Outsourcing: Pros and ConsOutsourcing: Pros and Cons

Mr. Rush

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Mr. Rush

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Essential Questions

• What Is Outsourcing?• Is outsourcing a good or bad thing?• How have jobs changed due to outsourcing?

• What Is Outsourcing?• Is outsourcing a good or bad thing?• How have jobs changed due to outsourcing?

What we will do TodayWhat we will do Today

Agenda• 1) Ideal job Collins.• 2)Read: Business Week

article: Commentary: Outsourcing Jobs: Is it Bad? 3)Create a T-chart- Pros/ Cons of outsourcing

• 4)Discussion: The Pros/ Cons of outsourcing

• 1) Ideal job Collins.• 2)Read: Business Week

article: Commentary: Outsourcing Jobs: Is it Bad? 3)Create a T-chart- Pros/ Cons of outsourcing

• 4)Discussion: The Pros/ Cons of outsourcing

Objectives• Purpose: What are the

positives and negatives of Outsourcing?

• Essential Questions:1) What advantages might a business have from outsourcing?

• What are some disadvantages?

• a.If you owned a business, how might you resolve the question of outsourcing or not? How would you respond to your critics?

• Purpose: What are the positives and negatives of Outsourcing?

• Essential Questions:1) What advantages might a business have from outsourcing?

• What are some disadvantages?

• a.If you owned a business, how might you resolve the question of outsourcing or not? How would you respond to your critics?

Ideal Job Collins

• 1. What is a field or career that interests you?• 2. Did this field exist one hundred years ago?

Fifty years ago? • 3. How has this field changed in the course of

your lifetime? • 4. How has this field changed since when your

parents were your age?

Ideal Job Collins continued

• 5. What are some current trends in this field? • 6. What personal qualities, skills, and

knowledge does a person entering this field today require?

• 7. Do you foresee changes twenty years from now? If so, what changes? If not, why not?”

Business Week Article

• Read the introduction• Is Outsourcing Bad?– Yes article– No article

• Rewrite 7 arguments for and against outsourcing in the chart