Ronald E. Stewart MNGT 5590
Dr. Cristina Echeverry
March 29, 2018
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Ronald E. Stewart
This report analyzes the perceived negative organizational culture of the Foxconn Technology Group, the largest consumer electronics manufacturing corporation in the world with almost 1.2 million employees on multiple campuses ("Foxconn 2016 Social and Environmental …show more content…
However, instead of helping the situation, this may foster a negative perception as described in the Golem Effect theory and develop a prejudice against leadership even though the company claims a safety, healthy, and employee nurturing workplace in the Social and Environmental Responsibility report. A more useful plan may be instituting an effective attribution process into the new employee onboarding process. However, adding events into the onboarding process would affect the rate at which the new employee is a part of the production process. This would come at a great cost to the product demand that comes from their major customers such as: Apple, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, and Motorola (Konopaske, Ivancevich & Matteson, 2018); according to the 2016 Foxconn technology co. LTD balance sheet, the losses in production could be in excess of $3 billion (Marketwatch.com, …show more content…
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