The main differences I am going to look at are the management styles

The main differences I am going to look at are the management styles

related to each of the companies.

Introduction

This report is looking at the key differences between the two

companies that I have been independently researching. The main

differences I am going to look at are the management styles related to

each of the companies. It also looks at the different structures

within the company such as the hierarchy of the company and the range

of managers. Ethics is also going to be a key difference between the

following companies as they have very separate ideas of what are

good/bad behaviors for a business. Both companies are worldwide and

well-recognized businesses with thousands of employees and

multimillion-dollar profits.

Company X

In 1975, two teenage friends formed a company. It sold a form of

computer language for a self-assembly kit computer based upon Intel

processors. The friends were Bill Gates and Paul Allen, they named

the company Microsoft. Revenues and profits rose dramatically in the

early years. Windows 95 was what really put Microsoft on the map as

they started to make billions of dollars in profit each year. Now

Microsoft is one of the most profitable companies in the world and

Bill Gates is the wealthiest man in the world! Microsoft is now

installed in nearly all computers around the world; personally I have

never been on a computer that isn’t being run by Windows. That gives

you an idea about how big Microsoft really is. Another big issue that

concerns Microsoft is the fact that on your average high street there

will not be a Microsoft shop. There are not many Microsoft shops in

the whole of the U.K. but it is used in nearly every large companies

and shops in the world. The Microsoft headquarters are found in the

USA but also have separate smaller headquarters around the world.

Company Y

McDonalds is the world leading food services in the world today; it

has 30,000 restaurants in 119 countries and serves 47 million

customers each day of the week. It is also one of the most well

recognized companies such as Microsoft. It all started in 1955 a good

20 years before the likes of Microsoft. McDonalds is a franchised

company meaning a different person owns each restaurant but all have

to pay McDonalds main company at one time or another. They’re about

2,800 employees under the McDonalds name. The headquarters for this

company is just outside Chicago, in Oak Brook. Each country has its

own individual headquarters but all report back to the one in Oak

Brook. Even though these two companies seem the same they are very