Ford Motor Co. is offering buyouts to some salaried employees in the U.S. as part of a bid to eliminate about 1,000 positions as it looks to better align staffing with needed skills, the Dearborn automaker confirmed Thursday.
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/ford/2021/08/05/ford-launches-buyouts-bid-cut-1-000-salaried-jobs/5497495001/
Until the BOD emails were released also thought
“clueless acquiescent BOD”
Now we see BOD directed management to take immoral actions.
Granted behind the scenes the Ford family might of guided that BOD behavior in the meeting prep.
Agree with the sentiment that it is time for the Ford family to step aside or just sell the company to a capable steward.
I hope they will extend some of that Separation Package "Love" to the Hourly side as well. 😁
Unfortunately Ford is not a culture of meritocracy and excellence. Everyone can wish that someone will wave a magic wand and Ford management will begin to act in the companies best interest instead of their own short term interests. But face it , that will not happen.
The Ford culture has degraded to the point of no return. It is a culture of mediocrity and backstabbing sycophants. There is a high percentage of employees on the friends and family plan. The higher the pay grade the larger percentage of those on the friends and family plan. Needless to say that those on the friends and family plan do not contribute to the success of Ford, but they will be staying and the competent employees will need to go. The more competent an employee is, the bigger threat they are to the incompetents so the more likely they are to be shown the door. While this does not make sound business sense, it makes Ford sense.
ITO is heavily skewed to old white male with pension, which is the demographic that leadership wants to trim.
Maybe, but the only consideration that is even slightly reasonable is the pension eligible for controlling future costs. Problem is that this group will tend to be older to "old" since pensions stopped being offered 17 years ago. That's means if this was their first job right out of college they're at least 38. I'd guess that in actuality that most are going to be Gen X that came in after "Ford 2000", so mid 40's - mid 50's. There are additional protections for workers once they hit 55, so I can see why right now is the time that management would want to target the youngest of the pension eligible.
It should need to be said, but race should not be a factor. The goal should be to make sure that any incompetent or lazy workers are not protected, especially if they are of the majority race.
ITO has a mission to shift as much work to Ford of India as possible.
That's it right there! The current batch of managers probably remember what a flop offshoring was in the 2000-2006 time frame, and then the next cycle in the 2010-2015 frame, and for some reason think they can be successful this time. Sure seems like the ultimate goal is to be an Indian rather than American company.
ITO management is horrible.... projects fail because the staff is full of loafers and con artists
Can't argue with that!
silos of incompetency all hiding behind bureaucracy to coverup their incompetency.
Perfect description of certain teams I've dealt with in ITO. It's unfortunate that the teams who actually do their job well don't get noticed since things run smooth.
So glad the VSSP extended to ITO. Ford should outsource the entire organization.
Good to try to clear house but I say we would be better off striving to build a top-notch IT org rather than be subject to the increasing incompetence of providers such as IBM & HPE.
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To answer your question about ITO
ITO is heavily skewed to old white male with pension, which is the demographic that leadership wants to trim. ITO has a mission to shift as much work to Ford of India as possible. ITO management is horrible. They never really accomplish anything. One day tasks are turned into massive year long projects with a PM and LL3 and LL4 oversight. The projects fail because the staff is full of loafers and con artists, then they pay outside consultants to come in to accomplish what Ford staff could not accomplish. They put incompetent Ford staff in charge of telling the consultants what to do, the consultants laugh all the way to the bank doing exactly what they are told, and the project drags on for years.
Anyone who has worked at a company other than Ford and then works in Ford ITO knows what a joke Ford ITO is. Antiquated mindsets, antiquated technology, inadequate security and controls, silos of incompetency all hiding behind bureaucracy to coverup their incompetency.
So glad the VSSP extended to ITO. Ford should outsource the entire organization.
The comments about purchasing are interesting. The problem with them is the leadership in the dept is extremely poor across the board. What you have are leaders who have worked their way up by being brown nosers vs people who worked their way up by being effective at their job/good with people. I also think the constant TVM pressure each year makes for poor decisions and strains relationships with suppliers. I can’t say there is one person above LL6 that I have ever enjoyed working with in purchasing. Like i said, all brown nosers who don’t have the first clue how to manage people.
There are really good people in purchasing, but most exist at the GSR level and will never get promoted because they “don’t fit the mold” aka arent brown noser, etc
Amazing how obvious it is that the PR are shovelling something out to cover up for SRD being a 3+ year process (per the BCG docs on their own site). If the following things are accurate and true, why in the world is the VSSP being extended to ITO (including those working on what is needed for "digital connetivity")?
In May, the automaker unveiled a growth plan dubbed "Ford+." The plan looks to leverage electrification, digital connectivity and commercial vehicles as Ford attempts to move to a new business model ....
"We are reshaping our workforce to match the critical skills and positions needed to continue to transform our business," a Ford spokesperson, Monique Brentley, said in a statement. "Staffing adjustments, including hiring and separations, are part of a multiyear process to align talent with our cycle and service plan and to turn around our automotive operations."
"align talent" to inexperienced & cheap!
Ford Is a jerrasic dump of a company that needs to go out of business.
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The purchasing department at Ford has always been, well, interesting.
I'm SURE this will help all the recalls and decline in quality.
Wouldn’t give you a nickel for anyone in Purchasing. Den of privileged thieves that have hurt Ford so much in business community in NA.
There are tons of job postings on jobsonline right now. Just saying.
This will be interesting to watch play out. In 2017 Marketing and Purchasing were offered 18 months. ME & PD were excluded because they were deemed critical. Now you are tossed to the curbside. So sad that we are treated this way, So why as an engineer would I submit a high cost saving idea only to screwed on PR? Same goes for a Patent. I just PF4 (delete)those emails. Morale will continue to collapse, how do you motivate people when they have to worry about the MIBs over their back ready to walk them out? Even worse the management lacks "KARMA". When Allan hit the stage he had a presence. JF or HTT. If they are suppose to motivate people. Please drink "RED BULL" or drink plenty of coffee. All real snoozers. If you want to see people go Offer the 18 months. You will more than exceed your targets.
Yep, dump experience and bring in clueless, expensive, no experience new hires to ensure we continue to fail in product quality and launch. All in the name of age discrimination and diversity.
I'm amazed Phoebe Wall Howard reported this bad news. I guess she couldn't ignore it once the News got ahold of it. Now her BFF Jimmy Car Car is going to give her the silent treatment for a couple days.
Conway plan is kaput.
All a lot of tosh, separate 1000, go on another hiring and promotion spree. Ford Circle of life.
Shows how far behind the news newspapers actually are. Apparently, this one doesn’t use this site for news tips.