A combination of quantitative and qualitative methods was used for this research. Starting with interviews here and abroad, then surveys and up to attending a subject related event. We have conducted 8 personal interviews in total and have tried to grasp everyone`s opinion by asking both the people abroad that employ students in Kosovo and students who are employed by people abroad. Further, to make sure we covered everyone`s opinion and heard everyone`s story we also interviewed someone from the government, the head of SME agency to be more specific, then the product developer of Asseco-SEE, former Pronet a successful Kosovo based IT, a person who has the India outsourcing experience and the founder of UniGroup, an NGO that helps Kosovar gain business experience. The survey in the other hand was intended for students in their last year of studies from different universities in Kosovo. With the survey I tried to see how many students are familiar with the term outsourcing, what type of skills the youth of Kosovo has, have they ever worked on an outsourced task or would they be willing to do so if such an opportunity arouse and other similar questions. Lastly, I also attended an event called Bar Camp, which is very similar to TED global events. At Bar Camp usually the speakers are students or graduates who have done something in their career and thus at the event they share their experience with the others who are usually students as well.
An integral part of the project was a survey run throughout Kosovo`s universities. The survey focused on exploring how familiar students are with outsourcing services and
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opportunities, as well as to test what are the main skills they report as marketable for this purpose. The survey (N=...
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...tly, for our research we also attended an event called BarCamp Prishtina, which is an informal conference and as its purpose has the creation of professional, creative and innovative local communities. At this conference after the speakers do their presentation, the audience is encouraged to ask questions and introduce debate topics. At this event I mainly focused on gathering info about the possibilities that students have on learning and gaining experience on opening up and operating a business. In order to learn more about these opportunities after the event we conducted a personal interview with Valmir Mustafa, the founder of UNIGroup, a junior enterprise operating in Kosovo, which focuses on fostering entrepreneurship and giving students practical experience on opening and operating a business. All the questions from the 8 interviews are listed in Appendix II.
But First, Training Foreign Replacements” reveal the importance of the article to an international marketer. Outsourcing and offshoring prove to be the few topics one can learn in this article. An international marketer gains a better understanding of outsourcing and offshoring by recognizing the effects on the company, business, and economy. An important aspect of an international marketer’s career is to assess the market from a global perspective. An international marketer needs to know whether a company is outsourcing it’s employees incase they do not and need to market and appeal to potential employees for the company. An international marketer needs to understand the effects and how the topics outsourcing and offshoring work to gain a better grasp the company or business as a
... bring the anticipated benefits, and in some instances can be a risky proposition (Chin, 2003). Villcocks and Lacity (1998) stated that among the possible disadvantages are the potential loss of control over critical functions such as timeliness and quality of service, difficulty in monitoring vendor performance, difficulty in explaining the business needs to vendors, the potential for loss of company secrets as well as intellectual property, and the high cost of outsourcing contracts. Schools also risk developing a dependency on outside agencies, lowering employee morale, loss of development skills for employees, and having to face the prospect of managing relationships that go wrong (Kakabadse & Kakabadse, 2000; Hayes, 2001). By outsourcing, not only do schools lose some of the personal touch in servicing their employees but their clients as well (Rombel, 2002).
Recently outsourcing has been in the news, especially during political election years. It seems to be a phenomenon that is causing much concern among the population. But exactly how is outsourcing effecting both workers and businesses? And is it as big of a problem as politicians describe?
In many cases outsourcing has proven to be beneficial for businesses. It can help a business’s management by allowing executives to focus on the core structure of the firm rather than every specific element. Production, manufacturing, or additional servic...
Outsourcing emerged on the financial arena during the 1980s and has since then been spreading. Outsourcing production was furthered with the process of globalization which provided a new component leading to the strengthening of resources, skill and labor specializations across the world. The process of outsourcing is using the skill and abilities of a third-party to accommodate society on the foundation of labor. As stated earlier, it was during the 1980s that the process kicked off mainly due to the efforts of corporations when they began to hire labor forces across the world. Even though outsourcing has come out from its developing stages, there are still following effects on the US economy.
