Part A, Question 1 (30 possible points) To determine for yourself whether you believe Nike workers in other countries are better off because NIKE is there and provides jobs, RESEARCH and answer THREE of the following questions (10 points each). You must support your answers with RESEARCH and URLs/Sites for that research. I’m looking for at least 8-10 sentences of discussion and no less than 2 cites per each bulleted question you answer.
You must go beyond the clips and information I provided:
• What is the cost living in the worker’s country and how do the wages compare with average earnings?
• Do the workers have to do this work? Why/why not?
• Does having the US company there have a chilling impact on other home-grown industries?
• How corrupt is the government there?
• What is the life of a worker like since the US company came to the worker’s country?
• What do local people say about the company?
• What benefits does the US company bring to the local community?
Look at the NIKE corporate board members. Be sure you are looking at the corporate board members and not shareholders and not executive leadership only.
- What do you notice about this board in terms of their gender, age and experience they bring to the board? (5 points)
- Based on perspectives which are missing, who would you recommend serve on the board and why? (5 points)
- How likely is this board to decide to limit CEO pay? Why do you believe that? (5 points)
- How likely is this board to look closely into the issues that Jim Keady raises? Why do answer that way? (5 points)