Name: Jasper Manuta

BSHM - 3B

GE 4- THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD

Activity No. 1: Let’s Apply!

DIRECTIONS: Read and analyze the scenarios given below. Write your answers on a
separate sheet of bond paper and submit it through Google Classroom or drop it in the
office.

GLOBALIZATION
 SCENARIO
A. In your local town, one
of the main sources
of employment for three
generations has been
the fruit cannery. The
company has recently
decided to close the factory
and outsource the
canning fruit to another
country where labor and
fruit are cheaper.
B. The shoes that you
really like are cheaper via
an online shop in Japan.
C. The company where
your father works for
has recently been taken
over by a transnational
corporation with job
opportunities in many parts
of the world.
ADVANTAGE DISADVANTAGE
The liquidator will make Because liquidation marks
employees redundant, and the end of a business, all
if they are eligible, they employees who worked
can file a claim for for it will be laid off and
redundancy compensation forced to hunt for work
and other statutory elsewhere. Following their
benefits. If the proceeds dismissal, individuals may
from the sale of company be eligible for statutory
assets are insufficient to redundancy pay,
cover redundancy depending on their length
payments, employees have of service with the
another option to recover company.
what they are owed. When
a corporation is unable to
pay for redundancy,
unpaid wages, or holiday
pay with its own finances,
the National Insurance
Fund steps in.
You don’t have to drive The sad part of online
around town to shopping is, you cannot
comparison shop for the touch the product and feel
shoes you want. how it is. You can just see
Free online shipping at the image and read the
some stores. Many online description. Online
shoe stores offer free shopping is not suitable
shipping. for people who wish to
buy the product only after
trying it or by touching it.
They create jobs for the Often the jobs are highly
local population skilled and so the
company brings in their
own people to do them.
Also, the technological
nature of many of these
companies means that
there aren't as many jobs
as there might have been.