The lack of knowledge Americans have on the subject of consumers affecting outsourcing is leading our country to economic stress but if we begin to recognize the issue, the jobs we could potentially save may be our own. We have examined how consumers unintentionally assist the growth of outsourcing and the different ways we as individuals can attribute to a solutions. Also we have explored an attempt the government has taken and how people are trying to further this attempt and gain further understanding so we can work towards a successful solution. Hopefully we can further inform American consumers of this issue and help them to understand how much control they have over outsourcing.
Kibbe, C. (2004, 07 09). Outsourcing: the good, the bad and the inevitable. New Hampshire Business Review, pp. 1A-21A.
Outsourcing has been around for many years. In this paper, I will discuss some of the history of outsourcing, the good things about outsourcing, and the bad things about outsourcing. Outsourcing is important because many companies rely on it in order to get many different products and services to their facility on time and in good shape. Outsourcing is a huge part of the business industry today. Any business can be affected by outsourcing.
Browsing want advertisements, it can be easily found that most of companies are looking for employees who have transferable skills involved in: passions towards working, responsibility, communication skills, team-working skills, etc. The skills which...
Outsourcing, offshoring, and workforce globalization. Those words were voiced late 1999 in Seattle inside and outside the World Trade Organization meeting. Damages in Seattle amounted to $2.5 million, and 500 plus protesters were arrested. 3 In those days, outsourcing was about moving manufacturing jobs to developing countries to take advantage of the lower salary there. The affected blue-collar US workers were acting violently out of anger and frustration since their jobs were taken away. White collar population didn¡¯t voice any opinions about the issue back then, since US had the largest demand for white collar workers.
As industry liaison at the School of EEE at NTU, I facilitate industry partnerships and promote entrepreneurship within the school. In the coming months, we will be launching an entrepreneurship ...
Employability skills and Career readiness have become an integral part of education. Employers are looking for people with a combination of skills such as soft skills, customer service skills and life skills. Not having sufficient employability skill sets, is one of the main reason for many students not getting selected in campus drives. Focus is more on technical knowledge than soft skills in their curriculum. During the course of their education , required level of importance is not given to key qualities like effective communication, leadership qualities, time management skills, self motivation, problem solving skills and creative thinking.
Entrepreneurships can be two ways whether it is by individual intention or entrepreneur taking by family firm. Based on Kuratko (2005) asserted that an entrepreneurship intention can be developed in ad individual since it is related to the individual characteristics of seeking opportunity, taking risk, and giving tendency to push an idea through. Entrepreneurial that become because of their family have a talent across generation, intelligence to success in business and has a dedication (Poutziouris, 2001). Business that from family has a benefit to the owner because there should ...
Entrepreneurship is an important aspect of social, economic and community life. It can be viewed as a critical factor to economic growth as well as a way of addressing unemployment (Nolan, 2003).Entrepreneurs are people who are persistently focused on identifying opportunities, they seek to create something worthwhile while taking into account foreseeable risk and rewards associated with the efforts (Nolan, 2003). Furthermore, entrepreneurs are frequently understood to be individuals who discover market needs and establish new business to meet those identified opportunities. The following assignment will firstly discuss the types of entrepreneurship, secondly it will discuss the reasons people become entrepreneurs, and thirdly it will discuss the importance of entrepreneurship.
First, there was an interview with a successful entrepreneur. Second, there was a talk on entrepreneurship by a guest speaker, Mr. Azmi Ahmad (the CEO of Skali.com) and later, an "elevator speech" by fellow students on various issues related to entrepreneurship. This collective information and some reading on entrepreneurship journals, books and articles have brought to the idea on writing this paper, towards certain perspective, on successful entrepreneurial characteristics.