Culture Diversity and Working Conditions in Foxconn Factories

This report analyzes the cultural diversity issues within the Foxconn factory, focusing on the differences between American and Chinese cultures. It explores how cross-cultural communication, working environments, and language barriers impact employee safety and overall operations. The report highlights concerns regarding overtime practices, low wages, and employee retention. It examines the impact of these factors on the company's policies, productivity, and image. The conclusion emphasizes the need for improved working conditions, flexible environments, and better employee facilities to mitigate the negative effects of cultural differences and ensure employee well-being. The report uses various journals and books to support its findings.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
1.Factors that influenced the culture diversity in between America and china in the Foxconn
factory.........................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................2
REFERENCE...................................................................................................................................3

INTRODUCTION
In this case the several issues has been raised in the Foxconn factory which is located in
the china. Due to this the culture diversity in between America and china has been evolved. Also
the working condition in the Foxconn factories are not suitable for the workers. Most important
issues is the employee safety in the factories (Bresciani, da Cruz, I.B.M and González-Gallego,
2015). The government intervention makes some impact on the factories at certain level. In this
present report many obstacles have been found on the basis of which corrective action is taken
The employees of the firm are unable to find flexible working environment. The major problem
is that. The workers of foxconn are doing overtime with low scale rate. This kind of situation
hampering the growth of firm.
1.Factors that influenced the culture diversity in between America and china in the Foxconn
factory
It is influence with the following factors which is described in following manner are as
 Cross culture: As compared to American culture with chines culture it has major
difference. In the china it employee have the privacy while in america privacy is cant be
the major factor you speak what you want to speak to your subordinates (inharoy and
et.al., 2015). Cross culture in the foxconn factory has emerged and it impacts on the both
the employees has to face.
 Communication: in the china communication with other worker is not important as in the
foxconn factory it can be the issues regrading the safety while in America communication
is formal in which information can be transferred during the working hours. In foxconn
group of company there was communication problem with employees, due to this their
working was hampered in badly manner.
 Working environment: American have formal working condition as they can do work
freely while in the china it is not possible for any worker to do work freely as they have
to follow the rules and regulations (Hirzel and et.al., 2013). Due to this some issues
regarding suicide of the worker has arises in the china in the foxconn factories.
 Language: For the American they have their native language is English but for the china
they chines which is complicated for the outsider worker. These has raised in the case
that in the factory some employees are not able to work on their language which leads to
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make huge communication barrier (Field, 2013). Because in any language the emotion
and feelings are associated.
 Overtime- In foxconn group of company who works as manufacturing of Apple products.
They do overtime on the low scale rate. That was the biggest issue in that firm. They are
not getting any other extra facility. The weekly time schedule is like 49 hours. They do
work for 60 hours in the weak. Due to this there is problem in relation to employee
retention.
The impact of such on working of company are as-
1. There can be issue related to working environment of company.
2. The policy and legislation of company are impacting in large manner.
3. The productivity and profitability of company is falling down say to day.
4. There can be loss in image of business enterprise which work in manner to bring adverse
condition to firm.
5. The worker of company will get demotivated and it can lead to employee retention to
firm (Bresciani, da Cruz, I.B.M and González-Gallego, 2015).
6. Due to this there can be barrier to effective communication in firm.
7. The culture of company can diversely effect this kind of activity.
8. The workers should provide flexible working environment. With the help of this they
should allow some other facilities like rest room, proper meals and safety appliances so
that they can work in more efficient manner.
9. Due to this kind of issues in business enterprise, the growth of the firm get hampered in
badly manner.
CONCLUSION
From the above report it has been concluded that due to this the culture diversity in
between America and china has been evolved. Also the working condition in the Foxconn
factories are not suitable for the workers. Most important issues is the employee safety in the
factories. The culture of company can diversely effect this kind of activity.
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REFERENCE
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Field, A., 2013. Discovering statistics using IBM SPSS statistics. Sage.
Hirzel, M and et.al., 2013. IBM streams processing language: Analyzing big data in motion. IBM
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inharoy, B and et.al., 2015. IBM POWER8 processor core microarchitecture. IBM Journal of
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Miller, R. ed., 2013. Complexity of Computer Computations: Proceedings of a symposium on the
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