This article talks about the Apple’s challenge on labor issues. A new report from the Fair Labor Association indicates that there are a lot of problems of Foxconn‚ one of Apple’s major suppliers. The study found at least 50 issues related to the organization’s code of conduct and Chinese labor law‚ namely the number of hours worked per week by Foxconn workers. The average time worked at each of the three factories in question was more than 60 hours per week during peak production periods. The key ethical
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the workplace environment at Apple ’s Chinese suppliers. An article in The New York Times publicized unsatisfactory worker conditions‚ which included grueling 24-hour shifts‚ overcrowded dorms‚ exposure to toxic chemicals‚ and horrific explosions. Foxconn Technology Group operates many of the plants in question in Chengdu‚ China. When it comes to customers‚ Apple is said to be a bold innovator that leads the industry into new directions and forces others to follow. However‚ when it comes to the management
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19-3Field Incident in Bohai Bay. Ecological Economy. 2013(1). pp155-159. Wartrick‚ L S. Cochran‚ L P. 1985. The Evolution of the Corporate Social Performance Model. Academy of Management Review. 1985‚ Vol‚ 10‚ No. 4‚ pp. 758-769. ‘Steve Jobs says Foxconn in China “not a sweatshop” after worker deaths’‚ The Guardian‚ 2 June 2010‚
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went up and the workers have to pay with their lives. Some workers even think that taking their own lives is the only way that they can escape these miserable work conditions . “Last year a startling 18 Chinese migrant workers attempted suicide at Foxconn production facilities located in Guangdong‚ Jiangsu and Hebei Provinces. Fourteen
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the way we use technology today. The success of Apple has created some challenges that has shed both good and bad light on this billion dollar company. In China we will review some negativity surfacing in the country due to working conditions at Foxconn one of the largest electronic manufacturing companies in the world. In South Korea Apple faces off against Samsung in a major court case concerning patents in which both companies accuse eachother of infringing upon eachothers technology patents
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Apple is a global giant whose success has been built on outsourcing to a range of other organisations located across the world. How can different organisational theory perspectives assist us in acquiring different understandings of Apple‚ its organisational networks and influence? In this essay you must use at least two perspectives to analyse Apple. Success is because of outsourcing. Network and influence meta-therotetical Environmental contingency theory‚ insisutitional theory or stake hodlder
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Organization Citizenship Behavior For Organizational Performance BUS2010 Organizational Behavior Term Members Section 2 Group 5 Date of Submit: 29th April 2013 Date of Presentation: 17th May 2013 CONTENTS PAGE Introduction……………………………………………………………………….…1 Low Organizational Citizenship Behavior for Organizational Performance…….….2 Excessive
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Bureaucracy and modern organization Abstract: The theory of bureaucracy was proposed and published by Marx Weber (1947). Although there are some studies on this perspective were discussed before him‚ those theories did not form as systematic theory. After Weber‚ the issue of bureaucracy becomes a hot topic in the field of social organization. Almost all well-known scholars such as Martin and Henri have published their views on it. Bureaucracy adapted as the traditional organizational model during
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