Question

You are a corporate R&D manager at Boeing and are considering transferring some R&D work to China, India and Russia, where the work performed by a U.S. engineer making $70,000 a year can be done by an equally capable engineer making less than $7,000 a year. However, U.S. engineers at Boeing have staged protests against such moves. U.S. Politicians are similarly vocal concerning job losses and national security hazards. What are you going to do?

Please answer in detail in no less than 3 paragraphs.

Answer 1

Ans:-

=> In this situation of nature, I would have to follow all the regulations or directives of headquarters and provide a very brief learning experience for the managers that they should visit my subsidiary. I would be very planned(strategy vise) in the manner in which I provided these managers with information that would help them.

You have to show your boss and the engineers and the politicians (where the latter most likely through your boss) that

1) The work which has to be done by me is a very new work or extra(new) work which is doing very slowly or it is not getting donebyme at same time.

2) This extra(new) work wil not affect cost of any type of jobs, except for a bit of natural attrition(reducing effectiveness) and for the most of the part the US engineers will shifting to any high level or any other or any long term projects.

3) This wil make Boeing to achieve maximum productivity with minimum wasted effort or expense and this will help the firm to hire more engineers and grow and develop their business.

4) This work specifies that this work is not detailed,explained, sensitive or any defense-related. IBM has to perform the latter two of these tasks, specially number 4, upon its sale of the PC division to Lenovo in China.

5) Many US politicians were concerned about IBM naturally that IBM was letting microcomputing technology key out to a (business) competitor and and it also letting the key in a rival in relations between state to state.

6) It was a duty or responsibility upon IBM to show that the technology in PC being sold was most part off the shelf and Lenovo would not be learning any upcoming major new technologies and techniques that could be seen as potentially very harmful to US firms and national interests.