...manufacturers , but Ford was the most popular and affordable to the people. Henry Ford produced many cars, but had two very popular models, these being the Model T and the Model A. Both models made by Ford were very prominent and affordable, and made for mass production to fulfill the needs of our growing society. The Model T was a admirable car during its production, but soon owners realized that it had a few flaws. Henry ford saw these small issues and decided to resolved them with a upgrade, with the new Model A. Henry Ford’s many new improvements made the Model A a great advancement compared to the Model T for the Ford company in the automobile industry. The Model A was a great improvement and influence to car history and the advancements we have today in our society. The Model T was a great automobile introduction to the United States, a mass produced car with lots of new interesting specs. The Model T had many new features to a car that many Americans had not seen in automobiles. For example the Model T had a four cylinder, with detachable cylinder heads for easy access and repair (“Model T.” Encyclopedia Britannica). Although when the Ford Model T was introduced there was no paved roads and was very rural compared to today. During the start of production the Model T was available in grey, green, blue, and red although Henry later changed it to an all black colour rule (“Model T.” Encyclopedia Britannica). Henry Ford produced fourteen different body styles for the Model T along...
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...Henry Ford saw his company continue grow and decided to buy the Lincoln Car Company changed the name of his company to The Ford Lincoln Motor Company. The Ford Lincoln Motor Company became the leading car manufacturing company in the United States and began to expand globally.(History.com) With this expansion the production of the automobile was slowing down because materials had to come from various factories and sources. So Henry Ford decided to speed up the production process by integrating his operation to include production, assembly, and transportation of the automobile. (History.com.) To complete this integration process Ford purchased a railroad, acquired control of 16 coal mines and about 700,000 (285,000 hectares) acres of timberland,...
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...A Leadership Analysis of Henry Ford Brief Historical Sketch Who knew that a young farm boy that loved tinkering with pocket watches and simple farm equipment would lead a manufacturing revolution. Henry Ford did. Even from an early age Ford understood that he wanted to change the world. His dream was to design and build a “horseless carriage,” a dream that he accomplish in 1908 (Ford, 2008). However, not even Ford could have predicted the magnitude at which both his invention and his business strategies would have on the world. Henry Ford was born in the small town of Dearborn, Michigan on July 30, 1863. The town was better known as the Greenfield Township. Ford’s parents were both European immigrants. His father, William Ford, emigrated from Ireland and his mother, Mary Ford, though born in the United States had strong ties to Belgium. (Henry Ford, 2012) The Fords were a successful farming family and never had to worry about money. While Henry Ford knew at an early age that taking over the family farm would have been a safe and advantageous decision, his ambition kept him focused on other possibilities. (Ford, H 2008) Ford’s teenage years were instrumental in helping him develop is dream and his career. There were two important memories that Ford could recall that sparked his interest in motor vehicles and engineering. Around the age of twelve, the Ford’s were traveling to Detroit with family when they passed a “road engine” delivering farm machinery (Ford, H 2008). This...
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...Archives is intertwined with the efforts to tell the story of the company. Both of these initiatives – the creation of the Archives and the telling of the Ford Motor Company story – began with the approach of the fiftieth anniversary. Company executives and the Ford family realized the importance of Henry Ford and his company in the development and progress of the twentieth century. They accepted the obligation to gather and organize the company's historical legacy to ensure that the broader story could be told. As a result, the first fifty years of the company (including its early international expansion) are fairly well documented and accessible to the public in research materials and in books. The historical record of the next fifty years, including the company's modernization and further international development under Henry Ford II, is less complete. By the early 1960s, for various reasons, the Ford Archives began to experience the "down side" of the up and down cycle that characterizes the history of American corporate archives. Most of the Ford archival holdings were donated to a nonprofit educational institution, Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village (now known as The Henry Ford). The remaining holdings stayed at Ford. For more than thirty years, the renamed Ford Industrial Archives maintained a low profile within the company and within the research community, overseen by a single employee. Very few historical records were culled from the company's business records...
