Abstract:Foxconn has a lot of people trying to commit suicide,this is caused by the company having low-wages,poor living conditions and harsh working conditions.If Foxconn does not fix this problem, there will be more suicides. This report concludes with 3 recommendations that constitute an action plan.They are: Increase worker’s salary Build more accommodation and basic facilities for workers Reduce overtime hours and change design of worker’s equipment 1.Introduction: Foxconn is a Taiwanese firm, and a subsidiary by American electric gizmos, which contained 420,000 workers. The firm uses the low-wages Chinese labour,cramped living conditions and harsh working conditions to manufactures precious …show more content…
Source: SCOPE Workforce Perception and Satisfaction Report Figure 3 shows that after a full day of work, employees have different level of pain.Neck and Back pain were the most painful mention by employees(68.7%),followed by pain in hands and arms(52.2%),feet and legs(44.6%),and eyes(40%). 3.Conclusion: In Foxconn, There are many problems can lead to worker 's suicide. Hourly wages and meals, living conditions, hours of work and harsh working condition. If Foxconn can greatly reduce these problems immediately, the health of employees will be guaranteed. 4.Recommendations: 4.1 The firm should increase worker 's salary to solve this problem. This can be done in several stages: First,the new recruitment should not be lower than the standard wages limited by Chinese law.Furthermore, create a compensation agreement about double wages or triple wages with employees that protect them from losing income when they working overtime.This is a medium-term plan because Foxconn not only needs consider about the payment of appropriate wages of employees but also not less than the minimum wages required by Chinese law.This requires budgeting and forward
, the amount of suicides per year is very high and so far, the treatments for mental health don’t work on all patients. Finally, depression results in a decline of a person’s work ethic and ability to properly work, and it would be
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In the past decade, suicide rates have been on the incline; especially among men. According to the New York Times (2013), “From 1999 to 2010, the suicide rate among Americans ages 35 to 64 rose by nearly 30 percent… The suicid...
A mother finds her 17 year old teenage son hanging from the rafters of their basement. To hear of this occurrence is not rare in society today. Every 90 minutes a teenager in this country commits suicide. Suicide is the third leading cause of death for 15-24 year olds. The National suicide rate has increased 78% between 1952 and 1992. The rate for 15-19 year olds rose from two per 100,000 to 12.9, more than 600 percent. (Special report, Killing the Pain, Rae Coulli)
Individuals in society experience many changes that can make them feel overwhelm or feel accepted by their friends, family members and the rest of society. But there is times when people feel that they do not fit or feel welcome in their social group. Many people face their difficulties and achieve success others are do not have such luck. The individuals that are not lucky finishes their life committing suicide. Suicide is an act of taking one’s own life voluntarily and intentionally that affects not only immediate family and friends but indicates factors in society that are influencing individuals to commit this act. Is important to understand what aspects in society are making individuals to take their own live? And if
In 2010, this was far more than simply a risk as there were a reported 18 attempted suicides, 14 resulting in death (Heffernan, 2013). When the working environment is that appalling, and the notion of working daily in Foxconn causes people to take their own lives, it is blatantly obvious that Apple are abusing their global reach and are solely focused on maximising profits by mistreating and exploiting their employees. There is quite simply no debate that Apple are as far as possible from ethically sound in this regard. W.D. Ross’ take on ethical theory revolves around the deontological aspect of duty, and among his prima facie (morally obligatory) duties is keeping promises (Bowie, 1999), and in this respect Apple have well and truly broken far more than their fair share. Regrettably, Apple’s failure to treat their own employees equally and justly resulted in the loss of many lives, and no amount of profit can justify
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Tesla Motors Inc. is an American public company which is known worldwide because of its experience in designing, manufacturing and also the selling of electric cars and electric components for vehicles. The motor was started back in the year 2003 in San Carlos, California in the United States (Teslamotors.com, 2014). The company had its headquarters in Palo Alto and at the time of its inception, Elon Musk was its chief executive officer (CEO) (Hunger, 2010).
Further investigations revealed that Foxconn had been guilty of unsafe and unfair working environments long before the incidents, which included the employment of extended working hours, discrimination, and military management techniques (Xu & Li, 2013). Due to Foxconn’s sole focus on maintaining businesses relationships by fulfilling Apple’s demand of technical products, their subsequent mistreatment of employees was exacerbated and generated 80-100 hours of forced overtime (Xu & Li, 2013). However, in an attempt to combat the negative publicity, each firm denied responsibility to the incidents, which ultimately added fuel to the media fire (Xu & Li, 2013). Since then, each firm has enacted superior regulations designed to maintain efficiency while recognizing limitations on labor hours and increased spending on compliance audits (Chandler & Werther, 2014). Yet, as Foxconn continues to sustain their global leadership and Apple’s profits remain unaffected, the disadvantages associated with the incidents at Foxconn have not transcended the outcomes. From a profit standpoint, the increase in spending and subsequent alterations of labor methods serve as the biggest disadvantage to each company’s
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Suicide can be defined as an attempt to end one’s own life via inflicting oneself with some sort of injury which can lead to adverse health condition and eventually death of the patient. Various method that are employed at different occasions are Self-hanging, poisoning, gun fire, jumping from height etc. The occurrence of suicide is higher among certain cohort of population such as adolescents, elderlies, professionals, and people suffering from mental disorders. We attempt to cover various mental illnesses that can be associated with increased occurrences of suicide.
Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd which trades as Foxconn Technology group or as the media calls it Foxconn has been in media limelight recently due to labor problems that have surfaced from the organization. Foxconn is a major equipment manufacturer supplier to electronics giants like Blackberry, Apple, Microsoft Xbox, Sony PlayStation and the Nintendo Wii. The internet has several articles and controversies regarding the deplorable worker conditions and cases of suicides by the workers.
Suicide has become a critical, national problem and the extent of this is mind-boggling. Suicides have been proven to be one of the leading causes of death among college students. According to Webters dictionary “suicide is the act killing oneself on purpose”. It derived from the Latin sui, meaning “self”, and caedere, which means “to kill”. But this is just a definition, because an actual suicide holds different meanings to people such as tragic, shocking, a relief, a cry for help, a shame, heroic, the right choice, punishment, revenge, protest, anger, a mistake, desperate, hurtful and many more. But why do people, like college students who have their entire future ahead of them, simply give up hope and turn their heads away from life and commit suicide. There are several causes of suicide, recent incidents of suicide on college campuses, warning signs from a suicidal. I blame the Constitution and the United States law for not taking any hard initiative on the subject of suicide. I also impose the choice of the media, which is reflecting and portraying suicide towards a wrong direction. However most important questions remain: can the growing epidemic of suicide be solved, what are communities doing about it and what can they do to help?
Everyday, there are workers who come home from their jobs with a high amount of health issues. Headaches, aching muscles, exhaustion, and many more health issues have workers wondering why this is happening. All of these symptoms can be linked to stress in the workplace. Job stress has become more of a problem than ever before. Numerous studies show that job stress is the major source of stress for American adults and that it has escalated progressively over the past few decades (“Workplace Stress,” 2004).