Business Environment: Labour condition in Foxconn Specific Issus: A startling 13 young workers attempted or committed suicide at the two Foxconn production facilities in southern China between January and May 2010. in NATIONAL factor: We can interpret their acts as protest against a global labor regime that is widely practiced in China. Their defiant deaths demand that society reflect upon the costs of a state-promoted development model that sacrifices dignity for corporate profit in the
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SWOT analysis From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search A SWOT Analysis is a strategic planning tool used to evaluate the Strengths‚ Weaknesses‚ Opportunities‚ and Threats involved in a project or in a business venture or in any other situation of an organization or individual requiring a decision in pursuit of an objective. It involves monitoring the marketing environment internal and external to the organization or individual. The technique is credited to Albert Humphrey
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Apple SWOT analysis 2013 Strengths Weaknesses 1. Customer loyalty 1. High price combined with 2. Incompatibility with expanding closed different OS ecosystem 3. Decreasing market 2. Apple is a leading share innovator in mobile 4. Patent infringements device technology 5. Further changes in 3. Strong financial management performance 6. Defects of new ($10‚000‚000‚000 products cash‚ gross profit 7. Long-term gross
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reasons. Since Apple subcontracted their business to other companies‚ in this case Foxconn in China‚ Foxconn can manage their facility the way they want to‚ to a certain extent. There are many reasons as to why there have been many suicides at these overseas factories. However‚ one major contributing factor to the numerous suicides is the abuse that workers deal with. It has been reported that managers of Foxconn have been known to abuse workers for mistakes or missing deadlines. According to Trompeanaars’
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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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Apple-Foxconn study Submitted to ________________________________________________________ Submitted by ________________________________________________________ University __________________________________________________________ Contents Introduction 3 Problem Regarding Apple supplier- Foxconn 4 Real situations 5 Apple role-Leadership 6 Organization structure 8 Measure for improvement 10 Conclusion 12 References 13 Introduction Apple Inc‚ nowadays is one of well
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More and more companies are investing in China‚ to share the incredible profit generate from the 1.4 trillion people. One of the US based company‚ which it’s going to invest 35% of its stake‚ to a fast growing China private-owned timber flooring company. Like most local Chinese company‚ CSR is not implementing in that company as well as no management working on it. Generally speaking‚ CSR (Corporate Social Responsibilities) is a form of corporate self-regulation integrates into business model‚ in
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Exploitation of Workers in China: Unveiling the Unique Capitalism Adopted in China World Youth Leaders Forum 2012 Social subtheme Yun Yin Chan Department of Philosophy‚ Faculty of Arts The Chinese University of Hong Kong Abstract 2 This paper will explain that the cause
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Introduction In the present age‚ businesses have to intensive analysis themselves to improve shortcomings and get higher profit; SWOT analysis is a good way to choose. This essay will introduce the definition of SWOT analysis and the background of why people use it frequently. After that‚ there will be few examples to proof the opinions of SWOT analysis will help enterprises a lot on proving of their management and strategic planning. The merits and shortcoming when using this process will also
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Administration Professor Concepcion March 17‚ 2015 SWOT Analysis A SWOT analysis is a tool to identify the strengths‚ weaknesses‚ opportunities and threats involved in a business. Strengths mean characteristics of a business in advantage over others‚ while weaknesses are disadvantages relative to others. Opportunities mean elements that a business can exploit for its development‚ while threats are trouble will be face to. SWOT is to carry out the environment analysis and separate information into internal
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