Internship Essay At Root Restaurant In New Zealand.

Shows ongoing development of skills – research and professional?
Identifies rationale of the research question based on current literature and research?
Prioritises and delivers effective abilities as an intern and exhibits individualism within an appropriate time frame?
Understands and comprehends the scope of business and adheres to guidelines?
Effectively discusses opportunities for research with the managers?
Demonstrates understanding of business research approaches Participates in activities of the business organisation within reasonable limits?
Understands line of communication in a business situation?
Assists the organisation in an area of research?
Reflects on own values and practice and being sensitive to the requirements of the internship provider?
Begins an exploration of the business context?
Identifies and reports situations that affect business positively or negatively?
Discuss ethical issues in business practice?
Develops insights and skills in managing own emotional response and utilises creative approaches.

This was found out that one was able to gather a lot of knowledge regarding the principle of Treaty of Waitangi and its application during the internship at Root Restaurants in New Zealand. Most of the aspects of the Treaty are used in the business practices as observed by the interns for continuing the business in a more ethical and smooth manner. According to this principle, the partnership, participation and protection attributes should be present between the parties for reflecting the good faith and the reasonability actions. Therefore this can be said that the intern should implement this principle for ensuring the mutual benefit of the intern as well as the organization. This theoretical principle would help to protect people’s right to get involved in the business.

One of the major keys towards business success is the communication skills that can only be improved by the internship as the interns would be trained on how to maintain effective communication with the clients. This is found out by the critical analysis that in most of the cases the formal conversation continues from top to bottom and from bottom to top. The communication mostly takes place in such an order that the directors convey the message to the senior manager and then the manager conveys it to other mediators and then to other employees. The informal communication allows direct conversations between the managers and the employees.

Root restaurant has conducted an internship in a very efficient manner as the interns were treated how to remain loyal for the job position in such a restaurant. The interns are also treated to focus on the industry values for maximizing the organizational values and the reputation in the market. The Root restaurant also reflects the sensitive approach towards the internship requirements and this was also found out that the Root restaurant’s manager also put good faith for the interns and supported them throughout their work. This restaurant also includes the major objectives of the business for providing the greatest food to the customers during my internship period.

This has happened during my internship that the company were developing their business as per the current trends of the business. In my internship, this developed my improvement skills in the communication areas, leadership strategies and others responding to the market changes and the market trends in the restaurant industry.

 The internship experience is required as it usually helped any employees of the restaurant to deal with the hard situations. The interns are able to deal with such situations by reflecting the maturity level. This is also found out that Root restaurant was lacking behind based on the adoption of the present business trends of sales and the business performances. This could be noted that Root restaurant are required to adopt the present trends of the business market as the customers usually complain about the taste of the restaurant’s food. Thus this is recommended for the Root restaurant to utilize the feedbacks of the customers for providing efficient services to the customers and resolving such issues in the restaurant.

Communication Skills

I had a great experience as the internship experiences, and the researches that I have gone through has helped me to enhance my learnings as well as developing skills like communication and leadership skills. The research in the restaurants has helped me to find out and develop my understanding skills of the research methodology, applications of research methodologies and others. This internship period changed my knowledge regarding the market values, how to handle the critical situations in the business by various tactics. The effects of the present business trends have helped me to find out the effect of the present business trends in the business. The overall experiences generally improve the skills that helped me to play the role of the assistant manager in the restaurant business.

This can be stated by relying on the questions that have been raised in the research questionnaire that the questionnaire plays the greatest role in the business process. This is so because it has helped the business to develop the knowledge regarding the business process and the present trends of business followed by the Root restaurant. The questions have also helped to accumulate the views and the opinions of the customers to the restaurants and their product and services.

I was able to develop an important scope and opportunity for developing my job role in the restaurant sector by attaining the internship program. This was so because by getting the elaborate explanations regarding the restaurant’s operation, its management, culture and the market trends. The internship program helped to provide every informations that an individual could run and manage the business in an effective manner. I have followed every possible guideline and the instructions during my internship period. the business manager and the boss has helped me a lot in my research field, by supporting to determine the customer’s views and opinions towards the products and services based on the operation of Root restaurant. With the help of his guidance, I was able to develop the research questions based on customer views and also helped me to accumulate some funds for completing the research study. This will be helpful for the research business to adopt the present business trends. Through this project I was able to understand the significance of the qualitative and the quantitative research type, the research designs were understood by this project.

