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Apple Inc. Human Resource Investment
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Human Resource Investment
Apple Inc. is an American company with its headquarters in Cupertino California. The company specializes in the manufacturing of soft wares IPad smartphones, Macintosh Computers, and personal computers. The company has been in existence since the year 1976 and has expanded globally to date. Apple stores have been set up in almost every country in the world. The company has successfully stood out over its competitors due to its emphasis on the quality of their products. The company has also employed strong human resource policies that have motivated their employees to achieve greater heights and won their loyalty (Ragan, 2006). The purpose of this paper is to look into various ways in which Apple has managed to keep the focus of its human resource using various strategies a such as employee engagement globally talent management, corporate social responsibility, human resource technology, employees law and human rights, emerging trends in human resource human capital challenge and best practice in human resource.
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Apple’s CSR and Marketing Strategies
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Introduction
Founded in 1976 by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, Apple is the world’s largest technology company. The company’s marketing strategies have enabled it to revolutionize various industries. This have improved the company’s brand name. Apple has several corporate social responsibilities initiatives that improve the company’s competitiveness. Some of the most successful products of the company include iPod, iPad, iTunes, and iPhone. Apple outsources its production activities to foreign companies. Therefore, it is vital for the company to ensure that the activities of the suppliers do not tarnish the image of the company. The company’s supplier code of conduct has regulations and standards that the suppliers must adhere to. However, from time to time suppliers engage in unethical activities (Hiscock, 2012).
Apple’s Ethical and Social Responsibilities
Global warming due to environmental degradation is one of the major problems that threatens humanity. Industrial operations are the major activities that lead to environmental degradation. Therefore, it is vital for companies to ensure the sustainability of their operations. Apple is one of the companies that strives to ensure the sustainability of its operations and products. Apple was the first company to stop the production of cathode ray tubes (CRTs) in 2006. CRTs contain approximately 1.4 kg of lead, a highly toxic compound that leads to neurological problems. Manufacture of packaging material leads to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Apple uses very little packaging material in its products. This reduces the environmental impact of the production of the packaging material (Lannuzzi, 2011). Apple also strives to reduce the amount of toxic compounds in its products. Electronic cables contain PVC, whereas displays contain mercury. Apple reduced these toxic compounds in its products. In addition, Apple recycles its products. The company offers customers who return old products for recycle a discount while purchasing a new product. This has reduced the environmental impact of Apple’s products significantly. (Reinhold, 2011).
Apple has various initiatives that strive to improve the health of the less fortunate. The company has collaborated with other companies to form the (Product)Red. (Product)Red is a global fund that raises funds that help in tackling Aids, malaria, and tuberculosis in developing countries. The initiative requires companies to develop products that increase awareness of the diseases. The company should donate a certain proportion of its revenue to the sales of the product to the initiative (Shimp, 2008). Since its enrolment into the initiative, Apple has helped in raising millions of dollars using the (Product)Red iPod Nano and the (Product)Red iPad cover. Thus, ...
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THE COMPANY ETHICAL ISSUES
Student’s Name: John Blair
Institution Affiliation: Rasmussen College
Date : September 16, 2018
INTRODUCTION
The consumer electronics industry is highly changing as various players strive to drive strategies such as presenting customers with cutting edge devices.
More so, there are more and more new entrants that are changing the manner in which traditional players are meeting the needs of the consumers through intensive research and innovative strategies.
Therefore, it is important the organization to value the need of the consumer in effort of maintain the customers and most important, attracting new consumers of the products and services of the organization by providing quality products and services.
However, ethical issues impact negatively the performance of the organization and therefore, addressing ethical issues is important for any business.
ETHICAL EXPECTATION OF THE EMPLOYEES
Employees obligation to aligned with the guidelines and the expectation of the organization.
Training and recruitment
Employee Responsibility
Justice and caring
The employees are the key people contributing to the success of the organization. Therefore, the employees should reflect the moral obligation of the organization by flowing the guideline, policy and the rules to achieve the objectives and the goals of the organization. more so, it is important for the employees to acquire the essential skills required to perform duties to ensure he/she provide quality services and products to the consumers. Employees should be responsible for his/ her duties as well reflecting the sense of caring and justices when providing services to the employees. For instance, the ethical issues which have been coming up are that of companies manufacturing devices with materials which are of low quality. It means that materials of low quality are being used to make the devices. Therefore, the purchases department should supervise the type of materials before ordering and approving them for developing electronics for the company.
