Some authors feel that globalization has reached a deadlock, that due to uncertain economic conditions, worldwide, it has stalled in terms of growth. Describe where you see globalization over the next five years, expanding, contracting, or staying the same.
Describe what you believe to be the strategic differences between globalization, rationalization, and localization. 2. Discuss two reactive responses and two proactive reasons why firms wish to become involved with globalization. 3. Describe an entry strategy used by your Strategic Audit firm to enter global markets. 4. Describe the benefits and pitfalls of making a strategic alliance with another global firm. 5. Identify and analyze an actual global joint venture that has occurred over the past few years. 6. Discuss the difference between equity and non-equity strategic alliances.
Conduct a “Windshield Survey” in a section of your community. Instructions for the survey can be found in Stanhope and Lancaster (2016) on page 416, Table 18-6. As you notice, conducting a Windshield Survey requires that you either walk around or drive around a particular section of the community and take notes about what you observe. A Windshield Survey cannot be conducted by reviewing websites or Google Earth only. It requires actually taking a look at the selected area of the community. This survey should be focused on the problem and population you have selected for your practicum project. If you choose, for example, obesity among Hispanic schoolchildren, you might want to locate a section of the community where many Hispanic children live, or you might want to conduct the Windshield Survey around where Hispanic children attend school. If Hispanic children are not found in a specific section of your community (e.g., Chinatown in San Francisco or Harlem in New York),
identify current issues in Age Discrimination in the workplace, social, economic, and political factors that will impact Age Discrimination in the future, and your recommendations for approaches that organizations should take to address age discrimination in the future.
essay is about sexual harassment in the workplace, a topic which has garnered a great deal of attention recently. Review the required readings in the background material and then prepare a memo to yourself as follows: You are a newly assigned top HRM professional in your organization and you wish to review your organization’s sexual harassment policies and training. You will begin by identifying and explaining the key legal concepts in sexual harassment in the workplace. Then, using the background material and your own research, discuss aspects of recent developments in sexual harassment that are relevant to how your organization addresses sexual harassment in the workplace. Finally, identify and explain what you consider future developments in this topic will be and how your organization’s policies and training concerning sexual harassment will need to be adapted.