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...Contents 1.0 Introduction 2 2.0 Ford Company Background 4 3.0 Toyota Company Background 5 4.0 Scientific Management 6 5.0 Scientific Management in Ford Motor Company 7 6.0 Contingency Theory 10 7.0 Contingency Theory in Toyota 12 8.0 How Scientific Management impacts Ford’s Workers 14 9.0 How Contingency Theory Impacts Toyota’s Workers 16 10.0 Definition of Organizational Culture and Structure 18 11.0 Ford Organizational Culture 19 12.0 Ford Organizational Structure 20 13.0 Toyota Organizational Culture 21 14.0 Toyota Organizational Structure 23 15.0 Motivational Theories 24 16.0 Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs in Ford 25 17.0 Impacts of Hierarchy of Needs Theory 29 18.0 Goal-setting Theory in Toyota 30 19.0 Impacts Goal-setting Theory 32 20.0 Conclusion 33 21.0 References 34 1.0 Introduction One of the most important human activities is managing . Ever since people began forming groups to accomplish aims they could not achieve as individuals . Managing has been essential to ensure the coordination of individuals efforts . As society has come to rely increasingly on group effort as many organized groups have been grown larger , the task of managers have been rising in importance . The term management drives from latin word “Manu agere” which means to lead by hand . Lead by hand means , giving directions . It also implies that the leading person first goes where he or she wants to send the followers (Shied, 2010) . According to Drucker (1974) management...
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...late 1800’s and early 1900’s in America. One example of this would be textile factories because they use machines that may be dangerous, but the machine’s efficiency pays off, and there is not a lot of manual labor put into the job. It’s all just risk and skill used to not get a limb or finger sliced off. This was a time for innovation like Henry Ford and his idea of the assembly line. This idea made it so the common man could afford to own an automobile like the rich people. Another innovative thing was done by Andrew Carnegie and his idea of producing steel quicker and for less money. Industrialization produced a positive impact on society because of the transcontinental railroad,captains of industry, and automobiles. The first reason to support the claim is the Transcontinental Railroad. This 2000 mile long railroad was finished in May of 1867 and connected the east and west coast. This revolutionary railroad changed a 6-18 month journey into a 4-6 day journey....
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...Ford Motor Company Analysis Introduction Ford Motor Company was originally founded by Henry Ford in Dearborn, Michigan on June 16, 1903. Ford Motor Company has a very glamorous history. Since it was found in the early 1900’s, Ford positioned them as the reformer of the car manufacturing industry. Their mission was clearly stated in words, “began a manufacturing revolution with its mass production assembly lines”. And they rendered the corporate strategies matching with their goal in later years. “They introduced methods for large-scale manufacturing of cars and large-scale management of an industrial workforce using elaborately engineered manufacturing sequences typified by moving assembly lines. Henry Ford's methods came to be known around the world as Fordism by 1914”. (“The Ford Story”) http://www.thefordstory.com/ the combination of attractive product design with the efficiency in manufacturing brought them not just profits, but popularity and reputation. Some of their famous classic designs like Model T, 500hp GT, Mustangs, Sport Utility Vehicle (SUV), Taurus and the best-selling F-series truck are still sold well. But Ford has been on the downhill since the beginning of the 21st century. Because of the crush of the bad economy and flawed management strategies, Ford suffered a lot and the previous ranking is now after Toyota and General Motor. It’s quite a burden to the CEO, Alan Mulally, who was elected as the new CEO in 2006 after Bill Ford stepped down...
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...choosing to do what produced the greatest amount of good for the greatest amount of people; a subcompact car that cost $2,000 and weighing no more than 2,000 pounds (Ford & Newton, 2008, p. 296), sold to 11 million customers as opposed to the only 180 people who lost their lives! Valuing a human life at $200,000 against a part that if individually purchased cost $11, Ford felt that it was less expensive to settle fatality claims at $200,000 per life – so they thought, until jury’s started awarding multi-million settlements – so much for their cost-benefit analysis. When a person comes to a conclusion on a decision, many times there are influences from outside sources that impact the choices made. In this case it is the lack of caring about human life, death and suffering. If you fall into that category, society looks upon you with the utmost contempt. People have generally accepted that death is a natural part of the human cycle. The problem is that people usually come to easier terms with death when people die of “natural causes” and have lived a long and...
