2. ● Understands importance of young people
for future
● Donates millions to support needy
(children, young adults, low-income
families)
● Groups include: Hope for Children; Small
Sharing Big Love; Samsung, UNESCO
education fund project; etc.
Corporation: Social Welfare
(Samsung Hope for Children
Logo)
3. ● 20-year study in Scandinavia (w/ longest
cell phone history) shows cell phones
don't cause cancer
● Lists of phones with 20 highest or lowest
SAR rates have most Samsung phones as
lowest, not highest
Corporation: Social Welfare Cont.
(Girl on
Phone)
4. Downsides of Samsung Social Welfare:
- A recent study shows that
Samsung phones have toxic
substances imbedded in
them.
-Phones contain BFRs,
Brominated Flame
Retardants, and PVCs,
Polyvinyl Chloride, both of
which have been proved
toxic to humans
(PVC Chemical Model)
(Chemical Structure of a Molecule
of Tetrabromobisphenol A, a
Brominated Flame Retardant.)
NGO: Social Welfare
5. ● 36 phones were analyzed for harmful
chemicals, components, and overall health
risks
● 2 Samsung models were found to be of medium
or high concern
NGO: Social Welfare Continued
(The Samsung Propel Model)
(Samsung SCH-U410)
6. Corporation: Culture
Proportion of Women in Workforce
("Creative Organizational Culture")
● Support female employees with children under 12
in Korea
● Working to increase in-house child care facilities
● Employees are allowed to apply for "flexible work
space"
7. Rate of Disabled Employees
(Korea)
("Creative Organizational Culture")
Corporation: Culture Cont.
● Providing an increasing
number of disabled
people job opportunities
● Operating the Stepping
Stone Internship
Program for college
students with disabilities
● Expansion of Disabled
Employment by hiring
experts in disabled
employee recruitment
8. NGO: Culture
● Although phones can create
disconnect between
people, phones allow easy
communication across long
distances
● TVs bring information to
the masses
● Economic activity brought
by Samsung has stimulated
economies and thus has
allowed the cultures
affected to flourish
(According to a New UN Study on How to Cut the
Number of People with Inadequate Sanitation.)
(Picture of a Samsung TV)
9. ● Samsung's high respect for its employees
translates into making health and
comfort a high priority
● Samsung provides comfortable working
areas to increase the productivity of its
employees
● Samsung makes sure to hire employees
that have a high potential and who will
be most beneficial to the company
Corporation: Labor Force
10. NGO: Labor Force
● a non-government organization
with aims to defend workers’
rights in China
● reports regarding the
mistreatment of workers in
Samsung Electronics factories in
China
● violations of human rights
-employment of child
laborers
-abuse of employees
(China Labor Watch)
11. Child Labor
● hired workers under the age of 18 who do
the same work as adults without any special
protection
● child labor results in a generation that lacks
innovation, creativity, and booksmarts
(Samsung-injured-factory-worker)
12. Mistreatment of Employees
● surpassed 100 hours of overtime per month,
with only one day of rest
● physical and verbal abuse while trying to
perform their jobs
● punished by writing self-criticism or getting
fined
● several restrict the age of new workers to
be under 20 years old and will only hire
women
13. Corporation: Environment
● Samsung products used worldwide,
negatively affects environment,
however...
● Partnership w/ Environmental Protection
Agency
● ENERGY STAR
● Reduce energy consumption and not only
meet, but exceed government energy
standards.
14. Amount of Resources Recycled (tons)
● "Take Back and Recycle Program"
● Upward trend!
(Samsung Sustainability Report, 2011)
2009 2010 2011
Europe 187,353 219,948 235,177
Asia 50,414 59,281 55,176
North America 7,024 23,288 35,516
Recycling Amount (tons) 244,791 302,517 325,869
15. ● Monitors waste, pollutant discharge
● What is PlanetFirst?
● Samsung leads as an exceptional example
Corporation:
Environment cont.
16. NGO: Environment (Pre-Changes)
● Until 2004, Samsung was put on
Greenpeace’s “red list”, for products that
contain nasty hazardous chemicals.
● Their products consumed more energy than
necessary, and were low in efficiency
(hazardous waste)
17. NGO: Environment (Post-
Changes)
● Samsung has teamed up with Climate Savers
Computing in order to make its previously
harmful products more environmentally
friendly.
● "Phased out hazardous chemicals"
● In 2010 Samsung launched a ton of new energy
efficient products.
● This gained them recognition as a "greener
electronic" by greenpeace.
(greenpeace logo) (climate savers computing logo)
18. NGO: Environment (How Samsung
Still Needs to Improve)
● Going back on promises to further green
initiative
● Use of PVC in products
● Exaggerating how
environmentally conscious
the company ACTUALLY is.
(PVC)
19. Pictures:
PVC chemical model. Digital image. 3dchem. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 June 2013.
"Creative Organizational Culture." Www.samsung.com. Samsung, 12 Apr. 2012. Web. 11 June 2013.
"PlanetFirst". Http://microsites.westcoast.co.uk/samsungprint/facts.html. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 June 13.
Chemical Structure of a Molecule of Tetrabromobisphenol A, a Brominated Flame Retardant. Digital image. 123rf. N.p., n.d. Web. 14
June 2013.
Picture of a Samsung TV. Digital image. SViudes Blog - Soluciones Para Todo. N.p., 27 Apr. 2010. Web. 14 June 2013.
Samsung Logo. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 June 2013. <http://www.samsungvillage.com/.a/6a0148c7283f78970c0153916ba0bb970b-pi>.
The Samsung Propel Model. Digital image. Brighthand. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 June 2013.
According to a New UN Study on How to Cut the Number of People with Inadequate Sanitation. Digital image. India Has More Cell
Phones than Toilets: UN. IBN Live, 15 Apr. 2010. Web. 13 June 2013.
China Labor Watch. Digital image. Top News, n.d. Web. 14 June 2013.
Samsung-injured-factory-worker. Digital image. Idownload, n.d. Web.
Climate Savers Computing. Digital image. Stocks Profile. N.p., n.d. Web. <http://www.stocks-profile.com/stock-news/the-climate-
savers-computing-initiative-creates-new-workgroup-to-save-5-billion-in-energy-costs>.
Greenpeace. Digital image. Wordpress. N.p., n.d. Web. <http://www.wordpress.youth-leader.org/2010/08/greenpeace-2/>.
Hazardous Waste. Digital image. Wtam1100. N.p., n.d. Web. <http://www.wtam.com/articles/wtam---local-news-122520/cleveland-
company-fined-for-hazardous-waste-11298735/>.
Pvc. Digital image. Iplastics Suppy. N.p., n.d. Web. <http://www.iplasticsupply.com/materials/pvc-poly-vinyl-chloride-sheet-rod/>.
Other
"Chemical Analysis Reveals That New Phones Have Fewer Toxics." Repair Is Noble. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 June 2013. <http://ifixit.
org/3443/>.
"Samsung under Public Eye." The East Asia Gazette. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 June 2013. <http://asia-gazette.com/news/south-korea/79>.
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