is always respect for

elder people, and that greetings depends on the individuality and the personality of

the person, they should know how the greetings will lead to the success of therestaurant as in how they can welcome them and make them feel comfortable in

the restaurant and enjoy their meal.

Assumptions

Edgar Schein 92, states ‘‘these basic assumptions form around deeper dimensions

of human existence such as the nature of humans, human relationships and

activity, reality and truth.’’

Assumptions help in understanding culture and how to revolve around it through

learning and seeking further about humans gestures and relationships that reflects

the truth.

Assumptions will help Med Foods know more about their customers, what really lies

behind their smiles and appearances even though it can be heard.

Beliefs and Values

Beliefs are statements that generate feelings that something is true and that it

really exists. And values are about how the things should be and how ideal it is, it

effects on the exact meaning of the quality in something which will make it usefuland helpful. Beliefs and values are important because they create real facts

surrounding the different cultures.

Med Foods should know that beliefs and values will bring about success for the

restaurant and the managers and workers, it will represent all the culture solutions

to problems that occur from external adaptation and internal integration.

The above are the three levels of cultures that should be looked upon by med foods

when understanding the culture of our country.


THE THREE METHODS OF EXPLORING CULTURE ARE:

observation, interviews and surveys, and inference and interpretation.

Observation

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Observation is the ability to notice things that are seen by just viewing and listening

to the situations. Observation can be done to learn and understand about culture of

different people. It also includes recording human behavior with monitoring

instruments. This observation will be useful for Med Foods.

Med Foods should do observation on the first six months in their restaurant; theyshould observe their customers, see what they prefer the most to it and how

comfortable they appear. Observation will help them get accurate information on

their customers which will bring about success to med foods.

Interviews and surveys

Interviews are asking people questions about certain things it may be to know

about important information, to get a job or apply for a position, so interview can be

done to learn about people’s culture. Interview can be done personally or through

telephone, mail and any possible access way.

Survey is the system of going somewhere a field or place to look for information.

Survey depends on different people and different circumstances.

Interviews and survey is important to Med Foods because it will help them know

what they should do to impress their customers, since they will be asking them

questions and finding more about them which will make them know what they

should add to the restaurant, what more quality is needed like if they need to add

more taste to the new cuisines etc. This will bring success to them.

Interpretative approach

This involves interpreting and defining culture from gestures, manner and rituals.

Through this approach it becomes easy to understand someone’s way of life from

things which are similar to gestures on how people react on unusual issues will

illustrate the culture of that person.

Interpretive approach will be important, it will make med foods understand how to

go about cultures people.


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Task 4

Human resource planning is about containing the exact number and kinds of people

at the right places and at the right time. These people ought to be able of working

effectively and efficiently to finish the work and they are required to achieve the

overall objective of the organization.

THE KEY FUNCTIONS FOR MANAGING PEOPLE AND HUMAN RESOURCE

MANAGEMENT ARE:

Recruitment

Is the process of attracting applicants who will be the new employees of the

organization?

The human resource planner decides on the necessity to hire extra workers, and

then they will have to find out prospective candidate. This is when recruitment is

required.

selection

is selecting new candidate, these applicants must be monitored in order to spot out

the job candidates who are likely to be successful if appointed. This is when the

selection process takes place.

socialization

The acquirement function is fulfilled when the recruits who are selected have been

positioned in the business and have learned the customs of the organization and

their working environment.

The organization’s culture expresses how stuffs are done in the organization and

what matters. When the employees have finally adapted to the organization’s

culture, the will be more familiar and would be successful in achieving the

organizations goals.

Training and Development

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David Boddy, 2005“ Term training refers to the acquisition of knowledge, skills, and

competencies as a result of the teaching of vocational or practical skills and

knowledge that relate to specific useful competencies”

The organization should know that proficient employees will not eternally stay in the

company.

Some of the employees are simply experienced upon entering the business but

theyneed additional training and education.

Other employees go into the business proficient of performing an optimum level but

end up facing obsolescence in their skills over time.

As it is known the organization’s needs change over time and period and so the

management must ensure that there is appropriate match of the abilities of the

individuals with the organizational needs for many years into the future. Hence the

training and development function of human resource managements take cares of

all this.

Career Development

As it is workers have different requests and aspiration. The managers have to be

guaranteed that they have competent and motivated people in the business to fulfill

the organization’s future needs and they should always be increasingly concerned

with matching the career needs of workers with the necessities of the organization.

