from Korea and Taiwan‚ chipsets are from Europe and the rare metals are found from Africa and Asia. After the materials have been acquired they are sent to China mainly Foxconn City where they are manufactured. (Duhigg & Bradsher‚ 2012). The unscratchable glass screen was perfected by Apple engineers in Kentucky and sent to Foxconn City where they are assembled.(Duhigg & Bradsher‚ 2012). While 90 percent of the parts needed are found elsewhere the software and the marketing of that software in the
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Introduction Foxconn Technology Group was founded in 1974‚ under China’s Taiwan’s Hon Hai Group. A motherboard shipment currently is the second highest in the world. Foxconn Technology Group is the world’s 3C (computers‚ communications‚ consumer electronics) in the largest foundry field with the fastest growing and the highest rated international group evaluation of the U.S. Fortune magazine named the world’s best reputation for the benchmark 15-strong e-business and the company becomes the
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1. What accounted for the growth of Foxconn? Technically a subsidiary of Hon Hai Precision Industry Co.‚ Ltd.‚ Foxconn opened its first mainland Chinese plant in 1988‚ and now operates 13 factories in nine Chinese cities and a growing constellation of factories in nine foreign countries. Founded by Taiwanese entrepreneur Terry Gou with $7‚500 he borrowed from his mother Hon Hai went public on the Taiwan stock exchange in 1991. Within a year of its starting to manufacture
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The Human Cost Associated with Electronic Gadgets or Stress? While thinking about the initial impressions one formed of Foxconn as one read the case. To what degree did stereotyping influence ones’ thoughts‚ how did the additional information about the firm change ones’ initial impression and while the manual labor of assembling electronics is challenging for Foxconn employees‚ the workers may also face emotional burdens of being away from family and isolation from the outside world. What were some
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Ethical or unethical behavior in the workplace of Apple as a company has been up and down with some controversy. Apples ethics have been noted as being unethical in the past and recently Apple has been accused of overworking employees long hours and having dangerous working conditions in its suppliers in China. Recent ethical behavior of Apple was the touring and visiting of Foxconn factories in China to monitor the work conditions there. On the unethical side poor working conditions there have gone
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What Is Ethics? Ethics is the part of philosophy that deals with good and evil. Ethics tries to answer questions like: • What actions are good? What actions are evil? • How can we tell the difference? • Are good and evil the same for everyone? • How should we make hard decisions that might help or hurt other people? The Four main studies of ethics are; • Meta-ethics‚ about the theoretical meaning of moral propositions and ethical opinions; • Normative ethics‚ an abstract set of principles
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SCHOOL OF LAW Year 2013-14 Term 1 LAW001 ETHICS AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY Instructor: David N. Smith Practice Professor‚ School of Law Tel: Email: Office: 6828 0788 davidsmith@smu.edu.sg School of Law‚ Room 4044‚ Level 4 COURSE DESCRIPTION Issues of ethics and social responsibility arise in all professions and all aspects of life. The failure to anticipate‚ recognize and deal effectively with these issues can have serious implications for individuals‚ companies‚ governments
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Suicides at Foxconn (A causal analysis) MBAMGT-665 International & Cross-Cultural Management Fall 2010 Contents Introduction 2 Wages and Working Hours 2 Workers were kept uninformed about wage increase plan 2 Basic wage is just slightly more than minimum wage and far below living wage 2 Excessive overtime 2 Deduction of overtime premium 2 Frequent change of work shifts 2 Management 2 Punishments 2 Extensive work pressure 2 Reward system 2 Trade Unions 2 Health and Safety 2 Student
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Solutions for Communication Problems in the Foxconn Suicides Prepared for: Gou Taiming‚ President Foxconn Prepared by: Prakash Krishnamurthy Table of Contents Introduction…………………………………………………………………………………….3 Company Background…………………………………………………………………………3 Identifying the Problem - Facts of the Case………………………………………………….4 Analysis of the Communication Problem…………………………………………………….6 Recommended Solution………………………………………………………………………..8 Appendix………………………………………………………………………………………
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