Ford Case - Roles of the People

In this paper will talk about the Ford case and what the roles people played, products, and also the profits that they decided about the Ford pinto. It also talk about the mission, values, and principles that reflect in the case. Last it will talk about the alignment with the team's values and Ford values.

The roles of the people, products, and profits in this case were controversial to a degree. Ford Motor Company was liable for many lives and families were demolished because of faulty maintenance to the Ford Pinto. This company based its decision not to implement the new design as a result of the cost per car. However, this new design for the fuel systems could have save many lives. Senseless to say the cost of life was chose instead. People were definitely huge part of these cases in the 1970s. The products for the Pinto was not costly to the Ford Motor Company, it would have cost the company about 11 dollars per car to run the new designs. The price of a brand new Pinto was under 2000 dollars. As a result of the love of money the Ford Motor Company suffered and lost millions of dollars in lawsuits. There huge profits for the company in the beginning until the issue of spending money to make improvements became greater than the understanding of life.

If the Ford Company had taking the time to develop a better set of stated mission, values, guiding principles and organizational culture, they would have had a better code of ethics in place, as they do today. Today Ford is one of the number one car makers in the U.S. Senseless to say there is no question that many lives were lost in the 1970s because of the bad decision of one person to build a vehicle that did not have the best interest of the consumers on hand. It is senseless and heartless to ever believe that making a profit and meeting a deadline is ever better and more satisfying than saving or preventing the loss of human life.

The difference in the relationship between the stated mission, values, and supervisory, principles in 1970s than today, is that the consumer is been put first thanks to government regulations standards and guidelines that have to be followed by everyone in the motor vehicle industry. More monitoring of these companies