The World 's Leading Consumer Company For Automotive Products And Services

The Ford Motor Company is an automotive manufacturer that was started in the late 1900’s. Many people have run the Ford Motor Company but the founder Henry Ford, he was unlike any other. Henry Ford’s imagination was unlike any other and his brain could come up with some of the greatest things. Until the day Mr. Ford died he created and succeeded in the automotive world and never failed to give to America.

Team: One for all and all for one. Working together to be the provider of choice.

A situation arose, Ford had zero knowledge about running a business. As a result the new company failed, along with his second company.

Currently the company is the leading car manufacturer in Europe, but their goal is to impact an international market.

Fortifying its core business by building on its global leadership in trucks, vans, commercial and performance vehicles and growing in global utility vehicles.

In 1901, Henry Ford designed a 26-horsepower racecar to compete in the race. He was going up against the top racecar driver, Alexander Winton. Alexander Winton was driving a 70-horsepower racecar, which has 44 more horsepower than Ford’s vehicle. They raced 10 laps around the one-mile track of the Detroit Driving Club. He won the race and it lead to his second short-lived attempt at auto manufacture,

I work for Ford Credit, which is a subsidiary of Ford Motor Company. Our company’s mission says “At Ford, we go further to make our cars better, our employees happier and our planet a better place to be a part of”. This is our mission statement. Ford continues our vision with the statement that “People working together as a lean, global enterprise to make people’s lives better through automotive and mobility leadership”. Both of these are the fundamental approaches to what Ford Motor and Ford Credit try to achieve.

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The Auto Company of America, Inc. (ACA) is exposed to a variety of risks but most outstanding is what has been defined as man-made risk.

Ford’s mission statement is derived from a simple phrase “One Ford: One team, one plan, one goal.” With this mission statement Ford establishes and expectation of employees working as one to accomplish the organization’s goals and vision to become the world’s leading automotive company. Ford divides these goals into five categories: Mobility, climate change and the environment, product quality and safety, supply chain, and people. Mobility represents Ford’s vision of creating automobiles that use technology to communicate to each other to revolutionize transportation. Ford’s goals for climate change and the environment are being reached by manufacturing vehicles that reduce CO2 emissions, use lower-carbon fuels, electrification, biofuels and gaseous fuels, and increased use of recyclable materials. Ford also has the goal to educate drivers on fuel efficiency. Product quality and safety goals for Ford are to utilize technology to ensure the highest quality and safety of all vehicles manufactured as well as for the drivers. Ford uses their goals in supply chain to enforce their human rights and working conditions policies throughout the company from suppliers to materials used. Finally Ford’s goals of people’s safety and health. Ford strives to have zero fatalities and zero injuries. Ford also strives to improve employee health through heath programs. (Ford Motor Company,

However, the automobiles produced were of a lower quality and higher price than Ford wanted. Ultimately, the company was not successful and was dissolved in January 1901.

Vision Statement: People working together as a lean, global enterprise to make people’s lives better through automotive and mobility leadership.

The use of teams can be an excellent method to accomplish tasks, goals, and mission. However, a team development strategy must be established to ensure the team is effective and potential issues are addressed. Team leadership is critical in the development, training, monitoring, and success of teams. Teams require training and attention in order to be successful (Cottrill, 1997). In issue six of the DPU case study, the CEO will make the use teams to improve the quality of manufacturing production (Schoology, 2016). The use of small, six person teams will ensure the teams will be productive and engaged. The first step to take when establishing new teams is to identify the issues and concerns of team development.

Bettering the world of business has never been so important. In today’s highly global and connected society, enhancements in business often lead to global improvements. Therefore, as future business leaders, we must be cognizant of our duty to further industries and our world. I have realized this call and made strides in my current role to improve vehicle safety, technology, and competitiveness. Following business school, it is my goal to continue this advancement in the automotive space.

I hope that this meets the intent of this paper and that you learn something new about the management of an organization that I have the most interest in. I wanted to discuss how the lessons that we have covered during this class are used and demonstrated in a large worldwide company such as Ford Motor Co.