Question: Can you answer question 2, please ? I will rate up :) You are the product manager of a confectionery company in the USA that
Can you answer question 2, please ? I will rate up :)
You are the product manager of a confectionery company in the USA that includes small plastie toys with its chocolate sweets. Having met a potential Chinese manufacturer of these toys at a trade fair in Europe, you now visit the company in the north-eastern part of China to finalize a two-year supply contract. Arriving there and talking to the sales manager, you are able to arrange a deal that supplies you with the toys at a third of the cost currently charged by your Portuguese supplier, but with equivalent quality and supply arrangements. In order to check the reliability of the manufacturing process you ask the manager to show around the place. You are surprised to find out that there is no real workshop on the premises Rather, the production process is organized such that at hom, about 30 men line up at the company's gate, load large boxes with toy components on their little carts or motor-scooters and the material to their homes Your prospective supplier then takes you to one of these places where you see a large family, sitting in a garage-like barn assembling the toys. Not only are the mother and father doing the job but also the couple's six children, aged 5 to 14, who are working busily and from what you see, very cheerfully together with the parents, while the grandmother is looking after the food in an adjacent room. In the evening, at around 8pm, the day's work is done the assembled toys are stored back in the boxes and taken to the workshop of the company, where the men receive their payment for the finished goods. At the end of the week, the toys are shipped to the customers in Europe As you never come across such a pattern of manufacturing your Chinese partner explains to you that this is a very common and well-established practice in this part of the country, and one which guarantees a good level of quality. Satisfied, you tell the Chinese manager that you will conclude the paperwork once you get back home, and you leave the company offices happy in the knowledge of the cost savings you're going to make, and quietly confident that it will result in a healthy bonus for you at the end of the year. On your way back, while buying some souvenirs for your 5 and 7 year old nieces at the airport, you suddenly start wondering if you would like to see them growing up the same way as the child workers that you have just employed to make your company's toys. Question 1 - What is the main ethical dilemma that the product manager is facing? b. Discuss what will the be the most likely decision the product manager will make if he abides by each of the 4 views of ethical behavior. i.e. Discuss what he will decide if he follows each view) Make sure to clearly mention why For each of the decisions you discussed in part b discuss the ethicality of that decision from the point of view of the Chinese families that are doing the job indicating why or why not they will find that decision ethical Question 2 Compare the 2 cultures on the 5 cultural dimensions b. If you are a manager that is given the task of coming up with a compensation system for 2 companies in the same industry but with one in the us and on in China, how does your knowledge of where the 2 cultures fall on cach dimension affect that compensation system. Basically, I want you to tell me how the difference between the 2 cultures on cach dimension will affect the compensation systems design Give examples to clarify answer - There is a debate about the positive and negative impact of foreign direct investments from MNEs or MNCs on developing societies. Discuss what do you think is the overall impact of such agreements, as the one in this case, on the local society in the long run