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In today’s world there are a lot of issues. One major issue is the hiring of underage workers. To be working underage is very hard. These kids that work underage don’t get a good education, they don’t really eat or sleep, all they do is work around the clock. An underage worker is bad and a huge problem in the world today. Firstly, my first example of underage workers was the Ranza plaza factory burning. This was a eight story building that had a huge fire which burnt down the factory. This burning

Apple Inc. SWOT SWOT Analysis Strengths Powerful Brand Name Innovation Efficient Supply Chain Customer Loyalty Weaknesses Supply Chain Environmental Problems Supply Chain Human Rights Issues Loss of Steve Jobs Opportunities New Revolutionary Product Increase market share Maintain Customer Loyalty Threats Intense Competition Negative Publicity Economic Downturn Discussion Apple Inc. has been dedicated to innovation ever since the company was first formed. Apple's recent breakthroughs

investigation conducted by the Fair Labor Association (FLA) in March 2012. The FLA was commissioned by Apple to investigate allegations of three Chinese factories. A number of serious violations were found but of particular interest was finding out that Foxconn had

miserable shabby places. The work is tedious. “This washing up was a thoroughly odious job—not hard, but boring and silly beyond words,” Orwell writes, “it is dreadful to think that some people spend their whole decades at such occupations(639).” Foxconn is a symbol, an extraordinary specimen of China’s participation in globalization. It is a legend itself. Guarded as an “industrial empire,” it produces a huge amount of GDP, manufacturing prosperity, and even created a class, a society of working

Organizational Social Responsiveness from CSR perspective Introduction This paper will first briefly discuss the CSR theory by reviewing its development history. Focus will then be paid on the study of organizational social responsiveness, which includes two basic processes, namely first monitoring external social demands and expectations and then developing internal social mechanisms (Bartol, 2011). To be more precise, the author would like to study the social responsiveness from a CSR perspective

Role of Export-led Growth in Shenzhen The unparalleled growth of economies in China over the past thirty decades have sparked a lot of interests from economists, with many arguments and explanations attempting to account for the actual dynamics that influenced such growths. Since the 1970s, the Chinese’s economy has a tendency is constantly increasing. The export-led growth gradually exceeded the import, with an annual growth of 17.2 percent in exports and 16.4 percent in import in 2010 (lse.ac.uk)

Apple and CSR Apple Inc. was established in 1976 with the launch of Apple I in April 1976. The creators, Steve Job and Steve Wozniak, transformed the entire consumer interactive experience between the user and the computer by being the pioneers in this field. For two decades, Apple Inc ruled the computer manufacturing frontier for two decades. However, it did face low sales and market share in the 1990s. Steve Jobs had left the firm in the 1980s and returned in 1996 as the Chief Executive Officer

Re-take exam IB55 29 Jan-05-Feb 2013 OPTION 2 This is the mandatory Cover Page to be attached to your exam paper if you choose to work with OPTION2 Dynamic Corporate Social Responsibility: Apple, Inc. Marcello Montrone INTRODUCTION The social psychologist Kurt Lewin (1890-1947), once wrote: “There is nothing as practical as a good theory”. According to this saying we tend to consider theory very important and that it can be helpful to guide us on the correct way. This

transform, and deliver a product or service,’ (Verma and Boyer, 2010). Apple products are known to be at the top end of technological advancement, as one might expect, they involve a lot of components. Apple in California designed the iPhone 4. Foxconn assembles it in

The subject that we are going to talk about covers one of the most problematic issues of the 21st century, which is : how do giant companies, such as Apple, produce their products in underdeveloped countries such as China, where the labour cost is very cheap and easy to manipulate ? B) The definition of Ghost factory a. Definition of Ghost Factory The conditions of production of all of our gadgets is not what we could call a pleasure for the employees. There have been several problems with