Anisimova+Masha+case+study

// Here you can find the interview with the chief accountant of one company in Kazakhstan. This company (TOO “Sovplim”) is engaged in producing of ventilation equipment. //

I’ve certainly heard this term many times (in the media, Internet, on TV), but as for many others for me this definition is modern and unclear in some aspects. Well, that’s a really hard question to answer, in my personal opinion I think that globalization is a process of global economic, cultural and political integration.
 * Have you heard of globalization? What is a globalization? **

The company in which I work does not cooperate with domestic suppliers at all, only with foreign ones. All parts and accessories are foreign. We are working to create ventilation equipment according to European standards and technologies, rather than our own. I think this is the impact of globalization. I can not say that it's bad, because I'm not sure that our country is ready to produce such equipment only on its own. We do not have plants to produce these parts, we don’t have production technologies. We pursue the developed countries, but unfortunately my salary still does not meet European standards.
 * What type of impact of globalization do you feel at your working place? **

Kazakhstan is a country where people speak two languages. Kazakh language is official language; Russian is the language of interethnic communication, which is used on an equal basis with Kazakh. Our president always struggles for Russian people to learn Kazakh language. I think you understand how it’s difficult for person of my age to learn the language. Our director is Russian woman, so in our small company we have only Russian people and most of them are women.
 * Do you feel there is any discrimination on the basis of race, nation, age and sex? **

I do not want to brag and say that our company is an exception. But I am proud that we employ people of all ages. We constantly invite young graduates for training and further employment. One of our experts on ventilation equipment is 68 years, and he is excellent in his field. We have accepted in the company that age is not important, the most important is the ability to work and be an expert in your field.
 * Which gender, age is the most preferable in your company? Why do you think it is like that? **

I believe that the work can be found always, the problem is to find job completely relevant to your diploma speciality.
 * What is your personal attitude to the unemployment? **


 * What do you think about Russia’s entering the WTO? Do you see positive or negative sides from the entering the WTO? **

I think that Russia shouldn’t not join the WTO. The main argument is that Russia´s economy is not ready for WTO. It is structurally deformed. Our country is dominated by few extractive industries ( oil and gas) whose products are in demand on markets of foreign countries, while the processing industries use outdated technologies and are unable to compete with their products. The inevitable dismantling of the tariffs forced upon Russia as a result of its entry into WTO, will lead to an increased influx of foreign-made goods into the Russian markets and a massive crowding out of domestic producers. I think Russia should make a maximally protracted transition period. And this time has to be used to modernize the weaker sectors in order to upgrade their competitiveness and effectiveness.

Certainly the economy has seen a lot of different changes. Nowadays consumers all over the world have a huge range of different goods and services. Whereas previously we could only select from the products of our own production, but today we can buy foreign goods any time and anywhere. With the development of communication people have unrestricted access to information. As a result, we can observe the growth of competition in the consumer market and in the labor market. Nowadays there is such amount of products accumulated in market that there are not so many people for their consumption.
 * Which changes do you observe in economy today? **


 * What do you feel about consuming foreign goods? Do you prefer imported products or domestic ones? **

Most of the people consider that domestic products are of bad quality and look only at the foreign labels. But I think that most of the products of domestic production are cheaper and more natural and in my view if people consume more domestic goods than foreign ones it will help our country to be self dependent and local business to grow that will create more job opportunities. I can’t say that I buy only products that are produced in our country. If I see that the product is of a good quality and cheap, I buy it not concentrating attention on where it is produced


 * Thank you very much for your attention! **

People all over the world become closer than ever before. Goods and services that appear in one country are immediately promoted in the others. All the countries tend to be on the global trend. It is the best way to exist in modern conditions. This is the process of globalization. Our world is different from any society that's ever existed before. The level of technology’s and communication’s development is at the highest level and this blog is a great example of such development. That's a really great benefit from "globalization". Globalization, from an economic point of view, hurts some people in the short term but helps everyone in the long run. In the short run, various people in various countries are harmed by the changes caused by globalization. They might, for example, lose their jobs because the product they made can be imported more cheaply from some other country. However, economic theory holds that even these people will not be hurt in the long term. In the long term, each country will specialize in those goods and services that it is best at producing. When each country does this, all countries are better off because more goods are available more cheaply. The people who initially lost their jobs making one product will get new jobs making whatever sorts of things their country specializes in. Globalization has good and bad sides, and that depends on the countries’ power of accommodation into the globalized system.
 * Conclusion **