Ethics in Tech Giant Operations

This assignment explores the ethical challenges faced by major technology companies such as Apple, Facebook, and Alphabet (Google). It delves into issues related to supplier responsibility within Apple's supply chain, employee conduct governed by codes of conduct at Facebook and Alphabet, and the ethical implications of social media usage in healthcare, particularly concerning Facebook. The analysis draws upon academic sources and company documents to shed light on these complex ethical dilemmas.

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Table of Contents
Introduction..........................................................................................................................2
Discussion............................................................................................................................2
Survey..............................................................................................................................2
Ethical policy for each company.....................................................................................2
Description of unethical conduction by various organization.........................................2
Google..........................................................................................................................2
Dell..............................................................................................................................2
Apple............................................................................................................................2
Facebook......................................................................................................................2
Tax paid in Australia by these Organization...................................................................2
Summary..............................................................................................................................2
References............................................................................................................................2

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Introduction
Codes of Conduct of Google is designed in such a way that it forces on the fact that it
does not make use of evil into practices. It is designed taking into the fact that every they do is
generally measured by focusing on the ethical standard of business conduction. Google has some
commitment to the highest standard which ultimately help in hiring talented people, creating
better products and attracting various loyal users (Ahmed et al., 2013). Trust and respect among
the various employees and users is considered to be ultimate foundation for the success of
Google. Dell mainly focus on honesty, integrity and highest value of ethical conduct. There are
many kinds of reason behind the ethical conduction at Dell which is like creation of culture value
which is based on various kinds of ethical standards (Tello, 2013). Dell generally address on the
fact which is building of highest value of experience.
In the coming pages of the report an idea has been provided a survey has been done
regarding the fact that the various organization follow the code of conduct policies and proper
rating has been provided related to it. Reports of unethical behaviors has been stated briefly in
the upcoming pages. Certain number of reports has been made with respect to tax which is paid
in Australia by the major organization.
Discussion
Survey
Names Reviews Ratings
Angus Korner Google is the best search
engine of the globe. All that I
can say is that they strictly
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follow their codes of
Conduct.
Jasper Tarczynski Google provides the best
result in minimum time
among all the search engine.
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Michael Mulgrave When google is compared
with the other search engine
like yahoo it can be
concluded they provided the
best result in search in
minimum time. They strictly
follow the codes of conduct
and does not conduct any
kind of misuse with the
personal information of its
users
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Samuel Margarot Apple is the leading
manufacturer of electronic
goods but still they make use
of child labor which generally
hamper the code of conduct
of google.
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Zane Dowling Apple manufacture best
quality of electronic gadgets
but they do not treat
employee fairly which is
considered to be a negative
part on the side of this
organization. Due to this
particular function of this
organization that is Apple
disobey their code of conduct.
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Jacob Buckland Dell is a well organization in
the domain of manufacturing
for electronic goods in the
industry.
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Spencer Muller Facebook is a well-known
social website which is
accessible in various of the
countries of world. It strictly
follows its codes of conduct.
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Timothy Conrick Dell provides best quality of
products to its consumer or
client. They strictly follow
the various kinds of code of
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conduct for its employees.
Marcus Cory Apple manufactures the best
quality of electronic gadgets
but on the contrary it makes
use of child labor and long
hours for shift time which
strictly damage the codes of
conduct of various kinds of
employees.
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Owen Cumming Facebook is the most popular
website in the platform of
social networking.
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Ethical policy for each company
Codes of Conduct of Google generally stresses on the idea it does not put various kinds
of Evil into practices (Alphabet Investor Relations, 2018). Google has some principle which is
considered to be helpful for hiring of large number of people as employees, it also focusses
creating better products for the upcoming generation and creating a medium of attraction for
large number of users (Singh, Iglesias and Batista-Foguet, 2012). This particular organization
works on some basic principles which helps in creating some trust for the employees and
foundation of some kinds of success for this organization.
Dell is a kind of organization which inspires their employees so that they can easily serve
as a medium for the various kinds of action in the different zones of the world. This particular