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ETHICAL …CONT.
Good moral conduct
Job completion
Honest
When employers perform certain checkups on employees, often completing regular evaluations and other job-performance checks, managers cannot keep all employees under watch at the same time. Therefore, the employees are expected to complete all the task and reflects trustworthy aspect to ensure the company find solution regarding the ethical issues affecting the company.
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TRENDING ISSUES
Partnership with different organization
Globalization
Marketing through different platforms
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The electronics industry is one of the fastest growing sectors of the global economic environment, but it is also one of the least researched businesses in regards to labor practices and worker conditions. The ubiquity of uninterrupted purchasing, using, and discarding of digital technology has inevitably increased demand for electronics manufacturing, which in turn fuels the need for cheaper, faster, and more efficient labor output. Consequently, many of these industries circumvent and violate national labor laws, mainly by outsourcing to developing countries, to maximize and maintain a high rate of production and distribution. In addition, many of these factories are incredibly “dirty” facilities, where workers are often unknowingly exposed to toxic chemicals that are used to make the electronic parts. The following presentation attempts to elucidate many secrets of the international electronics sector, focusing on the violation of human rights and the potential risk posed to human health and safety due to unethical labor practices.
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2. Ethics concern an individual's moral
judgments about right and wrong.
Making the right decisions is imperative,
because it is influenced by the culture of
the company.
The decision to behave ethically is a moral
one; employees must decide what they
think is the right course of action.
Example: behaving ethically creates long-
term profit.
3. attract customers to the firm's products; creating an
increase in sales.
make employees want to stay with the business; creating
a
reduction in labor turnover and therefore increase
productivity
attract more employees wanting to work for the business,
reduce recruitment costs and enable the company to get
the most talented employees
attract investors and keep the company's share price
high, thereby protecting the business from takeover.
4. Foxconn is the owner and CEO of three
Chinese factories :Guanlan, Longhua, and
Chengdu and is also supplier for Apple
products.
Fair Labor Association (FLA) is dedicated to
protecting workers’ rights around the world.”
FLA’s main responsibilities are to ensure the
labor standards of wherever their products are
made are met.
5. Investigation entailed:
the health, safety, fair treatment and
respect of Foxcann employees.
all three factories exceeded both the FLA
code standard of 60 hours per week
including overtime.
Safety treatment ranging from hand
injuries to factory vehicle accidents.
practicing without a compensation
package that protects workers from losing
income caused by reduced overtime.
6. Compensation package that protects
workers from losing income caused by
reduced overtime.
Overtime will be paid fairly as well as work-
related meetings outside of regular working
hours and retroactive pay will be paid to
any worker due to unpaid overtime.
Documenting accidents is another factor
Foxconn will improve on by insuring
supervisors and workers to report all
accidents resulting in an injury.
7. Globalization is the trend of the world's
economies to act as a single
interdependent economy. It can also be
described as the elevated mobility of
people, education, ideas, goods and
money across nationwide boundaries to
make the world more intertwined in a
sense.
8. Pertaining to Apple Inc and Foxconn,
globalization has been very kind, but at the
same time had it negative effects.
When employing overseas, the company must
ensure those companies follow the same rules
as those on the United States territory.
Apple imposes strict rules on its overseas
companies and counterparts than their own
governments, especially in its ethics or human
rights responsibilities.
Staying ahead of their globalization plans
guarantees their continued progress in the
market and its bottom line.
9. This particular article talks about
Foxconn building its own robots to
replace its over 10,000 worker.
The story also relates to China’s
economic growth and the march for
globalization.
If China is successful with this
replacement, there will be a huge gaping
hole on the economic ladder.
10. Delegation can be used with globalization because it touches
on trade, foreign, and direct investments. With trading,
management can assign workers to go and visit other areas of
interest along with foreign interest.
Forms of Delegations
Direct Investment- allowing workers to research all investments
that will directly empress on the company.
Technology- in the rim of allowing employees to voice their
opinion pertaining to systems and databases used daily.
Innovation- it produces the possibility of growth and a new way
of seeing things. Innovation for the Apple Corporation will
enhance the companies’ movement for the future.