When the human resources have been developed effectively, then they can look

forward to to have experienced employees with up-to-date skills and knowledge.

Performance Appraisal

The process and its result will affect the employee’s inspiration.

Most of the employees expect their work to be impartially evaluated, and if they

feel that their hard work are going to be judged unfairly then their motivation will

diminish.


THE TWO CHEFS AND TWO MANAGERS SHOULD FOCUS ON IMPORTANTTHINGS DURING THE FIRST SIX MONTHS OF OPERATION.

The two chefs and two mangers of Med foods should focus on recruitment,

selection, training and socialization during the first six months of the restaurant.

These things are important because they will help them start well the restaurant

business.

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RECRUITMENT

Contain the examination of the vacancy, the concern of the sources of right

nominee, making contacts with those applicants and attracts submission from

them. Recruitment will help med foods in getting the right employees to work in the

restaurant.

Examining the vacancy

If the post is added to the current workforce then it has happened for the reason

that of various new or improved actions, after that the need for the new worker at

the restaurant have been reputable.

The best part of the vacancies arises as substitute for people who have left the

company or as the last occasion in a sequence of relocations and promotions

following reorganization. But for Med foods the vacancies is for getting the right

people to work for the restaurant to bring about success.

Sources that will help recruitment take place are:

The sources that will make recruitment take place can be from internal and external

sources but for med foods they will have to use external sources.

External sources- many positions are filled from external sources, as it usually is

the ending result is usually a post somewhere else in the company.

External sources can be lengthy, costly and indecisive.

External sources are separated in two classes those which are expensive but

recommend narrow choices, these are:

Suggestion by current workers, Spontaneous, Straight links with institution of higher

education, institution and schools, Trade unions and Qualified bodies’ appointment

services.

And there are those which are costly but give the owner access to a large range of

applicants, these are;

Private agencies and Advertising

The above are the information on recruitment which will be important for Medfoods.

(Suresh Kumar, 2008, David Boddy, 2005)

SELECTION

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Selection is selecting the right candidate for the job being offered. The applicants

must fill the application form.

Selection method

The manager then has to contrast the application form with the personal

specification, looking for attributes which will show who is the applicant suitable for

the job and it will let them know of the short comings which may rule out the

candidate from consideration. From this assessment, the managers can create a list

of candidates for interview and a list of individuals to be rejected.

The manager will then decide on what type of interview that candidate has to be

given, this may be individual, consecutive, or panel and also decide on the test that

shall be used.

After the appropriate applicant has appeared from the selection process then the

following will be presented to the candidate.

- The offer of the job.

- The references of previous jobs.

- Medical examination which will have to be carried on the candidate.

- Introducing the candidate to the company and colleagues and the working

process.

- The follow up will be taken on the progress on the employee.

The above is the information on selection that would very important to the chefsand managers of med foods.

TRAINING

Training is the education given to people so that they can get more experience on

the work their performing or they are going to perform.

Training is a significant function of the utilization and inspiration. By improving theemployee’s ability to carry out the tasks needed by the business, training permit

improved use to be made of the human resources. Training will be very important

for the managers and chefs of Med foods because they will need to train their new

employee’s so that they can adapt with the work in the restaurants, how to do their

jobs effectively and how to serve their customers the best there is to offer.

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There are many benefits which can be gained by med foods if they give training to

the employee’s of the restaurant. Some of them are;

They will get better productivity and quality and there will be less scrap and spoiled

work.

There will be greater adaptability and compliance to new methods.

There will be less need for close supervision on the employees and there will be

fewer accidents in the organization.

Greater job contentment will be viewing itself in lower labour turnover and less

absence.


There are so many reasons which will lead to reasons for conductingtraining.

Sometimes training is done as a routine like when all new employees in certain jobs

automatically go through a training course. More often training is given as a

response to some event. Some of the events can be like;

A change in functioning methods and the installation of new techniques or

equipments which need new or enhanced skills, such events will need training.

A change in product, which may demand guidance not only in production system

but also in the promotion functions of the organization.

A desire to improve quality and to reduce the amount of scrap.

The above are the reasons which may lead for training to take place.

Principles of training

People must be concerned in learning and they have to be willing to learn before

they will accept the training.

Training must be geared to the individual needs of those being trained and be seen

to be so.

Training must be done either by a administrator or manager, or by an agency acting

within a pattern fully understood and approved by the supervisor or manager, and

which the manager will afterward maintain and reinforce.

