CONTRACTING AND SUBCONTRACTING; A BRILLIANT MOVE OR A HEADACHE? ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES ESSAY

Contracting, subcontracting or outsourcing all refer to the process of hiring another company or people to do a job for your company. On the surface it seems perfectly reasonable to ask a specialist company to, for example, put up a website for your company or do your accounting but is everything as it seems? What if you outsource jobs to foreign countries (offshoring); what happens then? How does the process impact local economies in, often, developing or underdeveloped countries? How does it impact the economy in the home country? Do your research and find out. Once you have done so write an advantages and disadvantages essay.
Refer to my second blog, The Essay Archive, for sample essays: https://theessayarchive.blogspot.com.tr/  

Familiarize yourself with the topic

1.       “ Advantages and disadvantages of subcontracting work (outsourcing)” http://www.slideshare.net/flame-olga/advantages-and-disadvantages-of-subcontracting-work-outsourcing

2.       “Pros and cons of using a subcontractor to provide staff” http://www.nibusinessinfo.co.uk/content/pros-and-cons-using-contractor-or-subcontractor-provide-staff

Reading material to annotate

1.       “Introduction to outsourcing” http://operationstech.about.com/od/costsavingstrategies/a/OutSrcDefine.htm

2.       “Top 7 outsourcing advantages” http://operationstech.about.com/od/officestaffingandmanagem/a/OutSrcAdvantg.htm

3.       “Advantages and disadvantages of subcontracting” http://smallbusiness.chron.com/advantages-disadvantages-subcontracting-50575.html

4.       “Top 6 outsourcing disadvantages” http://operationstech.about.com/od/outsourcing/tp/OutSrcDisadv.htm

Listen and read

1.       “Outsourcing pros and cons” http://www.buzzle.com/articles/outsourcing-pros-and-cons.html

2.       “9 most popular outsourced jobs” http://www.buzzle.com/articles/9most-popular-outsourced-jobs.html

Watch and make notes

1.       “Outsourcing: good or bad” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qeehDLYa8g

2.       “Is outsourcing profitable?” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NRlY-LF1Y8

3.       “Why outsourcing is bad for business” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7fsEIp2r_8

4.       “Pros and cons of outsourcing” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90a2qHYqMoU

5.       “The world is flat: the other side of outsourcing” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZOmkM-Spdo