The Role Of Human Resource Management In Foxconn

Introduction Human resource management is a very important for every firm. A failure in human resource management can have a direct impact on firm’s performance level. Human resource management has many different levels of issues that need to be handle carefully. They can be mainly separate into five sections, which are Position, Personal, Performance, Payment and Passion. The position of human resource management in a firm can be critical for their development and internal resource management. It is concern about how senior and middle managers should be treated, in order to maintain a good internal working environment. And, what is the scope of work of its human resources department. Some research shows that, human resource department in

Foxconn is a large technology firm originated from Taiwan. It havs1.2 million present employees over 3 continents including Asia, America and Europe. It started its investment in china since 1988. The first location site is in Shen Zhen which is the head quarter of its firm in China. After Shen Zhen, it continually constructed over 30 factories and industrial park in Mainland China. Also, it has partner in worldwide with accredited personals or organizations office. The main reason Foxconn Company decided to construct so many factories and industrial parks in China is the low labor cost in China. It can help them reduce their production cost and operation cost in which help them in higher the profit margin and a more competitive advantage compare with other firms in Taiwan. Also, the encouragement policy of China government at the time motivated the fast development of Foxconn in China. The policy such as tax reduction, and extra regional benefit greatly lower the cost of production of the firm. This set up a potential space for the firm to explicit the labor without the supervising of the labor market. And China government at the time want to attract more foreign investors to settle their company in China, it has been turned a blind eye to many labor explicit case. And the local governments have lack of knowledge of

A 20 year old boy committed suicide in dormitory of factory. It didn 't go in the eye of public since it was handled as an individual incident. And the location of incident is Zheng Zhou. A second degree city which located in the center area of Mainland China. The unemployment rate is high there and many such incidents happen weekly. But it was only the start of continual incident which expose the dark hole of labor explicit of Apple’s largest partner in China. From March of 2010 until the middle of November of 2010, there are total 13 committed suicide incidents happened. And 12 of them are occurred in the first level city, where the head quarter of Foxconn located. This rise the public attention to incidents and cause news reporters in China start to look into the real cause of the incidents. After several investigation by the news reports. It has been report that, the main reason of the incident is the over stressed life style of the labor in the industrial park. Most of labor in Foxconn factories are low educated population in China. Some of them are young people from second, third cities or even more undeveloped regions in China. In order to manage such large number of labor and maintain the daily operation of the factory without being interrupted by workforce strike or labor escape. The senior management of the factory granted an unlimited power to the “security department” of the factory. News reporter recorded some