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    Globalization Issues

    Number of Pages: 13

     

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    In thirteen pages globalization's pros and cons are evaluated. Ten sources are cited in the bibliography.

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    centers on exploitation of uneducated, poor people in developing nations. Businesses moving manufacturing, mining or other operations to developing nations venues frequently are castigated as being exploiters of disadvantaged  humanity, seeking only their own financial gain and associated benefit for their shareholders. Critics of globalization refuse to see any benefit at all, which has been the case in  complaints about companies such as Gap and Nike. Benefits of Globalization Employee Benefits In some  cases, the charges have been valid. Many Asian and other nations see no real problem with sweatshop conditions or child labor, but that is where one of the benefits  of cross-border merger and acquisition lies. Critics have charged that cross-border merger and acquisition "westernizes" developing nations, imposing Western culture in places where it does not belong.  While true that most cross-border merger and acquisition has been West-to-East, the reverse also was true before Japans bubble economy stumbled. As Japanese companies  moved into the US to circumvent protectionist factions seeking insulation from the effects of free trade in the consumer electronics and auto industries, workers in the areas local to new  locations of Japanese companies came to see an entirely different world. Employees were valued for their efforts as well as their ideas, they were empowered to function as valuable  members of self-directed teams. These effects combined with the increasing pressures of global competition served to improve conditions in which "blue collar" - hourly, semi-skilled - workers performed their  duties. One of the benefits is that globalization brings other perspectives into areas where they would not otherwise exist, thereby improving the quality 

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