Toyota: OT At Ford Quality is job ZERO!

Scott in Fla <net> wrote in message news:<com>... 

An interesting thing about Ford is that they got caught up in the
manic-HR-fad-of-the-month idiocy a few years ago, trying to emulate
GE's draconian professional employee performance appraisal system, and
as a result, Ford apparently lost much of their best & more senior
engineering talent. Ford wasn't exactly in a position to lose
engineering talent to begin with, and you can bet that their vehicles
won't improve anytime soon, now that they have even fewer experienced
engineers remaining.

Ford eventually scrapped their "ABC Ranking" professional employee
evaluation system, partly as a result of losing too many experienced
engineers due to the system low-ranking them and forcing them out (!),
and partly to restore morale and stop the employee lawsuits.

Ya think "Quality is Job 1" now ??? <BG>

See

http://www.assemblymag.com/CDA/ArticleInformation/features/BNP__Features__Item/0,6493,99958,00.html

Another article, this one referencing quality guru Deming as well:

http://myphlip.pearsoncmg.com/cw/mpviewce.cfm?vceid=2619&vbcid=3643

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On 29 Aug 2003 17:28:32 -0700, com (Bob H.) wrote:
 

Gawd I used to hate the evaluation process in the big corporations I
worked for. The information you submit seemed to always be used
against people instead of the 'oft quoted' way to improve performance.

There is truth to the old 80/20 rule, but I found that the 80 percent
really did a good job if managed correctly.

Thank god I'm my own boss now. I am either an A or a C....and nobody
else knows or cares <g>.

Looks like Ford has shot itself in the foot....again.

Another good reason to not ever buy a Ford...

Scott in Florida