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Assignment: Global Worker Human Rights

Using Wuerth's article from this unit's readings as well as Chapters 12-17 in your Managing Cultural Differences text, respond to the following:

• What does the author of the article assert regarding potential human rights issues? Do you agree? Why or why not?

• What are the top concerns we should be mindful of regarding workers' rights in our country?

• How do the top human rights concerns of another country you've selected compare to those in our country?

• If you worked for a company considering expanding to your selected country, would you support the expansion? Why or why not? Be sure to consider the potential public relations impact on your organization and how that could impact human resources in your organization (for example, its image, employee morale, or recruiting).

Discussion: Human Rights Scenario

This discussion is based on the following scenario:

You are a HR professional visiting one of your corporation's three manufacturing plants in Mexico. You have been to Hermosillo, Matamoros, and Nogales. You had a great visit and all aspects of the operation are going well. The over 800 employees are happy, based on a survey you personally deployed and collected. Safety is being respected and where corrections were needed, they were done immediately. The three managers and their assistants are well-trained and doing what is right in all areas, except some very small issues which will be addressed in your official report. You are leaving the last factory in Nogales when you see a bus of what looks like school children leaving the facility across the street. The children look like 4th and 5th graders. You're able to tell because before you went to Capella University, you had been a paraprofessional educator working at a local elementary school. You ask the senior manager, Mr. Vasquez, what the school children are doing in the factory and he says they work there after school. They only go to school for a few hours a day. As it turns out, the facility across the street is a major provider of component parts to boats your company builds at the three factories.

For this discussion, respond to the following:

• What human rights issues are involved in this scenario?

• What exactly should you do in this situation with respect to reporting or not reporting what you've discovered to your organizational leaders?

• Is there a problem with the children working for a supplier? After all, it's not your company. Why or why not?

• What media and/or moral concerns do you see in this scenario?

• Is it your business as a client to stipulate who another company hires? Why or why not?

Artice: International Law in the Post-Human Rights Era (By Ingrid Wuerth)