A Look At Disney At The Disney Company

My family and I been going to Disney every year since 1995, and little tidbits we all know comes from reading everything we can find on the Disney experience.

Throughout the last three to four decades, since Walt Disney World opened its theme park in 1971, the park has undergone an incredible transformation. When the park originally opened only three rides were available and now after adding new rides, attractions, and other developments, there is over forty seven square miles of space. Not only are there the actual theme parks themselves, but Disney also branched out into resorts, hotels, golf courses, campgrounds, water parks, restaurants, entertaining events, and theme shows. The Disney Company has grown to over 60,000 employees who busily keep Walt Disney World operating and running smoothly,

Disney offers a wide variety of training for their employees at the Disney Institute, which was developed in 1986, and the benefits employees acquire supplement the organizational culture of the company. There is great thought that goes into the creation of training that benefit’s the massive number of employees throughout the Disney Company. The intense focus that Disney puts into each employee is easily paid back by great customer satisfaction that Disney maintains throughout the year. Training offers organizational behavior concepts such as: decision-making, motivation, group behavior, communication, organizational culture, organizational structure, and human resource practices.

The Disney Company strives in employee happiness and satisfaction. That is the Disney way. One way Disney determines if employees are happy is by utilizing a 120-question survey about managements overall performance. Communication is key to a successful busin...

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...white-suited maintenance workers rush to pick up any litter; including droppings left by the horses that pull the shiny trolley cars along Main Street. Each night, all of Main Street is hosed down and scrubbed.

The people and of the Magic Kingdom are equally flawless. As a marching band drums in the distance, characters like Goofy and Snow White stop mingling with the tourists and begin to usher them to the sides of Main Street for a parade. This parade differs from any other you have seen, to include seasons of the year however. Dressed in spotless uniforms, the fit, attractive band members hold their instruments at the perfect angle. The shapely twirlers always catch their batons. All strut in unison, only to reappear like clockwork in an hour. At nighttime parades, spectacular fireworks are so beautiful Walt Disney World is the place that had a deep impact on me.