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Wednesday, March 23, 2011

BLOG 19 - Outsourcing (ASIA)

Is Outsourcing Good? Is Outsourcing Bad? What are the advantages and disadvantages of Outsourcing? Who benefits from Outsourcing? Why is there so much controversy produced by Outsourcing?

What exactly is outsourcing?
1. Define outsourcing in your own words. Stay away from this Wikipedia article - even they acknowledge problems with this page.

2. Read this article: Two Sides of the Coin

3. Read this slideshow from Business Week

4. View this article about which US companies outsource.

5. Offer pros and cons of outsourcing jobs to China, India, or other countries in Asia.

14 comments:

Dijiona said...
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JSmoove2456 said...

Outsourcing is often refers to the process of subcontracting to a third-party. Some pros of outsourcing jobs to China, India, or other countries are Cost Savings, Quality services, and Access to specialized skills. Some cons of outsourcing are Linguistic barriers, staff turnover, and Social Responsibility.

Unknown said...

to me Outsourcing is alright, but for some countrys it can be good like india it can lower they money value for things and lower labor cost.outsourcing can be bad too it can cause people to loose there jobs.

Dijiona said...

outSourcing is cool, some countrys dont have it like how other countrys have it. it also can be good like how india got it but then again no cause peolpe loose there jobs, homes anything so it can be both.

Unknown said...

outsourcing is contracting with another company or person to do a particular function. to me it can be a bad thing or an good thing. it all depeneds on how you are as a person, because it would be good if you was trying to get a job at an school. but you quite KFC, for that job. now both companys are outsourcing you on how you work, and how you are as a person. some outscoring jobs in china and india are farming

Unknown said...

Outsouring is to purchase products from outside suppliers that want some goods. organization company.

Faye said...

outsourcing is contracting with another company or person to do a particular function. to me it can be a bad thing or an good thing. it all depeneds on how you are as a person, because it would be good if you was trying to get a job at an school. but you quite KFC, for that job. now both companys are outsourcing you on how you work, and how you are as a person. some outscoring jobs in china and india are farming

hogan prep class of 2012 said...

outsourcing is getting your goods are anything from an outside person or company in another state or city. outsourcing can be a good and a bad thing

mani said...

Outsourcing is basically trade but the other person doesn't get anything in return , outsourcing is fine if your country cant provide every thing for you

All about buisness said...

Outsourcing is good in some ways. A prime example is If your country is vey poor you might want to outsource to get what your country needs. If your country is rich Tha you might not want to outsource as much because you might run outof products later.

malaysia said...

I think that outsourcing is when companies or businesses buy goods or hire out services or busineses from an outside supplier or source.
I think that outsourcing is mostly bad and a little okay. The advantages of outsourcing is that Americans got to purchase cheaper products. The disadvantage of outsourcing is that many people were laid off. And since they were jobless then they dont make any money to support their family financially. I think that there is so much controversy produces by outsourcing because it is a win - win situation and also a win - loose situation. Both parties dont benefit from outsourcing.

Some pros and cons of outsourcing jobs to China, India or other countries is Asia are that:

Pros: Products and goods are sold cheaper.

It also benefits Eldery people

Share Holders get higher profit

Cons: We are already losing alot of jobs, they give them to the misfortune

India and China graduate ten times more engineers then we the USA do.

Another con is we are losing are Technology such as our electronics .

Anonymous said...

to me outsource means to send out work, for example to an outside provider or manufacturer in order to cut costs.

*Pros of outsourcing to China:
1. products/goods/costs are cheap
2. affordable products/goods/costs

*Cons of outsourcing to China
1. products/goods - bad quality (maybe)
2. for example: if trying to get something made in China instead of the United states, it may take longer to get made in China than in the united states

bejja said...

to me outsource means to purchase products from outside supplier or source that buy goods or hire out services or busineses.
the *cons are people in the united states are out of jobs.they make a lot of the stuff we have and if something happened between us we wouldnt really have anything over here(as in some car, shoes,brandname stuff, bag etc.) the *pros are we have good products and there affordable, the costs is not high for them to make the stuff. we get stuff we want and like.

Breasia.Jones said...

Outsourcing to me is an arrangement in which one company provides services for another company that could also be or usually have been provided in-house. Outsourcing is a trend that is becoming more common in information technology and other industries for services that have usually been regarded as to managing a business.In some cases, the entire information management of a company is outsourced, including planning and business.