Question

You are an expatriate manager at a manufacturing facility in Asia on your first assignment abroad. You are aware of increasing concern among your employees (mostly young women) about wages that barely permit them to live at subsistence level. The plant is not unionized, and you know that your superiors in your home country are not particularly supportive of efforts to organize workers. You also know that if workers vote to form a union and then demand higher wages, headquarters is likely to shift production elsewhere. If the plant were shut down, your employees would lose their jobs, and you would be transferred. Should you encourage or discourage your workers in their efforts to unionize? Explain your decision. Then copy-

Answer 1

ANSWER:-

As manager of the manufacturing facility, headquarters could be asked for things other than salary that could improve the standards of living for the workers. A donation to a local charity that helps out poor families is one option. Another is to give local schools and hospitals grant money for needed repairs or equipment. Another option is to provide health check-ups free of charge for the workers and their immediate families. Anything that could be helpful in terms of raising living standards yet would not jeopardize the jobs of employees is probably the best avenue to follow.