Outsourcing: Let's Get It Right

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“The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened” (Kennedy, 1963). Continuous improvements in technology capabilities have provided companies with tools to more easily conduct business on a global scale. However, when conducting business with different cultures, you risk different ethical standards. Companies should be accountable for ensuring their product or services can be received by the consumer in good conscience, void of human ethics violations, regardless of where the product or service originates; and consumers should not patronize companies that cannot ensure this trust. This paper provides rhetorical analyses of two presentations pertaining to outsourcing. Neither particularly opposes outsourcing, yet each provides information addressing two different outsourcing concerns. Kibbe’s 2004 article “Outsourcing: the good, the bad and the inevitable” focuses on United States (U.S.) job impact. Van Heerden’s 2010 speech “Making Global Labor Fair” focuses on human rights impact. Rhetorical Analysis: Kibbe (2004) “Outsourcing: the good, the bad and the inevitable” Kibbe (2004) uses the rhetorical devise loaded language combined with either-or-fallacy and the rhetorical devises comparisons, definitions, and explanations combined with downplayer to influence readers to accept outsourcing as an acceptable way of business in today’s multinational world. The article focuses on how offshore outsourcing impacts the U.S. job market. Kibbe’s use of loaded language in the article’s introduction sets the stage to attain reader support for outsourcing. Kibbe (2004) begins the article with two outsourcing definitions: “Outsourcing is either the smartest business practice . . . or the most repugna... ... middle of paper ... ...is a law of human psychology, or human nature. And it will not be repealed by our wishes, nor will it be merciful to our blindness” (Pickens, n.d.). Works Cited Colorado State University-Global Campus.(2010).Module 3 – What do the words mean [Blackboard ecourse]. In HUM101 – Critical Reasoning. Greenwood Village, CO: Author. Kennedy, J.F. (1963). Civil rights announcement. Retrieved from http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/primary-resources/jfk-civilrights/ Kibbe, C. (2004). Outsourcing: the good, the bad and the inevitable. New Hampshire business review, 26(14), 1A. Pickens, W. (n.d.). William Pickens quote. Retrieved from http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/human-rights Van Heerden, A. (2010, July). Auret van Heerden: Making global labor fair [Video file]. Retrieved from http://www.ted.com/talks/auret_van_heerden_ making_global_labor_fair.html

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