Cabiles, Jhon Mark

BSME II

• Globalization is a complex and multifaceted phenomenon that has five main

meanings: economic integration, cultural diffusion, political unification,
technological advancement, and environmental transformation.
• Economic integration involves the free movement of goods, services, capital,
and labor across national borders.
• Cultural diffusion refers to the spread of ideas and values from one culture to
another through trade or migration.
• Political unification describes how nations are increasingly interconnected in
terms of their laws and regulations as well as international organizations such as
the United Nations.
• Technological advancement includes advances in communication technology
which have enabled people around the world to connect with each other more
easily than ever before.
• Environmental transformation encompasses changes in climate patterns due to
human activities such as burning fossil fuels or deforestation.
Yonson, Khrizzy Mae
BSME II

Globalization is commonly understood at the international movements of goods, capital and

labor. The world has always been global. People have always make efforts to move around -
travel, trade, but also to claim territory. Nationalization is often seen as the opposite of
globalisation. Nationalization is a relatively new concept. It is nationalisation that suddenly
separated parts of the globe from others. Hence, one can say that the world is not becoming
more but gradually less global. Of course, some exceptions confirm the rule.

Hence, it is us that have gradually de-globalized a free world by putting up fences and
restrictions. But these have hardly managed to stop international flows. In this light,
globalisation is not only very resilient, but globalization is a fact. Furthermore, I believe that
globalization is driven by desire, nationalisation by fear. By the fear of the vulnerability that
openness brings.

Globalization is a state of mind. An open mindset that when turned into action can capture
major opportunities. These can be found in business, in our own personal discovery, in
enlightenment and enhancement, in social networks of diversity, in knowledge and nature.
Globalization means for me making the best of what the planet and the global population offers.

Globalization also stands for thinking holistically and systemically. Seeing the world as it truly
is: a system of interconnected systems that are interdependent and that influence each other.
Even the smallest thing that happens in one part of the globe can have a significant impact -
positive or negative - on something at the opposite side of the planet, or even the world in its
entirety.

Globalization starts with globalizing our minds to prepare ourselves for dealing with the threats
and opportunities on this globe. Covid-19 has shown that we cannot lock ourselves away. Only
collectively we are able to deal with all the challenges we are facing. Globalization means,
therefore, also understanding the world as a collective, as a social system with vulnerabilities
but also enormous power of creation and problem solving.

