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Essential Question:
How do ethical labor and manufacturing practices dictate what a consumer purchases?

Guiding Questions:
How are employees impacted by labor regulations and enforcement to meet product demands? What are the effects for employees who work in well managed labor forces? What are the effects for employees who work in poorly managed labor forces? What changes can be used to entice employees' increased productivity?

Purpose:
Students will gain an understanding for positive and negative working environments within the concept of global business. Determining what constitutes a good, as well as a poor working environment students will gain knowledge for what impact those public labor reports have on consumer buying habits.

Objectives:
Students will gain an understanding for labor issues. Students will research, recommend, and present changes to working environments.

Guiding Resources
Students will watch online: Collision Course: Modern Labor Struggles This short film highlights many of the current issues facing companies in the modern age.

Follow up activity; Current events in labor and industry Using a computer lab students will work in pairs to research current events that have to deal with labor issues both positive and negative. Examples: Labor audits find poor working conditions at Apple factories

Guiding Activities
Students will create online surveys using survey monkey. The survey should not exceed 10 questions and there should be 3 answers for each question; Positive Effect, Negative Effect, None. Goals: Establish knowledge on ways positive and negative labor reports affect buying habits. Survey Monkey

Group discussion Using an interactive smart-board students will collect all survey data and establish correlation between groups.

Final project Using images from the web students will create a movie using iMovie or Moviemaker to create a public service announcement 30 seconds in length to highlight findings of class' research. Each PSA should include music and a voiceover. Create a movie in iMovie Create a movie in Moviemaker