A South Korean Based Company

Globalization Project 2013

● Understands importance of young people for future

● Donates millions to support needy (children, young adults, low-income families)

● Groups include: Hope for Children; Small Sharing Big Love; Samsung, UNESCO education fund project; etc.

Corporation: Social Welfare

(Samsung Hope for Children Logo)

● 20-year study in Scandinavia (w/ longest cell phone history) shows cell phones don't cause cancer

● Lists of phones with 20 highest or lowest SAR rates have most Samsung phones as lowest, not highest

Corporation: Social Welfare Cont.

(Girl on Phone)

Downsides of Samsung Social Welfare:

- A recent study shows that Samsung phones have toxic substances imbedded in them.

-Phones contain BFRs, Brominated Flame Retardants, and PVCs, Polyvinyl Chloride, both of which have been proved toxic to humans

(PVC Chemical Model)

(Chemical Structure of a Molecule of Tetrabromobisphenol A, a Brominated Flame Retardant.)

NGO: Social Welfare

● 36 phones were analyzed for harmful chemicals, components, and overall health risks

● 2 Samsung models were found to be of medium or high concern

NGO: Social Welfare Continued

(The Samsung Propel Model)

(Samsung SCH-U410)

Corporation: Culture

Proportion of Women in Workforce

("Creative Organizational Culture")

● Support female employees with children under 12 in Korea

● Working to increase in-house child care facilities● Employees are allowed to apply for "flexible work

space"

Rate of Disabled Employees (Korea)

("Creative Organizational Culture")

Corporation: Culture Cont.

● Providing an increasing number of disabled people job opportunities

● Operating the Stepping Stone Internship Program for college students with disabilities

● Expansion of Disabled Employment by hiring experts in disabled employee recruitment

NGO: Culture

● Although phones can create disconnect between people, phones allow easy communication across long distances

● TVs bring information to the masses

● Economic activity brought by Samsung has stimulated economies and thus has allowed the cultures affected to flourish

(According to a New UN Study on How to Cut the Number of People with Inadequate Sanitation.)

(Picture of a Samsung TV)

● Samsung's high respect for its employees translates into making health and comfort a high priority

● Samsung provides comfortable working areas to increase the productivity of its employees

● Samsung makes sure to hire employees that have a high potential and who will be most beneficial to the company

Corporation: Labor Force

NGO: Labor Force● a non-government organization

with aims to defend workers’ rights in China

● reports regarding the mistreatment of workers in Samsung Electronics factories in China

● violations of human rights-employment of child laborers -abuse of employees

(China Labor Watch)

Child Labor● hired workers under the age of 18 who do

the same work as adults without any special protection

● child labor results in a generation that lacks innovation, creativity, and booksmarts

(Samsung-injured-factory-worker)

Mistreatment of Employees● surpassed 100 hours of overtime per month,

with only one day of rest ● physical and verbal abuse while trying to

perform their jobs● punished by writing self-criticism or getting

fined● several restrict the age of new workers to

be under 20 years old and will only hire women

Corporation: Environment

● Samsung products used worldwide, negatively affects environment, however...

● Partnership w/ Environmental Protection Agency

● ENERGY STAR● Reduce energy consumption and not only

meet, but exceed government energy standards.

Amount of Resources Recycled (tons)

● "Take Back and Recycle Program"● Upward trend! (Samsung Sustainability Report, 2011)

2009 2010 2011

Europe 187,353 219,948 235,177

Asia 50,414 59,281 55,176

North America 7,024 23,288 35,516

Recycling Amount (tons) 244,791 302,517 325,869

● Monitors waste, pollutant discharge● What is PlanetFirst?● Samsung leads as an exceptional example

Corporation: Environment cont.

NGO: Environment (Pre-Changes)

● Until 2004, Samsung was put on Greenpeace’s “red list”, for products that contain nasty hazardous chemicals.

● Their products consumed more energy than necessary, and were low in efficiency

(hazardous waste)

NGO: Environment (Post-Changes)

● Samsung has teamed up with Climate Savers Computing in order to make its previously harmful products more environmentally friendly.

● "Phased out hazardous chemicals"● In 2010 Samsung launched a ton of new energy

efficient products.● This gained them recognition as a "greener

electronic" by greenpeace.

(greenpeace logo) (climate savers computing logo)

NGO: Environment (How Samsung Still Needs to Improve)

● Going back on promises to further green initiative

● Use of PVC in products

● Exaggerating how environmentally conscious the company ACTUALLY is.

(PVC)

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