According to text, many steel mills are destroyed by globalization. However, it seems like the Burns Harbor was re-opened and twinned. Twinning started in India. Many engineers and managers from the United States were given jobs (Kinicki & Williams, 2012). Burns Harbor is a steel mill that makes iron ore, coal, and limestone (Kinicki & Williams, 2102). Cons: Based on globalization in the 1980’s, the U. S. lead to bankruptcy. Also, globalization is the blame of imports for outsourcing of imports. It looks like the benchmarking is compared to Belgium back in the days. I believe the cons consist of the exception of moving the mill to lower –wage countries. Wages, safety risks, and other factors seem to be an issue. Pros: The Billon air Indian, runs the largest by production in 20 counties with over 112 steelmaking facilities (Kinicki & Williams, 2012). Mr. Mittal perfected a business model such as buying ran down mills, improve productivity making profit from Slovakia to South Africa, from Ukraine to Trinidad (Kinicki & Williams, 2012). Cons: Mittal laid-off workers, cut cost, twinning two mills for against each other (Kinicki & Williams, 2012). Mills that were not doing as good were ordered to copy the better mills. …show more content…
The steelworkers are doing more work using fewer people than it normally did back in 1974, reductions were from 6,700 workers to 3, 700. Overall, the way steal mils were operated in the U.S. has changed drastically. Globalization has reached an all-time high, utilizing less for more, and creating old ways into new