Reduction of Stress Foxconn faces fresh suicide fears as 14th worker dies Foxconn‚ the Chinese maker of Apple’s iPhone‚ is investigating the death of a packaging plant worker‚ following a string of 13 staff suicides at its factories earlier this year. [pic] Father Ma Zishan and sister Ma Liqun mourn the death of Ma Xiangqian outside a Foxconn factory in Longhua. Mr. Xiangqian killed himself in January. 10:27AM BST 06 Aug 2010 Comments The 22-year old woman died on Wednesday after falling
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Part A Executive Summary (one Page) Part B+ Part C + Part D= Max 8 pages Part B (imp) Q. Cisco is committing to produce Viking at a single source Foxconn. Moreover‚ the Viking production mostly takes place within two-hour driving distance of the Hong Kong fulfillment center. “Cisco ran the risk of being overly dependent on a single supplier and whatever financial and operational constraints it had”. What are the potential risk factors in and around Hong Kong? Some risk factors are natural disasters
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Executive Summary This report provides a critical discussion of the ethical problems in the case of Foxconn Technology Group event. the suicides of Foxconn’s workers in 2010. ethical problem for the human resources department in foxconn‚ such as employees would work more than seven days in a row without the required 24 hour break‚ and the company cannot give them enough working conditions. And discuss the ethical issue between stakeholders and the staff‚ like overworked employee doing
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fulfill their parents’ will‚ teachers also have to make sure all of their students receive good marks to meet the school’s decided achievement. This might sound obvious‚ however there are students who are good at math but not good in science‚ who loves study and who don’t. As a result‚ academic dishonesty like cheating exam is likely to be occur frequently these days. My attempt in this paper is to contribute my voice to acknowledge and make people understand more about this fact in education in
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1. Study the networked supply chain concept as implemented by Cisco. What are its strengths and weaknesses? Cisco Systems‚ Inc. is an IT company that specializes in the selling of networking and communication products and services. It is a B2B company where they sell its products primarily to large enterprises and telecommunications service providers‚ but it also markets products designed for small businesses and consumers such as routers‚ modems‚ and home network management software. The products
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CASE STUDY WEEK 2 CISCO 1- How is building a brand in a business-to-business context different from doing so in the consumer market? From reviewing the text and in reading the Cisco case study‚ it seems that business-to-business marketing consists of a more direct approach through very specific channels of distribution. Business-to-business success is centered around more personal relationships between the partner companies. In the Cisco case this was demonstrated by Cisco ’s business to business
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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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Introduction Five U.S. companies in September 2009 joined together and formed the partnership for Lebanon (PFL) and the bequest of then President George Bush. These five companies include: Cisco Systems‚ Intel Corporation‚ Ghafari Inc.‚ Occidental Petroleum‚ and Microsoft. The intent was for these companies to “help in the relief and reconstruction efforts in Lebanon” (Jamali‚ 2011). Soon thereafter‚ these companies concluded that to achieve the objective that five specific issues needed to be
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measures and governance is part of the organization design‚ in Foxconn case‚ Apple has a supplier code of conduct that details standards on labor issues‚ safety protections and other topics to let suppliers supervise the workers‚ which are quite good. But Foxconn not follow these standards to treat the employees‚ so we think Foxconn should give a clearly policy on fairly supervise the works. Secondly‚ Job evaluation system is reflected in the case‚ the statement said employees have opportunities for job
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Case Study Report COMPANY NAME/WEBSITE/INDUSTRY Cisco Systems/ www.Cisco.Com /Telecommunications Industry BACKGROUND/HISTORY Cisco Systems is an industry leader in network technology. Their primary business is technology that is used to enable communication with people all over the world with multiple functions. Whether it be email‚ voice video or general applications these service are transported over Cisco Networks. The current CEO is John Chambers who has held the position since
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