MGT 220 Organizational Behavior Case Study 1.

MGT 220 Organizational Behavior Case Study 1 Libby Mays Case 4.1: The Human Cost Associated with Our Electronic Gadgets Facts: Foxconn manufactures electronic products for major American, Canadian, Chinese, Finnish and Japanese companies. Notable products manufactured by Foxconn include the BlackBerry, iPad, iPhone 11, iPod,Kindle, Nintendo 3DS, Nokia devices, Xiaomi devices, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Wii U, Xbox 360, Xbox One, and several CPU sockets, including the TR4 CPU socket on some motherboards. Foxxconn’s mission statement is, “To ensure all employees to take active roles in meeting company’s global targets, by decomposing them into departmentally distributed realistic targets/ To ensure a reliable organization and discipline where all employees will be glad to be a part in/ To act continuously on increasing the turnover by considering the principle of “Win-Win”/ To ensure the use of all resources effectively and efficiently/ To create a clean, healthy and safe production and work environment which respects to human and considers the next generations.” Foconn was founded in 1974 by Terry Gou. The company’s key growth strategies: acquire! The company acquired The Sharp Corp. The Sharp purchase and a handful of more recent deals -including an agreement announced for Sharp to buy Toshiba Corp's personal computer business for $36 million - indicates that a push into producing its own branded products is one part of the strategy. In terms of corporate social responsibility, the Chairman, Terry Guo, issued a letter to the company stating, “We have held up our principle of giving back what we have taken from society” in the face of external international trade disputes and internal management changes,