They work as a team trying to develop unique ideas to the company. As an employee describe the working scenario as the following, "We are devoted to investing in, supporting and engaging our partners in the constant reinvention of Starbucks." .
Starbucks working staff state their principal mission statement to be the idea of working in a pleasant environment, where everyone should be treated fairly and with respect. Definitely, this is the only way to seek success, by working as a team and helping each other doing their work.
The working staff is guided by several principles for them to be able to make up their own decisions. One briefly explains below what each of the principles are all about: .
1) Everyone should be equally treated in a very respectful manner and they must try to achieve a very pleasant working environment.
2) Working staff should be open to people from different backgrounds, they should not be prejudicial nor discriminative.
3) One should put the greatest effort at the moment of work.
4) Learn to treat customers in an effective manner, for them to be fully satisfied of its purchase and come back again.
5) Help others within your company and the people that surround you.
6) Consider earning money as the key to success of a business.
The Starbucks company has become a worldwide company. It currently employs people from each continent of the world, many of these Starbucks foreign employees are in charge of evaluating the possibilities of opening new Starbucks stores in their hometown, as it is the current case for Latin America. Starbucks has around nine hundred coffee places in twenty-two markets outside North America. It is definitely a melting pot, that is, in this case, the gathering of people from different cultures and location backgrounds into a specific working environment. .
The idea of doing international business brought positive outcomes to the company. Starbucks opened its first foreign coffee place at Tokyo, in 1996.
