Your answers must be based on the reading. Include both the questions and answers, type all answers in complete sentences, and number your work. ?Submit in the text box below or submit as a word or PDF document. How the Consumer Movement Affects Business The Internet has put consumers around the world in contact with one another. People are taking an active role in speaking out for good business practices and against businesses and products that are harmful to consumers, the environment, and the world. Consumers want to buy from businesses that are socially responsible. These businesses often succeed. Thematic Project Assignment In this project you will design and create a bulletin board display that describes how the consumer movement affects business. Step 1: Brainstorm Skills You Need to Complete This Activity Your success in business will depend on your skills. Preview the activity, then brainstorm a list of the skills you will need to use to complete the activity and describe how you will use them. Skills you might use include: • Academic Skills reading, writing, math, and science skills • Basic Skills speaking, listening, thinking, problem-solving, and interpersonal skills • Technology Skills word processing, keyboarding, database, spreadsheet Skills Preview: Click here to view a graphic organizer you can use to brainstorm the skills you will use to complete the project. Step 2: Choose a Business and a Career That Interest You Make a list of ousinesses that interest your team. Add to the list any careers within this business that interest your team. Then think about how the consumer movement affects these businesses. Think about how you are affected as a consumer and also how you might Leave a message your future career, Step 2: Choose a Business and a Career That Interest You Make a list of businesses that interest your team. Add to the list any careers within this business that interest your team. Then think about how the consumer movement affects these businesses. Think about how you are affected as a consumer and also how you might be affected in your future career. Step 3: Build Background Knowledge Preview information on how consumers affect business. i's Consumers Affecting How Business Is Conducted C when he comes to what they like earned do not like, what works and what does not work. They are coming together and speak- ing out in loud group voices. Businesses better listen. With the Internet connecting the world, someone in Idaho might know about a fuel-efficient vehicle being engi- neered in Japan almost as quickly as it could be in Detroit. Consumers are speaking out where it hurts businesses the most—in the marketplace. This is what consumers are saying: Build us better, more efficient products. Be more earth-friendly and socially responsible. Listen or we will take our business elsewhere. Elsewhere these days includes the whole world. Step 4: Connect with Your Community ndividually interview two adults in your community. Interview one adult who is active in a consumer movement or has taken action as a consumer. Interview another adult to learn how consumers affect the person's job or business. Bring your fi ndings about these people's experiences to the team to use as stories for the bulletin board. Step 5: Research Business Trends Use the Internet resources to research technology's effects on global business. Use the project research checklist as a guide to your research. Keep records of your sources of information. Step 6: Develop a Report Use computer graphics, photographs, and other art to create a bulletin board that includes all of the information described in the project checklist. How the Consumer Movement Affects Business ✓ Decide on one type of consumer movement, such as effi cient fuel for vehicles or socially responsible companies. ✓ Researchers can use library and Internet sources to find information on consumer movements and their effects on business. Look for information on how the businesses are changing because consumers are becoming active. ✓ Writers should write short paragraphs of information and picture captions. ✓ Editors should edit and proofread the information and captions. ✓ Artists should design and arrange the bulletin board. How the Consumer Movement Affects Business ✓ Decide on one type of consumer movement, such as effi cient fuel for vehicles or socially responsible companies. ✓ Researchers can use library and Internet sources to find information on consumer movements and their effects on business. Look for information on how the businesses are changing because consumers are becoming active. ✓ Writers should write short paragraphs of information and picture captions. ✓ Editors should edit and proofread the information and captions. ✓ Artists should design and arrange the bulletin board. Self Connections ✓ Describe the results of your interview with an adult family member. ✓ Describe how technology, globalization, and diversity have affected the business and career in which you are interested. ✓ Explain what the investigation and its results mean to you.
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