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2. Apple’s Supplier Responsibility information.
Meeting the highest standards for all goods and services
commitment to ensuring a rigorous quality assurance
promoting high standards of social responsibility
understanding Apple’s cultures and expectations among
The Apple Corporation boasts strong relationships with their suppliers whom they have worked together for many years. Apple’s suppliers are faced with pressure to keep on expanding their supplier base in order to accommodate their rapidly growing customer base. Apple’s suppliers are faced with various responsibilities such as; meeting the highest standards for all goods and services, commitment to ensuring a rigorous quality assurance, promoting high standards of social responsibility, understanding Apple’s cultures and expectations among others.

3. Empowering workers Labor
making sure that their employees get their payments in good time
making efforts to start issuing pay slips to their employees according to the set rules and regulation.
offering social insurance to its entire workforce
Offering free physical examinations.
The Apple Corporation has rolled out measures to empower and motivate their employees during labor. This is being achieved by making sure that their employees get their payments in good time and also making efforts to start issuing pay slips to their employees according to the set rules and regulation. The Apple Inc has also undertaken measures to ensure that their facilities are providing benefits as per the requirements of the set laws and regulations. This includes offering social insurance to its entire workforce and free physical examinations. They need to make sure to strengthen the systems they had currently in order to avoid recurrence of their poor working conditions and environment.

4. Human Rights Health eliminating the employment of underage labor
eradicated harmful working conditions in its two facilities
Working hours were also significantly reduced
The Apple Corporation has been faced with violations against human rights however they are trying to correct this and its being done through eliminating the employment of underage labor in their ten facilities; Foxconn being one of them. As for the ethical responsibility Apple has eradicated harmful working conditions in its two facilities and has also gotten rid of bribery cases in one of its facility. To top that, Apple Inc also became a part of the Red Campaign which aimed at fighting against illnesses such as AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis. Working hours were also significantly reduced although are still in excess of legal limits.

5. Safety The Environment Accountability
removal of toxic material from their products
turning to recycling and employing emission of greenhouse gases
Established a training program whereby management personnel are trained on environmental and health and safety issues.
Apple has also undergone tremendous reforms to deal with the environmental issues. This was accomplished by removal of toxic material from their products and turning to recycling and employing emission of greenhouse gases. They also started a training program whereby management personnel are trained on environmental and health and safety issues (Rahim,2013).

6. key ways that Apple’s Progress Report has changed since last year.
working hours were said to have been reduced
Apple began disclosing the names and locations of its suppliers factories
they started a training program intended on educating and creating awareness to their management personnel in its supply chain on matters of environmental and health and safety issues
The Apple Corporation encountered progress in a number of areas, thus their progress report has changed in somewhat way since last year. For instance, in the report, working hours were said to have been reduced, however they still remain in excess of the legal limits. Apple began disclosing the names and locations of its suppliers factories which is rarely done by other major electronics brand providers. In the report, Apple was reported to have started a training program intended on educating and creating awareness to their management personnel in its supply chain on matters of environmental and health and safety issues. In the report, Apple is also said to have verified that all the tantalum smelters in its supply chain are now free from conflict (In Yüksel, and In Idowu,2013).

7. How Apple’s Supplier Code of Conduct helps the organization operate as a socially responsible organization
establishing sound and sustainable procurement procedures.
ensuring the suppliers comply with the same principles as Apple does.
assist Apple monitor the performance of its suppliers
The Apple Corporation is doing all in its capability to ensure that they ensure responsible supply practices. Such practices are intended on establishing sound and sustainable procurement procedures. The supplier code of conduct also helps in ensuring the suppliers comply with the same principles as Apple does. The supplier code of conduct also assist Apple monitor the performance of its suppliers, thus it ensures reliability, safety and continuity of supply of their products throughout the entire world. This supplier code of conduct is also intended on mitigating the Apple Corporation from supply chain interruption risk, financial risks such as insolvency, contractual risk, reputation risk and quality risk. In the end this promotes Apple’s social responsibility role.

8. References
In Yüksel, M. A., & In Idowu, S. O. (2013). Corporate social responsibility in the global business world.
Rahim, M. M. (2013). Legal Regulation of Corporate Social Responsibility: A Meta-Regulation Approach of Law for Raising CSR in a Weak Economy. Berlin, Heidelberg: Imprint: Springer.