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Manufacturing Setting and Employee Motivation

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company that gives significant lip service to diversity, for instance, yet, it has had a number of discrimination and harassment suits brought against it by the EEOC and in all  but two cases, the EEOC ruled against Ford and imposed huge settlement fines against the company (The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 1999; Ford, 2001). Ford publicizes numerous programs  and management approaches intended to motivate their employees, which can be found with a casual navigation through their Web site or even on Internet job sites (Ford, 2001; Monster.com, 2002).  For example, Ford adversities their Worklife Initiative, which includes a number of programs to help employees balance their work and personal lives (Monster.com, 2002). These programs include childcare, elder care,  wellness, fitness, telecommuting and flextime (Monster.com, 2002). About these programs, Ford writes to the potential applicant: "These programs help you maximize both your own personal growth and your contribution to  the company. Through these programs, we aim to attract and retain top professional talent, generate goodwill inside and outside the company, make our people as productive as possible, and make  worklife initiatives a valued part of our corporate culture" (Monster.com, 2002). But, there are some very serious employee relations problems in this corporation. They have been charged with racial discrimination,  gender discrimination, age discrimination, racial harassment, sexual harassment and with reverse discrimination (Shepardson, 2001; The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 1999; Ford, Press, 2001). Any huge corporation is faced with  allegations every day. Disgruntled employees who are not promoted or who do not receive the type of raise they think they deserve may look for any real or false reason  to sue the company and race and gender are two excellent excuses because they are often impossible to disprove. Oftentimes, disgruntled employees will just throw threats around expecting the company