Monday, 19 October 2015

GLOBALIZATION good or bad?

sedikit perkongsian tentang pandangan terhadap globalisasi.. =)

Introduction
            Nowadays, international transfer and communication is very common things among us. Goods and services can be easily promoted to others countries in a short time. This is called the era of globalization. First of all, what is globalization? Globalization is something that has been with human being ever since the world has begun. The result of human innovation and technological progress has made globalization. As we all known globalization is where there is interaction and integration among the people, companies, and governments from different nations. It is aided by information technology which a process driven by international trading and investing. Globalization is worldwide development of an increasingly integrated global economy market. Although globalization is often thought as economic terms, globalization has a lot of social and political implications as well. Besides that globalization can be associate with modernization which is the transformation of traditional societies into modern societies. Globalization is affecting the world business in this 21st century. According to article written by (Chowdhury, 2012) In future times, our next generation is important because they are the one who will be taking off all the asset we left for them. Therefore, their view and opinion of globalization is important for further development. The study of attitude of student towards globalization should be done to understanding their points of views to find out whether there is any differences between the future business leaders with the general public and current business leaders. Furthermore, globalization is giving us many advantages and disadvantages. Is globalization good or bad? There is some opinion that include good and bad of globalization nowadays in view of general aspects.
Creating A Global Job
The process of globalization in business is the latest trend in the business world, where all countries and organizations in the world want to trade across borders of each state. ( Rafidah Manap dan Mokhtar Pet, 2013) state that the world situation is rapidly increasing with the advancement of the technology makes the process of globalization is becoming increasingly easy for business organizations. Organizations that wish to conduct international business will find and build their business location, where location is generally will undertake marketing, manufacturing, human resource management and technology transfer. Malaysia did not miss from becoming a focus of the organization’s business for started an international business. This indirectly helped Malaysia to reduce unemployment and create job opportunities for Malaysians.  For example, First Solar in Arizona, US has opened a new company in Malaysia which located in Hi – Tech Park, Kulim has helped the State to create a job opportunities. (Solar, 2008). Where at the beginning of the opening just 109 worker needed and has increased to 3,500 workers in October, 2011. (Rattanachot, 2008). In addition, the establishment of the world’s leading semiconductor chip production based in the United State has helped Vietnam and Malaysia in particular to solve the problem of unemployment and job creation. According to Robin, General Manager of Intel Malaysia’s Production Test, around the 40 years of operation in Malaysia, Intel had about 9,300 worker. (RADUIAN, 2012). This is enough to prove that globalization helps in creating jobs and based on the study that conducted by the Fact Tank found 54% person believe that globalization is good to create jobs. (Stokes, 2014).
Increase Of Wages
The benefits of globalization can create an international trade which can increase the wages interest and purchasing power especially in low income country such as Africa. When a country engages in international trade, the households’ income will stretch further and their real purchasing power will rises. This is because they can obtain the goods and services at lower price and good quality. Due to international competition, the producers also can obtain the goods and services at minimum possible cost and high quality. As the market has widened, the demand and scope for a goods and services has increased. This increases the efficiency and benefits to the consumers all over the world. By the ways, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) will rise from its factor of production that is not used to produce goods and services that other countries at lower resource cost. Globalization has significantly boosted the economic growth in East Asian economies such as Hong Kong, the Republic of Korea, and Singapore. Through the globalization, the country will opens its borders to free movement in and out of goods and services and then provides the chance and incentive to move the country’s resources into their highest-value uses, thereby facilitating economic growth.
Globalization has created the economic growth that can reduce poverty by increase their wages in low-income countries. For example, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and most other East Asian countries were very poor and their wage rates were very low. As wages and incomes have risen in each country in succession that country has become a better market for products and services in which the United States is competitive. For example, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan became the best markets for Midwestern corn and soybean products as people there gained the purchasing power to include more animal protein in their diets.
Promote Economic Development of the Country in Technology
