Case Study: Ford Motor Company
CASE STUDY: FORD MOTOR COMPANY
Leadership and Organizational Effectiveness of Ford Motor Company
“This is everything.
It’s heritage.
It’s children’s future.
It’s everything tied up into one.
Failure is not an option.”
- Jr.
CEO, Ford Motor Company
The global marketplace is faced with different challenges that affect its overall management and operations. Various pressures on the internal and external conditions such as the unstable world and local economies, the workforce, the customers, and even the management itself risk the success or failure of the organization. In implementing effective management of a business, regardless of what kind of management strategy is used, the person who is foremost in all the transactions of the business must be able to deal with all the potential hazards.
Ford Motor Company is well known as the #1 manufacturing experts in the western world. During Ford's early years, the company was virtually indistinguishable from its founder. "Fordism," as it came to be known--a system of mass production which combined the principles of "scientific management" with new manufacturing techniques, such as the assembly line--created more than fantastic profits for his company: it literally revolutionized industry on a global scale within twenty years of its implementation ( 2002). This paper aims to discuss the leadership implemented in Ford Motor Company under the administration of , Jr. and specifically, it sought to answer the following questions:
a. what are the problems he inherits as the CEO of Ford?
b. What are the adaptive challenges he recognises?
c. How does he go about projecting the voice of leadership?
In order to point out the answers to the aforementioned queries, there is a need to provide brief discussion of the concept of leadership and its styles that will help to the entire analysis of the case. The integration of the concepts and the facts from the primary source will present a comprehensive
Leadership and Organizational Effectiveness of Ford Motor Company
“This is everything.
It’s heritage.
It’s children’s future.
It’s everything tied up into one.
Failure is not an option.”
- Jr.
CEO, Ford Motor Company
The global marketplace is faced with different challenges that affect its overall management and operations. Various pressures on the internal and external conditions such as the unstable world and local economies, the workforce, the customers, and even the management itself risk the success or failure of the organization. In implementing effective management of a business, regardless of what kind of management strategy is used, the person who is foremost in all the transactions of the business must be able to deal with all the potential hazards.
Ford Motor Company is well known as the #1 manufacturing experts in the western world. During Ford's early years, the company was virtually indistinguishable from its founder. "Fordism," as it came to be known--a system of mass production which combined the principles of "scientific management" with new manufacturing techniques, such as the assembly line--created more than fantastic profits for his company: it literally revolutionized industry on a global scale within twenty years of its implementation ( 2002). This paper aims to discuss the leadership implemented in Ford Motor Company under the administration of , Jr. and specifically, it sought to answer the following questions:
a. what are the problems he inherits as the CEO of Ford?
b. What are the adaptive challenges he recognises?
c. How does he go about projecting the voice of leadership?
In order to point out the answers to the aforementioned queries, there is a need to provide brief discussion of the concept of leadership and its styles that will help to the entire analysis of the case. The integration of the concepts and the facts from the primary source will present a comprehensive