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Ford Motor Company is one of the pioneers of the automakers and the biggest in the United States and around the globe. It was founded on June 16, 1903, by Henry Ford and based in Dearborn, Michigan. “With just 12 investor s and 1,000 shares, the company had spent almost all of its $28,000 cash investment by the time it sold the first Ford Model A on July 23, 1903”[For16]. After the Model T, Ford Company started to become a strong company and become a challenge to the other automobile company that existed before like Buick, Cadillac. Ford Company was founded under strong core values with make the overcome many obstacles like thedepression and push for the successful of the company. Some of the new innovations of Ford is the Mustang and the Taurus that make major moves in Ford Company. Ford Company had many ethical and social issue as like the Grimshaw v. Ford Motor Company. With this ethical problem that made Ford Motor Company develop a Ford’s Company Handbook with talk about the ethical risk and provide guidance on how to recognize and how to overcome the ethical issues[For161]. Ford Motor Company mission statement “People working together as a lean, global enterprise to make people’s lives better through automotive and mobility leadership”[For161]. With mean everybody from the customer who buy the vehicles, the employee who help in the design of the vehicle, the dealer that sell the vehicle, the investor who invest from his capital, thesupplier with help top build the vehicle by provide the components, union with help the employee and suppliers, and the community satisfaction of the vehicle. All these elements are parts in the process of leadership and production process with help to make one team as the mission statement said. The work as a team will help to process any ethical issues and get into a solution. Ford Motor Company is an international company with also need to provide the same level of quality of there vehicles in any part of the globe. 2
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FORD MOTOR COMPANYFord Motor Company has shown by fallowing all this objective the company can continue the dream of the founder Henry Ford, but however the company had their good and bad time, like per example in 2006, the company has made most of their losses. At that time was Allan Mullaly with was the new CEO for Ford Company and was trying to restructure Ford Company with the aid to drive “The Way Fo