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People can learn by being told or shown how to do work, but learn best of all from

the personal involvement of doing work to accepted standards under skilled

coaching.

The rate of training should equal the rate at which an individual can learn, and this

should be confirmed by testing.

The above are some of the principles of training which will help Med foods bring

about a successful restaurant.

SOCIALIZATION

Socialization is about making employees learn the culture of the organization and

how to interact with the managers and the people they are working with. So Med

foods should make sure that socialization is very effective in their restaurants.

Socialization will improve the quality of work in the restaurants.

The employees will be more free in their working environment since they will be

socializing with each other and learning to be comfortable.

The above are important things that the two chefs and managers should focus on

the most during the restaurant’s first six months of the operation.


THE THREE KEY CONSIDERATIONS THAT THE NEW RESTAURANT MANAGER

WOULD NEED TO CONSIDER IN DESIGNING TRAINING FOR NEW

RESTAURANT EMPLOYEES ARE:

Feasibility- it is the ability of an operation to produce a process, product or service.

Feasibility has to be considered because it will help the restaurant to know if they

are capable of doing it and being successful.

Feasibility will help them to know if they have the capacity and the quantity of

resources to run the restaurant.

Feasibility will let them know if they have enough financial resources to cope with

their options.

Acceptability- is the attractiveness to the operation of a process product or

service.

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The acceptability will help them decide if they realy want to do it and make it

happen

It will help them understand and know if their customers would want it and

appreciate.

It will also help them know if their option is going to give them a satisfactory

financial return.

Vulnerability- is the risk taken by the operation in adopting a process, product or

service.

Vulnerability asks them if they really want to take the risk.

It will help them to be pessimistic, to know what would go wrong if they would adopt

the option of training and what would be the consequences of everything going

wrong, these should be considered closely.

The above are the key things that have to to be measured when starting the

restaurant in the first six months.

(Nigel Slack, Stuart Chambers, Robert Johnston, 2007)

Task 5.

A culture difference is the difference in outlook of the purpose of a team and how it

is supposed to operate. The expectations related to tasks and process in the

organization which then the differences will be drawn out and be discussed.

THE KEY PROCESS STRATEGIES FOR MANAGING MULTICULTURAL

DIFFERENCES ARE:

Team building

Team building is about building up a relationship among a group of people who are

working together. It is important for Med Foods to have team building in their

organization, because this will make the team come close and interact effectively

and be free because they will hold on to the sense of having a team and knowing

they share a sense of belonging.

From team building they will know what their goals are how to achieve them and it

will let them know why they are there in the first place.

Choose how to communicate.

After they finally have a team, they will decide on how to communicate, whether it

is going to be formal or informal. Choosing the right communication will make the

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Formal communication is when people have to work with schedules and write

everything down, and everything is decided by the subordinates. While Informal is

when they are free to communicate and discuss matters freely, without having

formality as in things are not must to be written down. Good Communication is

everything when working with a team.

Elicit participation.

This is a kind of participation that involves everybody to come out and express what

they think should be done and what is more important, the elicit participation

makes the members in the team to feel important because their ideas count and

considered and having everybody participate gives more room for new ideas and

suggestions. This will make them enjoy their work.

Resolve conflict.

The team should know how to resolve conflicts and be ready for any problems that

might occur in the process of bringing about success to the restaurant. Learning

how to resolve conflicts will make them move forward and progress effectively.

Evaluate performance.

Performance should be checked and monitored so as the managers and chefs to

know what part of the team needs guiding or more motivation to work effectively.

Evaluating performance is a good way to move forward, because the members of the team would know how to work well and guard their performance with great

interest.


Considerations and strategies for managing ethical dilemmas within the

team if they arrive:

Ethical dilemmas are problems which happen around the ethics of the workingenvironment which come from ethical behavior and cultural assumptions such as

rights, justice etc. things like corruptions, civil disobediences are the dilemmas

which attack the conduct of ethics.

The members of the team in the restaurant should know about the ethics and how

important it is to make them work effectively.

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They should respect the ethics of the culture on the restaurant they are working for

and should be available to come across ethical dilemmas like if corruption occurs

within the team, how they will deal with it and control it.

The team can work together to stop the problems, even if they will not solve the

problems of the world at least they should solve the problems that surround them intheir working activities.

The above are the things that could be done to manage the ethical dilemmas that

may occur when running the restaurant of Med Foods.


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