Sunday, June 17, 2012

“Globalization Drives Changes for U.S. Automakers"

The payment of healthcare from U.S businesses will always be an important factor and benefit for U.S. employees. On the other hand, it could also negatively affect the comparative advantage of companies when it comes to increase the cost of each vehicle. Meaning that this could put ahead foreign companies in their market share.

In this case, U.S. car manufacture has a disadvantage due to the huge amount of money they are investing in healthcare, rather than investing it in other methods that can give the company the opportunity to grow and be more innovated. They should have a balance between labor costs and pensions they offer to their employees in order to maintain a competitive cost to their customers.
It’s certainly obvious that not only healthcare and high wages affected negatively the comparative advantage of U.S car manufacture. There are a variety of factors that the Big Three are not applying in other to compete with foreign companies such as: innovation on their processes to motivate employees at lower cost, diversification of their products and internal methods in order to be more productive.

We live in a highly competitive age, where everything is about who is the best, who is first, and where each day companies create new policies to increase their market share and revenue. Competition between nations will develop over the time and new policies will be improve and others will be enacted.

To conclude, companies should take advantage of new technologies and be creative in order to maintain their position in todays globalized world.



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