Globalization is responsibility. It stands for respecting life and the planet. Respecting each
other’s and the overall conditions of living. Protecting what has been given to us for future
generations. Globalization is core to our humanity and a caring heart. It is understanding us in a
global context and act accordingly.
Globalization is good for some individuals and it is bad for some individuals. The winners of globalization are
• Lower consumer costs because we get items cheaper
• Increase in shipping businesses due to increased traffic.
• Increase in profitability for a number of businesses who need low cost materials
• Increase in cross cultural innovations due to increased learning from other countries
• increase in global knowledge content, resulting in more diversified career fields and niche needs
• More acknowledgement of international issues locally, leading to more efforts on parts of various actors to
improve conditions across a wider spectrum of areas
• More possibilities for increased prosperity in different countries due to increased educational access,
mobility of technology when countries truly adopt win-win mindsets in multilateral cooperation initiative.
• The ones who suffer from globalization are
• Manufacturing businesses that use manpower to make items unless they’re able to find niche markets
• Industry producers now must sell their items on a global market and thus compete against manufacturers
that make items cheaper
• Increased unemployment due to businesses lost by corporations abroad that find cheaper labor
somewhere else
• Organizations that believe their values and belief systems should be the dominant story of everyone
around the story
• With losers in the economic race in a global economy countries in developing nations are at a
disadvantage because of lack of labor, money, and education to compete on the world stage and so
decided to extract natural resources for export at huge environmental costs
• Individuals and small businesses in developing countries and developed countries because large
corporations have more money and thus can better compete in the global economic stage. Money makes
money.
• The environment as we increase production we use more resources and thus increase pollution across all
facets of society such as light pollution, air pollution, decreasing biodiversity, climate change, nutrient
depletion and deforestation. Movement towards a circular economy could potentially mitigate some of
these effects, but this movement needs to be grounded on sustainability based on re-evaluation of our
values, processes, and perspectives (weforum.org)
• Movement towards consumerism in an environment built on buy, buy, buy
• Higher incentives for those focused on businesses to exploit their interactions with others that have less
power to make more money
• Exploitation thus leads to increased local dissent and potential for breeding grounds for terrorism due to
local distress and humanitarian failures to account for the effects of corruption in a systems context of
globalization.
• increased chance of global pandemics to wreck havoc internationally. With globalization people and things
are more fluid, allowing for increased chance of global pandemics to occur. Also, as our environment and
animal habitats get disrupted the chance of viral pandemics increase.
• Decreased ability (not lack of ability) to mount more uniform and powerful global response to big issues
such as climate change due to increased complexity and dispersion of systems, processes, and actors, but
this is not impossible. International treaties banning CFCs leading to ozone recovery is an example.
• More diversity of thought processes that swing between zero sum thinking and win-win positive sum
thinking with humanitarian issues more at stake when the pendulum swings towards zero sum or quasi-
zero sum asymmetrical thinking.
There is also a side of globalization which cannot be clearly defined in terms of good or bad:
• Because of the interconnectedness of economies, there are different types of wars possible beyond
those in person (information, technology, trade, cyber for examples).
• Journalism has a larger reach and multiple viewpoints are possibly reached by more of the public
because of the vast space called the internet. This allows individuals to break barriers in understanding
and change view points or find niche information that continues to support their viewpoint
• As information increases and big data increases more clarity about reality can be gained but also more
ability to manipulate that data to direct it to a particular viewpoint
• Education of children then needs to change to teach kids to think critically and clearly connect claim
evidence reasoning but the ever changing demands on pedagogy also stresses individual actors in the
field
• Due to increased complexity of systems, need for leaders in various fields who can evaluate and create
macro changes through the lenses of micro and macro changes increase. There is increased need to see
simplicity in the mess called global data. Importance of relevance and quality increases as it relates to
data. Importance of mapping diagnosis to activities, outputs, and outcomes increase. Effective
leadership becomes even more important in complex systems.
• Leadership in an age of globalization then requires strategic ability to see the macro in the micro and
the micro in the macro. It requires ability to predict and forecast fluid changes in implications as a
result of status quo changes. As the world becomes more interconnected it becomes important to see
clearly where the interconnectedness exists. Multi variable analysis then requires leaders to weigh
risks and benefits of decisions in a multidimensional way (local vs global impacts, short term vs
midterm vs long term effects).
• Crafting of solutions to world problems hinge on strategic thinking and abilities to see traditional, non-
traditional solutions through creativity, innovative thinking, and strong foundational principles. It
requires thoughtful timing.
• Power to effect change relied previously on less entities and smaller sets of considerations. Power to
effect change now relies on deeper understanding of multiple entities and the values, beliefs, and
wants of each stakeholder. Having mechanisms to develop these understandings provide more process
evidence.
• It becomes increasingly important in this world to see the spectrums of pillars that hold up the
institutions we hold dear.
• Increased complexity of systems then requires educational systems to adapt, where development of
positive character traits (resilience, self-control, clear communication, cultural responsiveness)
becomes important in the backdrop of flexibility, creativity, and analytical skills.
• Increased importance on strategic, clear feedback mechanisms in complex organizations to strengthen
different areas of action.
• Social media platforms become an opportunity platform for niche thoughts and collectivist thoughts.
• Some may say that there are cracks in globalization occurring as a result of geopolitical tensions. Cracks
could potentially happen at fault lines of any system, but it doesn’t mean that over time those cracks
don’t close or open wider. Things change with time and situations are dynamic and fluid.
• So good or bad? Depends on who you talk to, right?
• I understand that many might disagree with me, but I believe if you read the news you see this
happening. It's a hard to swallow, but in this world we must debate these issues.
• This doesn't mean that big corporations are bad. Not all corporations sell things and not all of them operate internationally.
Not all corporations are focused on production. They do many things that are very beneficial to the world.
• Without them there is no google or Amazon to ship goods and innovate. Large companies are not necessarily bad in
themselves; they attract resources and donate to the community because they have money. For example, Chase sponsors
the corporate challenge. Google for example has increased opportunities for children around the world. The Gates
foundation provided numerous resources to classroom teachers.
• In addition, if you think about it successful small business models eventually develop into big corporate business models.
Certain segments of businesses operate differently from others. What I was referring to is one aspect of a particular
subculture in business.