DEVRY PROJ 410 Week 5 DQ 1

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DEVRY PROJ 410 Week 5 DQ 1

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• As your textbook indicated, business process
  outsourcing has become an emerging trend in most
  small- and large-size corporations. This has been
  particularly true during the last year and a
  half, as many companies have turned to
  outsourcing in order to reduce overhead costs
  during these recessionary times. Identify some
  companies with which you have been personally
  associated, or companies that you have read about
  which have gone through the outsourcing process
  for some of their business operations. How did
  affected employees react to the outsource
  process?
• With all of the things that can go wrong with
  outsourcing do you think that there should be
  better laws in place to regulate outsourcing? For
  example, do you think there should be a law that
  says that a company can not outsource to another
  company if that company has had minimum wage or
  safety violations?

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• In this emerging economy, we hear that a lot more
  jobs are going overseas, yet at the detriment of
  the U.S. work force. We always heard of
  manufacturing being a sector that has looked to
  overseas for purposes of reducing costs. What are
  some of the newer business processes that are
  being outsourced?
• Tacit knowledge is based on personal experience,
  rules of thumb, intuition and judgment. It
  includes professional know-how and expertise,
  individual insight and experience, and creative
  solutions that are difficult to communicate and
  pass on to others. Explicit knowledge may be
  equated with "knowing about" whereas tacit
  knowledge is equated with "knowing how". As much
  as 80 percent of an organization's valuable
  knowledge may be tacit knowledge that is not
  easily captured and transferred. What are your
  thoughts?
• What are some of the issues that may arise (and
  how are they resolved) when companies try to
  transition employees? (As an example, think of an
  employee being transitioned to a company that has
  a health care program that is inferior to the one
  presently provided by the current employer).
• What are your thoughts on the outsourcing of the
  HR function? This is one are that is typically
  responded to by employees with a lot of
  skepticism and discontent. What are some pluses
  for outsourcing it, and some minuses?
• Let's suppose you have chosen to outsource a
  major division of your company (one that employs
  20 of your workforce). The employees will either
  be transitioned to the vendor, transferred to a
  different division within the firm, or
  terminated. What do you think are three critical
  considerations that you must include in the
  implementation plan for this outsourcing
  transition? Describe why you would include each
  of the considerations you
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