This internship period has helped me to develop my interpersonal skills like patience, customer handling, and listening skills. This also helped me to follow the model of customer satisfaction; this research is carried out by the inductive approach with the positivist philosophy in the research work.

Internship Experience at Root Restaurant

The major aspects of the business individual are the workplace safety and its security, whether the individual is the intern or the regular employee they are needed to follow the healthy and the safety guidelines for any organization. On the first day of my internship, the Root restaurant was able to provide the safety guidelines by the HR. the manager is the one who is responsible for raising awareness of safety among the interns. The example situation that changed my perspectives is that the interns were able to found out that the in the restaurant’s kitchen due to some mistake gas leaked out then by realizing that the intern informed other and this reflects the significance of the safety protocols and the safety guidelines. By this incident, the interns also reflected the leadership traits by showing empathy and respect towards the co-workers.  The intern also reflects his helpful nature towards his colleagues and also motivated the managers to bring the change management in the business practices. The employees also showed a positive attitude toward the intern and were pleased by his helpful behaviour towards the organization. Through this incident, it is clear that the intern showed the features of the efficient communicator towards the business.  

This research study is followed by the data collection through the depth surveys as it is already explained regarding the objectives, scope and purposes. This study suggests that the misinterpretation should be avoided by the statistical tools and the analysis tools for making the collected data relevant for the decision-making process. The research outcomes can be used as proof of the in-depth analysis of the problems. Thus the intern’s research skills would help to do an analysis of the factors, which affects negatively to the business operations. This has led the manager to bring up the innovative ideas for mitigating the operation cost and by delivering the tasks before the deadline within the organizational policy of “Zeroharm”.

Objective 1: To mitigate the operational cost

• Eluding delays in the tasks
• Maintaining low employee- turnover ratios
• Eluding the rework of the same task

Objective 2: To produce the task before the deadline

• Appropriate task allocations
• Providing professional training to the employees

Objective 3: maintaining the policy of “ZeroHarm.”

• Maintaining the update of timely change in policies
• Training awareness regarding the safety policies

The self-reflection chart involve SWOT analysis

Strength

• I have the ability to produce creative ideas
• I also comprised of the tendency to learn and getting new experiences
• I also have the ability to listen actively
• I can also become part of the cooperative and the proactive performers

Weakness

• I am mostly the single focused one that is I lack the ability to handle multi tasks at the same time
• I also have a fear of the failure
• I found out that gatherings of more people make me less product oriented
• I lack the ability to schedule the task that is which is the first and which is the next one

Opportunity

• By the internship period, I was able to develop myself as the manager
• I gain the opportunity to start up a new business
• I can utilize my relationship building skills with the high level engagements like the government institutions, financial institutions and other

Threats

• I was threatened by the greatest competitions among the graduates regarding the lesser job opportunity
• The customer’s requirement constantly changes
• There always remains dominance for the experienced persons on the newcomer
• The economic conditions are becoming uncertain

The qualities that the interns should be comprised of are that the interns are required to be initiated for any task. The interns are required to focus on their job role, and there should be proper collaborations among their colleagues. The interns are needed to be eager to learn various things. The major characteristics that the interns should be comprised of are that they should have the ability to critically think and evaluate. The interns are required to adopt the new characteristics of the restaurant business trends.

I gained the effective experience from my internship period which has helped me to develop my personality within the organizational culture. I have noticed that the various changes in myself that I was not able to talk firmly with the co-workers, managers because of the inexperience and the fears for the failures for continuing the interactions with the managers and the co-workers, the clients have helped me to realize the significance of the interpersonal communications.  

I was also able to learn and accept the criticism, and I was also helped to understand the changes in the working atmosphere and the business approaches that reflect the learning characteristics. Being an intern, I was also showed the leadership values and the team player attributes towards the different business situations. I was also given a chance to play leadership roles for noticing the issues that can arise in the business process.

Through the example cited this can be understood that instead of passing the buck the intern took the responsibility of saving his coworkers and the managers to cope up with the challenging issues that may arise in the organization. By gaining knowledge from such examples, I was opening up the ideas and was delivering my task on time to avoid further delays. The overall knowledge that I have gained is that being the intern; I should become the progressive initiator, influencer and the effective observer in this field.