A Case Study of a Taiwanese Factory in South Africa

question 58

Multiple Choice

A case study of a Taiwanese factory in South Africa found that the main reason for South African workers' resentment against the Taiwanese managers is __________.

• A)the exploitative wages
• B)the failure to provide a lunchroom where management and workers ate together
• C)the Taiwanese way of organizing production based on Taiwanese hierarchical kinship structures
• D)the excessively long work hours without a break
• E)that the Taiwanese did not hire cultural anthropologists to study the workers' attitudes and values

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