How has increasing globalization affected business? What will ...

[Frost2351]

How has increasing globalization affected business?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Until passage of the Taft-Hartley Act, the ________ was dominant in labor contracts. Under this arrangement, an individual would join the union, be trained by the union, and sent to work for an employer by the union.
 
  A) controlled shop
  B) closed shop
  C) labor shop
  D) union shop
  E) restricted shop

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Answer to Question 1

Answer: Globalization has impacted how and where companies do business. Free trade areasagreements that reduce tariffs and barriers among trading partnersencourage international trade. The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the European Union (EU) are examples. Globalization has boomed for the past 50 or so years. For example, the total sum of U.S. imports and exports rose from 47 billion in 1960, to 562 billion in 1980, to about 5.1 trillion recently. Changing economic and political philosophies drove this boom. Governments dropped cross-border taxes or tariffs, formed economic free trade areas, and took other steps to encourage the free flow of trade among countries. The fundamental economic rationale was that by doing so, all countries would gain, and indeed, economies around the world did grow quickly until recently. At the same time, globalization vastly increased international competition. More globalization meant more competition, and more competition meant more pressure to be world classto lower costs, to make employees more productive, and to do things better and less expensively. As multinational companies jockey for position, many transfer operations abroad, not just to seek cheaper labor but to tap into new markets. For example, Toyota has thousands of sales employees based in America, while GE has over 10,000 employees in France. The search for greater efficiencies prompts some employers to offshore (export jobs to lower-cost locations abroad, as when Dell offshored some call-center jobs to India). Some employers offshore even highly skilled jobs such as lawyer. Managing the people aspects of globalization is a big task for any company that expands abroadand for its HR managers.

Answer to Question 2

B

[Frost2351]

Excellent

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