Contemporary Themes AS2 Report: Globalisation, CSR, and Immigration

This report provides an analysis of several contemporary themes relevant to the business environment. It examines the advantages and disadvantages of market diffusion through globalisation, highlighting its impact on national economies, ideological diversification, and cultural values. The report also explores the effectiveness and ineffectiveness of corporate social responsibility (CSR), considering its role in attracting customers and improving the world. Furthermore, it investigates the negative impacts of immigration, particularly on employment and wages, while offering potential solutions. Finally, the report delves into the debate surrounding assisted dying, presenting arguments for and against its legality, focusing on patient rights and potential future treatments. The report references key sources to support its analysis.

Contemporary Themes
AS2 Report

Advantages (125 words) Disadvantages (125 words)
Market diffusion – The Globalisation helps in
flowing the economy at a more impulsive
pace, in which goods and cab be used all
around the world. Globalisation also helps in
trading products across different countries at
reasonable prices.
Great ideological diversification –
Globalisation is a great weapon against
technological, philosophical and scientific and
backwardness. Concept of Globalisation helps
various countries or market to adopt new
technologies and new techniques in trading
products and services.(HirstThompson and
Bromley,2015)
Transmission of cultural values –
Globalisation also makes it possible to spread
various cultures that was earlier not known or
popular. Globalisation helps people different
Threat to national and local economies – it
has been criticized that globalisation is a means
to inflict themselves on minor economies.
Globalisation can be issue for local as well as
national economies.
Universal morality: a danger to religions –
Globalisation can be a danger to various
religions all around the world, during the
trading practices in global market it is
important for the people to understand and
respect the beliefs or cultural values of all
countries and religion.
Neo-colonialism and Neo-imperialism – with
global morality, precepts, economy and ideas a
new form of colonialism and imperialism can
come from different countries that can
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Effective (125 words) Ineffective (125 words)
Many companies are getting engaged in
various social programs or activities in order
to compensate and reduce the negative effects
they have on the larger community. The
Corporate social responsibility helps
companies and organisation to attract more
customers in the market. The corporate social
responsibility is very useful for gaining trust
of people living in a society. The CSR can be
effective for improving the world as
organisations or companies can save the
environment of a society which is responsible
for the well-being of the people in the
world(Tai and Chuang,2014).
Practising Corporate social responsibility is not
an easy task; it requires a lot of planning,
human resources as well as economic
resources. The companies needs to change their
business activities and operations i]in order to
maintain and ensures the corporate social
responsibilities but on the other hand there is no
improvement in the society as people
themselves are not taking any responsibility
with regards to the society they are living in.
The CSR is not much effective in improving
the world as people are different at various
places adopting and following different
cultures, beliefs and social conditions is not
possible for each and every business or
organisations.
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Negative Effects (125 words) Solutions (125 words)
The major negative impact of high levels of
immigration to the UK is the loss of
employment for UK born workers. The
migrated labour reduces the demand of local
workers or labours which highly affect the
employment level for the local people in the
UK(Favell,2016). The high level of
immigration also affect the economy of the
country as the people migrates to UK for
earning money and return to their home
countries which is not contributing to the UK
economy. The other negative effect in the low
wages for local workers due to the migrated
workers
The UK government should restrict number of
local as well as migrated labours in an
organisation or company. This can help the
local workers to get employment. The
immigration should be not so easy and should
be accepted with different policies and rules.
Most of all the salary paid to the employees
should be equal in order to maintain the
demand of the local worker in the UK. Due to
the availability of cheap migrated labours
organisation does not prefer to hire local
workers which can be easily solved by this
equality.
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Become Legal (125 words) Remain Illegal (125 words)
Assisted dying should become legal for the
interest or will of the people. The people
suffering from an untreatable disease should
have a choice to control or end his life. There
are so many diseases which cannot be cured
or treated form any medicine or treatment, at
this time the patient should have a right to end
his or her life in order to get out of the
unbearable pain of the disease or illness. This
can help the patient to stop bearing the pain
which will end up with death. When a person
know that at the end he or she is going to die
they should have a right to choose whether
they want to bear that pain or not. The
assisted dying should become legal for the
interest of the patients and their choices to
bear the pain or not.
The legality of assisted dying is a major
concern for various countries or legal systems.
The people of different countries have different
views for the concept of assisted dying; it is
sometimes called as suicide. The legality of
assisted dying can create a major problem or
issues or different countries or regions in the
world. There are some chances that a person
suffering from a disease can be treated or cured
in future as the medicines or technologies are
improving day by day. If a person chooses to
die he or she loses a chance to live or treat the
disease. In order to stop the people from doing
suicide or ending their life it is better that
assisted dying remains illegal. The patients can
get chance to get cured in the future so it s
important to stop them by choosing assisted
dying(Tomlinson and Stott,2015).
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REFERENCES
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Favell, A., 2016. Philosophies of integration: Immigration and the idea of citizenship
in France and Britain. Springer.
Tai, F.M. and Chuang, S.H., 2014. Corporate social responsibility. Ibusiness, 6(03),
p.117.
Tomlinson, E. and Stott, J., 2015. Assisted dying in dementia: a systematic review of
the international literature on the attitudes of health professionals, patients,
carers and the public, and the factors associated with these. International
journal of geriatric psychiatry. 30(1). pp.10-20.
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