Corporate Social Responsibility Foxconn's Hypocrisy Research Paper

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This program Apple needs to create to drive suppliers including Foxconn into compliance include ensuring workers who are sick have the right to stay out of the factory until they are recovered from their illness. As of today at Foxconn, illness and sick time is often subtracted from the checks of workers (Jorgensen, 1615).

3. Apple needs to require all members of the healthcare professional networks supporting production workers to pass screening and achieve at least a 95% score on all testing. In addition, all training programs completed must show overall an 80% success rate for each factory or production center. If this is not achieved, the supplier must file a corrective action strategy immediately with Apple's CSR Department, stating how and when they will bring the score for training effectiveness to 80% or greater. Apple needs to hold suppliers including Foxconn to a series of benchmarks of how well their training programs are progressing and enabling greater promotional opportunities for workers.

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Apple has been instrumental in making Foxconn a global powerhouse in outsourced production (Ojo, et.al.). As a result, Apple has the right to demand evidence that the growth they are in large part responsible for are leading to better lives for the workers who produce their product daily.

4. Apple must create an audit task force that visits suppliers including Foxconn and regularly goes through unannounced inspections of activities to ensure compliance to these requirements. There will also be "pop" inspections of worker's health and welfare that are also unannounced to make sure all aspects of these programs are adhered to. Only by having a comprehensive audit program will Apple be able to get on top of these problems and get them under control. The results of the audits need to be posted for the worldwide Internet audience to review too, which will be a very powerful motivation for these companies to get more efficient at making their CSR promises.....

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