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organization stresses on the fact of attracting consumers by providing better experience at much
higher level (Sladeand Prinsloo, 2013). This organization is much focused to provide direction of
relationship which provides better quality of products and services which generally comes with
superior value of experience. This particular organization believes that success of an
organization generally lies in the teamwork of various projects in the organization (Clarke and
Boersma, 2017). The success is generally achieved by the process of building a network which
can be used for learn and developing various things.
Apple is well known organization which provides the highest value for an organization
which is used for social and ethical conduction which helps in analyzing various kinds of
responsibility for the employees. Apple generally needs its supplier to work as per the
requirement which strictly follows the codes of conduct (Apple, 2018). The codes generally
analyze the laws which focus on the attention of the various owners who are advancing in the
domain of social responsibility which is ultimately related to various environmental factors. The
contrast generally arises between the standard and legal kind of requirement which ultimately
standardizes the stricter which generally works as per the laws.
Various employee of Facebook and other people who are associated with this
organization generally follow a conduct which is known as Facebook personnel. This code of
conduct is generally expected that it can easily work as per the rules which are considered to be
lawful, honest and have ethics (Clarke and Boersma, 2017). This codes of conduct are helpful in
performing a large number of duties on the behalf of Facebook.
From the above codes of conduct policies Facebook has the best code of policies. Apple
has some codes of policies which is easily readable from the code of conduct of various

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organization (Denecke et al., 2015). Among all the organization which are discussed Google has
the best policies for the code of conduct.
Description of unethical conduction by various organization
Google
Lax advertising content control: Google has been accused for holding liable for the
various kinds of content which generally allows various kinds of add to run on a regular basis on
the various kinds of search engine in Australia (Kim and Douai, 2012). It specifically provides
some kinds of action which ultimately makes the user to think of visiting the site of an
organization rather than directing it totally.
Snipping of contacts: Mocality which is business directory service which is based on
Kenya receives various kinds of calls. In the call some kinds of request were made regarding the
fact of integration of software with the various services which are provided by Google.
Violation of physical privacy: The street view of Google which has led so some kind of
trespassing which generally results from the trespassing on the private property which has arisen
due to image view of street view.
Dell
Dell is recognized as the best organization in terms of ethics which generally operates in
the major kinds of internet organization. Still in some cases it is seen that unethical factors arise
like deny free service even after having registration with the due date (Kosinski et al., 2015).
Dell claimed to provide some kind of free service for the next five years on the contrary it does
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Apple
Apple generally rely on child labor for the production of different kinds of goods. In
some of cases it is seen that the employees are forced to work in bad environmental situation.
Apple makes use of unethical labor practice which is generally used for creating iPhone and
other variety of devices.
Facebook
Few years back that is in the year of 2012, Facebook made an unethical survey on a large
mass of user and due to this fact later on in the coming years an apology was made by second
most powerful executive that is Sheryl Sandberg (McMullen and Apple, 2012). In most of the
cases, it was recorded the provided report does not match with various kinds of conduct policies
of Facebook. So it is necessary for Facebook to take some kinds of necessary steps so that it can
easily obey the various policies which are associated with this organization.
Tax paid in Australia by these Organization
From some of report it was concluded that major internet organization like Google and
Facebook gives around 16.6 and 3.3 million value of dollars as tax to the government of
Australia (Paris et al., 2013). In the past days most of internet organization used to pay tax on the
basis of profit which was earned from the business operating in Australia on the contrary now
they are paying as per the rules.
Summary
From the above pages of the report it is concluded that most of world known organization
have certain number of codes of policies which they generally claim to address to a large extent.
In some of the cases it is seen it is recorded they disobey or breach various codes of policies.

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These organizations need some kind of improvisation of those areas so that they can easily
overcome the weaker portion of their policies. A list of recommendation has been provided to
Apple and some specific sections have been highlighted. A table has been made in the above
pages which generally comprises of survey of people regarding the code of conduction of
policies. Apple is dedicated to provide high standard of social and environmental responsibility
with various kinds of ethical code of conduct. Apple generally requires suppliers to work as per
the need of principles of Apple code of conduct. The codes of apples are generally applied to all
the suppliers of Apple which generally provide goods and services to Apple for the usage of
various kinds of products. Employees of Facebook generally referred to code of conduct which is
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References
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2013. Ethical considerations in using Facebook for health care support: a case study using
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Clarke, T. and Boersma, M., 2017. The governance of global value chains: Unresolved human
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Denecke, K., Bamidis, P., Bond, C., Gabarron, E., Househ, M., Lau, A.Y.S., Mayer, M.A.,
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