Diversity -the essence because it introduces the rim of
differences and togetherness. Diversity as a delegation is a plus
to any company, for that reason: this is a wonderful way of
growth, as well.
11. As technology becomes more prevalent,
globalization is a large consideration in a
company’s success.
Companies outsource goods and services
overseas because of cheaper cost and
faster service.
With factories overseas meeting the supply
and demand requirements of companies
and consumers, many technological
companies have chosen to move their
massive manufacturing operations
overseas.
12. Encourage Foxconn to add state- of –the –art machinery to help workers make apple
products.
Install safety regulations at Foxconn.
Incorporate a union that will protect workers at Foxconn
Give reasonable wages to employees and overtime pay so they can live comfortable
too.
Give breaks at the job and vacation time to employees.
Make the dormitories more comfortable and enjoyable to live in as well as their work
environment.
Stop employing underage workers and stop hiding them when it’s inspection time.
Make Apple consumers feel empathy towards the workers that actually make their
favorite product.
13. Foxconn hide underage teenagers during a Fair Labor Association tour of their
Chinese factory.
Workers were exposed to harmful chemicals while working. One example such as
n-hexane which is used to clean iPhone screens.
A deadly blast at Foxconn's Chengdu factory last May 2012 was no accident but only
occurred due to lack work place safety.
Many Asian contract firms are not protected by federal or state laws like in the United
States.
Students & Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior (SACOM) discovered that
Foxconn did not pay workers for overtime.
Low-paid factory workers have to meet their set targets, producing Apple products
every 30 seconds and if a worker is 20 minutes late their pay gets deducted.
Foxconn workers receive “ hellish work schedules.”
Foxconn’s dormitories are unbearable and Apple is looking to hire 300,000 more
workers to meet demand.
14. The pressures of meeting demands for Apple products and work environment it caused
workers to commit suicide.
Workers rebelled and destroyed guard offices at Foxconn using fire hoses and truned
over cop cars so the factory had to be shut down, and the violence stopped when the
policemen arrived with guns.
Eight employees live in a small cramped dormitory room with one toilet which at times
does not work.
The work environment is not safe for workers and it usually lead to workers losing
their lives to an explosion and committing suicide which is becoming a repeated trend
in Apple’s overseas factories.
Managers will yell at workers to increase production at the Foxconn and these
workers putting together these products by hand without any help from machinery like
in the United States.
Foxconn workers are receiving “hellish work schedules”
17. Foxconn Illegally hired underage
workers.
Age Range of workers: 14-16
China’s legal working age is 16 years
old.
There are 106 workers who are children
and are working at eleven factories to
create Apple products with their own
hands.
18. The company advised that this is not only a violation
of China's labor law, it is also a violation of Foxconn
policy and immediate steps have been taken to
return the interns in question to their educational
institutions.
Employees are forced to work excruciating hours
with little to no breaks and for little pay. Many
regulations are not followed and often times,
employees either contract life threatening diseases
from the chemicals and hours.
The Taiwanese company that runs the factories, is
committing to reducing weekly work time to the legal
Chinese maximum of 49 hours.
19. Starting Salary is $2 an hour.
They reportedly made about $244 a month
and were forced to work overtime if they didn't
complete their projects.
They know that workers sleep in a tiny dorm
(six or eight to a room) for $17 a month.
At the Foxconn Shenzhen plant, the minimum
wage reached 1,800 yuan ($286) to 2,200 yua
n($349) per month, higher than the 900 yuan
($143) three years ago.
20. Investigators found 90 facilities that
deducted wages to punish workers,
prompting Apple to order the
reimbursement of employees.
Mandatory pregnancy testing was found at
34 places of work, while 25 tested for
medical conditions such as hepatitis B. At
four facilities, payroll records were falsified
to hide information from auditors, and at
one, a supplier was found intentionally
dumping waste oil "into the restroom
receptacle
21. The CEO of Foxconn also wants to
change the entrance labor wages from
$2 an hour to $635 by the end of the
Chinese calendar. When Foxconn saw
11 deaths of employees at Foxconn’s
Shenzen factory, jumping from high
buildings in the first few months during
2010 and wanted to resolve this issue
by having pay raises to prevent anyone
else to kill themsleves.