The era of globalization sweeping the world would not be complete without the existence of the development of information technology. Through the dissemination of information on a large scale will certainly lead us to an electronic civilization. As we all know that information technology relating to various means to receive and transmit information such as words, pictures, sounds and numbers that can be made electronically. Internet are one of the improvement in technology, is a medium that is used to get the latest information. Now many of organization wisely used internet to obtain information for trade, advertising, education, news and so on. Through the internet, we can simplify make process of both local and international trade without having to go to a trade.
In addition to that, the traders can expand their business using the internet, e-mail and others. For companies that want to market their business to an international level, they can make use of video conferencing to discuss with overseas companies. This shows that touch every aspect of the business of trading of goods, quantity, quality and complete details about the sale and purchase agreement will be made with the E-commerce and other facilities provided by advances in information and communication technologies. Globalization of the economy will also promote technology transfer from developed countries to developing countries.
According to Newton (2009) technological advances that have helped the process of globalization reach the extent that it has reached. Through modern technology, globalization and the transfer of expertise from developed countries can builds economic structure of developing countries. In addition, information technology, which creates a communication platform that enables the exchange of goods, communication and resources regardless of geographic proximity, greatly increased the international flow of commerce and ideas. In addition to capital, the level of backward technology and shortage of experts is also a major barrier to most of the developing countries to progress in the modern economy. The changes of technology in economic, people will learn how to control technology through advanced training and collaboration in the context of research and development (R & D). The training will eventually produce local people who can master the foreign expertise and advance their own country. This situation can be seen in HITEC technology in Malaysia that shows Malaysia to much depend in transfer of Japanese technology, design technology, quality control, communication technology and expertise in the management of another. Globalization can transfer the modern technology and the transfer of expertise from countries that are more advanced, such as Japan, USA, Germany and others can be implemented in developing countries. Local people must learn methods of handling technology through advanced training and collaboration in the context of R&D manpower. Eventually expertise will be affordable for local people that would be used to develop the country. Globalization also widen the technology and global market.
BAD OF GLOBALIZATION
The world today is more dangerous and less orderly than it was supposed to be. As a new transformation of the way that people doing their business, there is some negative side that people must look for. Globalization not always be the good in business activities, globalization also be harmful and point of negative impact for people who hard to accept the concept of this cross-border business transaction.
Slower The Process Of Developing Country
Globalization can bring some bad effect when it transfers jobs from developed countries to less developed countries. Globalization levels the playing field, in a way that makes it hard for developed countries to compete. A country with a lower cost structure which means with lower wages and benefits for wokers and also more inexpensive coal in its energy mixare able to out-compete a typical OECD country (The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development). We analyze an issue of prime importance for the future of China's economy. The decline in coal supply will make a challenge to China's economic growth when coal price is rising and also have an adverse or bad impact on economic growth.That is how we determine that globalization also give a bad impact in globalization and when it happened so then it will also related to the international business. It is because international business is make a relationship with another country. So, if the economic in another country decline it might be happen that the business between two country getting not good. Besides, there is an article that is related to the China’s economy which is “An analysis of China’s coal supply and its impact on China’s future economic growth”. In this article that i have found it state that “Many people believe that China's economic growth can continue almost indefinitely. For a manufacturing-based economy such as China's to continue to grow, it needs an adequate supply of inexpensive energy. To date, this energy growth has primarily come from coal, but China's indigenous coal supplies are now falling short of the amount needed to support this growth. In this situation, the status of China's future coal supply will be very important for China's future economic development. (JianliangWang, Energy Policy , 2013)
Anti-Globalization
Since the late 1990, members of the countercultural movement made up largely of activists, intellectuals, and students all over the world have banded together in opposition to globalization, the raise of worldwide capitalism driven by technological advances in manufacturing and communication industries.
