Research Paper on:
Ford Motor Company's Management Issues

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pickup truck and the Ford Taurus automobile (Hoovers, 2002). The company makes vehicles under a number of brands, however, including Ford, Lincoln, Mercury, Volvo, Aston Martin and Jaguar (Hoovers, 2002).  It also has numerous other subsidiaries, like the Automobile Protection Corporation - APCO and the Premier Automotive Group (Hoovers, 2002). Ford Motor Company has faced a number of human resource  problems over the last few years, the most serious of which were charges of harassment, specifically of sexual and racial harassment (The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 1999). The  company was also charged with punitive retaliation against women who complained of this harassment (The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 1999). The case went to the U.S. Equal Employment  Opportunity Commission (EEOC) who found for the women and against the company (The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 1999). The settlement between the EEOC and Ford included a payment  of $8 million in damages to "female employees alleged to have been victimized by sexual harassment, racial harassment, harassment on the basis of sex, and retaliation for complaining to management  about the harassment" (The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 1999). This was the fourth largest settlement for harassment charges made out of court (Smart Workplace Practices Newsletter, 2001). Ford  made an additional agreement with the EEOC to train all of its employees on the issue of job discrimination, an effort with an estimated cost of $10 million (The U.S.  Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 1999). Finally, the settlement required Ford to increase the number of women in supervisory positions at the Chicago Stamping and Assembly Plants (The U.S. Equal Employment  Opportunity Commission, 1999). Women are supposed to occupy 30 percent of these positions within 3 years of the EEOC settlement (The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 1999). This kind of