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...Great American Innovators America has gone through great change from its foundation to present day. Many people have helped to shape the great country in which we proudly call home. Our nation has produced some of the great innovators who shaped the industrial revolution, modern day communications and the use of electric light bulb. The simplest things that we take for granted once were the greatest innovations of their time. Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell and Henry Ford are three of the greatest men that have contributed directly to a many things that we use in our day to day lives and without these men we would not be the advanced society that we are today. Reaching for a light switch is something we do every day. This is possible due to the contribution of Thomas Alva Edison, the inventor of the light bulb. Edison was born on February 11, 1847, in Milan, Ohio (Frith 5). He did not attain a formal education due to the poor family in which he was raised instead he started working on the railroad at age 12(Frith 14). Although Edison did not complete school, he continued to learn and experiment. Edison set up a printing press in the baggage car on the train and sold his own newspaper to the passengers (Frith 17). He retold the news from one end of the rail line to the other end of the rail line, allowing the people to be better informed of their neighboring towns. He was also able to have a small lab to perform scientific experiments, at least until his chemicals...
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...To understand the important role that business plays in the economy and its influence on your standard of living, imagine a world in which you personally had to produce everything you consume. You would have to grow your own food, sew your own clothes, cook all of your meals, and build your own car, computer, cell phone, house, and furniture. It would be impossible to actually complete all of these activities on your own. Only a fraction of these activities could be completed because it takes a lot of time and resources to learn how and to build a car, computer, house, and so forth. Time and resources are scarce, and people have to make choices about how they spend them. Because business is present in the economy, we are able to consume and enjoy many more goods and services than we otherwise could if we had to produce everything on our own. You eat food that is grown and often prepared by someone else. Your clothes are sewn by someone else. Your car, MP3 player, computer, and cell phone were produced by someone else. The movies you watch and the music you listen to were all created by someone else. If you produced everything on your own, you would have little access to medical and dental care. These items are a part of everyday life and would not be available if not for markets and business. For-profit and nonprofit organizations play important roles in the economy. For-profit organizations produce goods and services, and provide employment with the primary goal of generating...
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...of the machine shop, master mechanic, chief draughtsman, and chief engineer. In 1889 he began his special work of reorganizing the management of manufacturing establishments. A plant that he made over was made over from top to bottom. He laid out the system from the duties of the boy who carried drinking water to the unskilled laborers to the duties of the President, giving his solution to the problems of shop, office, accounting department and sales department, and emphasizing the necessity for the humane treatment of labor. Some of the big shops into which he introduced his theories of scientific management are the Bethlehem Steel Company, Cramp's Shipbuilding Company, and the Midvale Steel Company. He was President of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1905 and 1906. He was the author of technical books and articles, but is best known by "The Principles of Scientific Management" and "Shop Management," both published in 1911. http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0320.html What is it about? put forward the idea that workers are motivated mainly by pay. His Theory of Scientific Management...
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...FORCE -PIERRE BURTON. Pierre Burton, in this essay talks about the evolution of the Car, and how we as a society have evolved along with it over the years. He addresses the various changes in our private and social lives which the car brought about. The main thesis of this essay can be said to be the relation between the Cars and the society, how the evolution of the car over the years has impacted it and to what extent it has changed. The first car to be manufactured and sold was built by a German, Karl Benz, in 1888, called the Benz Patent Motorwagen.1 There was no looking back now. Within two decades, an American by the name of Henry Ford built one of the most successful cars of that era. This was the Ford Model-T. This was closely followed by Ford’s concept of mass production and the moving assembly line in 1914.2 This was now the beginning of the creation of a middle class. The people could now afford the luxury of owning a car of their own and being able to go places whenever they felt the urge to do so, at their own comfort and without much planning ahead. Cars could cover greater distance in a shorter amount of time, could go longer and harder than horses. There was an immediate surge in related industries, such as glass, tires, mechanics etc. This also led to rapid expansion of the cities and the creation of the suburbs. There was a noticeable impact on the country’s infrastructure. Motor vehicles and paved roads had narrowed the gap between rural and urban life...