Groups as diverse as AIDS activists, union laborest, animal right advocates, environmentalists, youth coalitions, and senior citizens have united against the exploitative practices that globalization is said to result in, such as fourteen-hour workdays, sweatshop working conditions, minimal pay, environmental damage, and the corporate patenting of indigenous knowledgein the field of medicine and agriculture.
            Through the coordinated efforts of organizations such as Global Exchange, Focus on Global South, 50 Years Is Enough, and the International Forum on Globalizations, there have been several successful protests, forums and other events aimed at raising anti-globalization conciousness and disseminating information among people in all parts of the world.
            The defining movement occured during the 1999 World Trade Organizations (WTO) Ministerial Summit in Seattle, where thousands of people representing hundreds of different organizations gathered to support the right of the world’s poorest and most marginalized people. Since the event, anti-globalization activists have successfully organized and protested as such major meeting as the 2000 International Monetary Fund/World Bank (IMF/WB) Summit in Prague, in the Czech Republic and another protest.  (Misiroglu, march 2015 )   
Higher Tax Rate
Globalization tends to move taxation away from corporations, and onto individual citizens. Corporation has the ability to move their location where the tax are at the lowest. The individual citizen will have much less ability to make such a change and with the lack of jobs in this era each community will have to competes with other communities with respect to how many tax breaks it can give to prospective employers. Since many companies are able to trade with one country while being based in another, large corporations often exploit tax havens such as Luxembourg, Switzerland, and Hong Kong to avoid paying taxes in the countries where they generate their profits. This can often hurt consumers in the form of higher taxes on consumer products and property. Since countries often have little control over where big companies register to avoid tax, they are often forced to raise other taxes in order to make up for lost revenues due to corporate tax avoidance. (gibson, 2014) .
Collapse
Globalization ties all countries together, so that if one country collapses, the collapse is likely to ripple through the system, pulling many other countries with it. In the history there have many examples of civilization that has started from a small base, that gradually grew to over-utilize their resource base, and then collapse. The new generation leader will be dealing with this world situation which is not too different from this era. The difference for the new generation leader is that there is a large number of countries is involved, and this countries are increasing interdependently. United States has the perilous financial condition and many European countries and Japan are also in the similar poor condition. The failure of one country has been the potential to pull many other downs, and with it much of the system. In this era, when one area collapsed, there was less interdependence and it was possible to let cropland ‘rest’ and deforested areas re-grow. With the regeneration, and perhaps new technology, it was possible for a new civilization to grow in the same area. As the new generation leader are dealing with a world-wide collapse, it will be much more difficult to follow this model (tverberg, 2013)
Conclusion
For the conclusion, although more point discuss about disadvantages of globalization, globalization actually good for the future economic growth. Creating a global job, increase of wages and promote economic development of the country in technology actually will bring a lot of good impact to an economic.  Globalization is something that all people realize and rapidly expand nowadays. Not only for business, people also influence by it, such as social media. Technically they all will be one of the part of globalization through their sharing, tagging and uploading. Social networks are now clearly in the ascendancy compared to other social media forms such as blogs and user groups. Since 2009, they have emerged as the primary way regular internet users stay in contact with each other. At the same year, official company and brand web sites have typically been losing audiences. We believe this is probably due, in part, to the emergence of social media marketing by brands which is an increasingly pervasive MarComs practice. Globally, 18 percent of users claim to have actively set up an online brand community, arguably the ultimate expression of consumers wishing to control their relationship with brands. (M, December 2011). No doubt that all the user of this technology is among the people that born in globalization era and also known as Generation Y. They are freely accept the concept of globalization. When we look for next generation, that born in most rapidly expending of technology, they will be much more expert in using all of the technology by that time. The future leader must know better how to handle the power of technologies during that time. That can be the point of globalization is good when people apply it on the right way. People can do many think in expending their business globally through the full usage of internet. Sometimes they don’t need to go across their national boundaries. For example, they can use courier to deliver their product to customers globally. Courier companies also apply this globalization to expend their business. So, why not people take an advantages on their business. According to the International Post Corporation, in 2008, the UE CEP market turnover was 37.4 billion Euros (business to business (B2B) and business to consumer (B2C) parcels), and adding consumer to consumer (C2C), the CEP market turnover could reach 42.2 billion Euros (Ducret, July 2014).

 

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