Wipro Case In this case, we will award 20 total substantive points as follows. QUESTION 1: How did outsourcing work to Wipro improve General Electric’s ability to compete in the global economy? (3 points) Does such outsourcing harm or benefit the American economy? (2 points) ANSWER 1a: Award 3 points if the case write-up mentions ANY TWO OR MORE of the following points. Award 1 point if the case write-up mentions ONE of the following points. *GE was able to reduce the labor portion of
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UNIT 3 PRACTICE Follow-up Questions for Congressional Hearing • What was the original purpose for calling a meeting in Philadelphia in 1787? Why was the purpose changed? By whose authority was it changed? • In what ways were the delegates representative of the American people? IN what ways were they not representative? • Should the topics being debated at the Philadelphia Convention have been reported to the public? Why or why not? • Explain the difference between equal representation and proportional
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Question 1 Video 1: https://www.ted.com/talks/eric_liu_why_ordinary_people_need_to_understand_power/transcript?language=en a. Liu’s definition of power: The definition of power means the capacity to make others do what you would have them to do. b. Liu’s definition of civics: The definition of civics simply means the art of being a pro-social, problem-solving, problem-solving contributor in a self-governing community. c. The result of our creeping fatalism in public life is: Depressingly
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needs to help raise money. The British government came up with the stamp act of 1765 which imposed a tax on all paper documents in the colonies. This made colonist furious. They began rebelling saying the tax was unconstitutional. The colonist brought down the act and this picture represents the “funeral of the stamp act” according to the aftermath of the rebellion. 1. If you were in parliament at the time would you have been for or against the act and why? (I would have been for it because they
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QUESTION 3: Unions in developed nations often oppose imports from low-wage countries and advocate trade barriers to protect jobs from what they often characterize as “unfair” import competition. Is such competition “unfair”? Do you think that this argument is in the best interests of (a) the unions, (b) the people they represent, and/or (c) the country as a whole? QUESTION 4: What are the potential costs of adopting a free trade regime? Do you think governments should do anything to reduce
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Checklist Name: Form: |Have you? |Student Check |Teacher Check | |Planning | |Looked at example Investigations | | | |Used the booklets and help sheets given to you
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following: * Analyze how markets work and make recommendations for or against any form of price control. Explain your rationale. * Make at least one recommendation concerning U.S. government regulation that would make the economy stronger. The market has implements many strategies to control price. The one most think of though first is supply and demand. Supply is how much of something is available. Demand is how much of something people want. This is something that has been going on since the beginning
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Organizing Ideas Tracking central ideas and key details can help you navigate the complexity of a nonfiction text. After reading “Why We’re Still Arguing About Gun Control,” fill in the blank sections below to provide a full picture of the information presented in the article. Issues often discussed in debates about gun control: 1. Background checks for the people that buy guns 2. “Laws regulating who can carry weapons in public” 3. The kinds of guns and gun accessories that are available for the
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Case 11 1. In your own words, can you describe the Wise concept of “public service culture”? What does the author mean by that term? What assumptions about human nature does her motivational concept rest on? Do you believe these are valid assumptions? a. Public service culture is a human need. Unfortunately, these days that means where the money is, employees will go. People use to be satisfied with helping the public, but now without appropriate compensation it is hard to keep some employees
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the word means. To be separated and by unjust means at that. 2. What is the difference between “civil disobedience” and criminal activity? If you risk your arrest, that is civil disobedience. If you risk the life, limbs, property, safety of others, you have become a criminal and lost your ethics, and it is no longer civil disobedience. 3. Why does he like being viewed as an “extremist” He likes being viewed as an extremist because others before him have been one as well and it brought change
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