political-legal factors. A major economic factor affecting the world and Ford Motor Company alike is the recession. * Due to the recession, society is looking for more affordable transportation in which Ford has adapted to by promoting lower priced vehicles. Society is also becoming more technologically advanced in which Ford has also adapted to by adding touch screens, navigation systems, as well as other add-ons. * Ford Motor Company is the world’s fifth largest automaker. The company declines
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General Motors General Motors Corporation has failed to adequately respond to shifts in its general and competitive environments. We will argue that past success led to over-confident management and inertia, causing lack of foresight in anticipating change, and causing it to undertake obligations that now constrain its ability to react. We will first introduce GM’s traditional business strategy, and what its position is relative to its competitors. Then, we will describe GM’s global, economic
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surrounding. Let’s look at the relative environmental trends of the world as of 2015: Shrinking Carbon Footprints Governments and corporations around the world are focused on reducing their carbon footprint for social and financial reasons. The general trend in the economy is an effort to reduce such emissions. In an effort to reduce their footprint, companies are switching to next big topics of environmental trends as energy-efficient lighting, digitizing records and making recycling a priority
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History Since the Ford Motor Company’s incorporation by Henry Ford in 1903, its strategic focus has remained on automobile design and manufacturing. Up until 1970, competition was from the two other manufacturers making up the Big Three Automakers; General Motors and Chrysler. However, starting in the 1970’s, foreign competition, mostly from Toyota and Honda, eventually lead to overcapacity within the industry. As more and more developing and industrial nations encouraged development into the
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In February of 2015, General Motors initiated a recall on 800,000 Chevrolet Cobalt and Pontiac G5 and 600,000 Chevrolet HHR, Pontiac Solstice, Saturn Ion and Saturn Sky vehicles. The controversy surrounding the recall at this time was why had GM chosen to recall the defective vehicles so long after the ignition switch problem had been discovered. They had been under investigation for just that. Recently inducted as GM’s CEO, Mary Barra was struggling to keep the GM name in tact through this recall
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should companies do to allow whistleblowing? They should establish concrete programs that facilitate and encourage employees to whistleblow. Why GM Fails at Whistleblowing In a BusinessWeek article, GM Recalls: How General Motors Silenced a Whistle-Blower, a report blames General Motors with a culture of complacency for the more than decade-long delay before the company recalled millions of faulty vehicles. It described employees as passing the buck and committees falling back on the “GM nod” – the
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GM Ignition Switch Scandal General Motors recalled about 800,000 cars due to faulty ignition switches on February 6, 2014. The problem with the faulty part was that it could shut off the engine while driving, thus preventing the airbags from deploying and inflating. General Motors to recall more of its small cars, which resulted in almost 30 million cars worldwide recalled and them having to compensate for 124 deaths. The faulty part had been well known to GM for upwards of ten years prior to them
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Stephen Lemieux Environmental Issues Professor Nerney January 20, 2016 Article 1 The article that I chose was about the U.S. Bringing Gas Mileage Rules to Era of Hybrids, meaning car companies (Ford) are trying to get their new hybrid vehicles to go above and beyond with their miles per gallon. Ford’s new C-Max hybrid is trying to get the miles per gallon from 47 to 43 miles. The payments for these vehicles will go up to $550 and $325 to people that have leased them. Since then Ford sold
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industry crisis in North America in 2009. The auto manufacturing industry had taken such a dramatic turn from being large and successful to becoming an industry full of debt and bad reputation; especially for three big and important companies: General Motors, Ford Motor and Chrysler. The “big three”, as they call it, had faced a major turndown leaving thousands and thousands of employees without jobs as a result of a series of bad long term “strategic “decisions. To aid these large industries, the government
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about the car industry. The first prospect that came to mind was General Motors. I picked General Motors because of its popularity in the United States. I had some interesting general knowledge of the company like the dependability and quality of their cars. Some comments were, “I rather have a Chevy Truck than a Ford” and “The general motors cars are more dependable than Ford.” These comments made it clear that I liked the General Motors auto line of cars. Then, I asked myself what would be a cooperate
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