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...Mustapha Mond’s office. Here they discuss their differences to the rest of society such as Helmholtz’s interests in science, John’s passion for religion and Bernard’s attraction to pain and emotion. Bernard and Helmholtz leave for an island fit for unorthodox individuals, while John runs away to live a pure and wholesome life, to his standards. He finds an old lighthouse and begins to live the simplistic lifestyle he believes that he deserves, where his days mostly consist of religious practices and self torture in attempts to clean himself from the experiences he encountered in the civilized world. What he didn’t know was that he was being filmed and when the ‘feelie’ of his behavior is released, intrigued and stupefied spectators rush to the Savage’s door to inquire about his peculiar ways. John gets swept up in the frenzy and ends up with soma in his system. When he wakes the next morning he recognises what he had done and he decides that the only way to redeem himself is to end his own...
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...Memo To: Senior Management From: Portfolio Management Team Date: September 27, 2011 Re: SBU Proposal Industry Background Ford Motors Corporation was started by Henry Ford. Born in Wayne County, Michigan, in an area that later became Dearborn, on July 30, 1863, Henry Ford was the oldest of six children. In April 1888, Ford married Clara Bryant, a local girl and the foster child of—like Henry—Irish immigrant farmers. In 1893, his only child, Edsel, was born. Success soon came to him as he took a position in 1891 as an engineer at the Edison Illuminating Company and fairly quickly climbed the ranks. With his love for the outdoors and rural values, Ford might have easily remained in agriculture but something even stronger pulled at Ford’s imagination: mechanics, machinery, and understanding how things worked and what new possibilities lay in store. In the 1980’s, he focused particularly on internal combustion engines. Henry Ford called his first vehicle the Quadricycle. It attracted enough financial backing for Ford to leave his engineer position at Edison Illuminating and helped found the Detroit Automobile Company in 1899. The company faltered for a variety of reasons, and in 1901 Ford left to pursue his own work again. Later that year, the Henry Ford Company was born, but Henry Ford himself stayed with it only a few months. He left in early 1902 to devote more time to refining his vehicles. Ford recognized that with the right techniques, cars could be made affordable...
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...Ford Focus: Environmental Analysis Exercise Introduction Henry Ford and 11 other associates established Ford Motor Company in 1903. Manufacture and distribution of their automobiles take place in 200 markets across six continents. The 2010 Ford Annual Report indicated that “throughout 2010 Ford continued market share growth in the car sector with high quality, fuel-efficient offerings bringing bold designs, multiple convenience technologies, comprehensive safety features and engaging driving dynamics” (pg. 7). In 2010, Ford had a net income of $6.6 billion, which was a $3.8 billion increase from the prior year (Ford Annual Report, 3). The 2000 model year was the first for the entry-level sedan, Ford Focus. “Focus represents the company’s highest-volume offering and production in three continents to eventually be sold in 122 markets around the world” (Ford Motor Annual Report, 2010, p. 1). Ford has directed marketing efforts for the Focus to 18- to 29-year-olds that are willing to spend roughly $13,000 to $16,000 on a vehicle. According to Edmunds.com “its affordable price, expressive styling and availability in multiple body styles have all contributed to making this one of Ford's most popular cars worldwide” (Ford Focus Review, 2011). The 2012 Focus has an MSRP of $16,500 for its 2-liter, 4-cylinder Sedan model. The Focus also comes in coupe and hatchback models. Ford has commissioned to perform an environmental scan assessing the potential demand for the Ford...
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