Throduction to Organizational Behavior activities. However, it grows controversial when the jobs being outsourced are really being exported to foreign countries in ways that reduce domestic job opportunities. Contingent and temporary workers and the creation of a tiered workforce also pose special challenges. These challenges center around the treatment of various groups (such as contingent or lower tier workers) com- pared to other groups (such as permanent or higher-tier employees). DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 1. Which do you think is more important to team performance, surface-level or deep-level diversity? Why? 2. How can diversity create a competitive advantage for a firm? 3. If a subordinate came to you and said that they felt the company's new diversity hiring initiative was unfair and would compromise their well- deserved opportunities for advancement, how would you respond? 4. What can leaders do to be effective when team members are from different cultures and have different expectations about how the leader should behave? 5. Identify at least three ways in which the globalization of business affects businesses in your community. 6. What roles do changing technologies play in your daily activities? 7. Do you think that concerns regarding ethics will become more or less important in business? Why? 8. What are your personal opinions about international outsourcing in the garment industry? Do you think that lower prices are worth sending U.S. jobs to other countries? Explain your