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Organization Description

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Organization Description

Ford Motor Company is a global vehicle manufacturing company that was established By Ford among other co-founders in 1903. The company was established as one of the earliest motor companies in the US .However since then the company has managed to develop to be among the biggest motor companies in the world. The company main mission is to create one company, one team, one goal and one Ford. This means the company focus on integrating the work of all the company stakeholders to attain the best results. The company has employed diverse employees based on their culture, originality, skills, experience and knowledge, where each employee is anticipated to make a unique contribution to the company in any part of the world to enhance the accomplishment of the organizational goals. To accomplish the best, the company employs different inputs that include workers recruitment and initial training, workers regular training, competitive compensation and motivation. They also provide workers with all required work resources, manufacturing materials and machinery to enhance this process. The company provides information on the manufacturing process to be used in all its 98 plants in the world. This ensures uniformity on the product quality which assist in maintain the company’s brand identity (Corporate.Ford.com, 2016).

The company main output is different types of vehicles which bear the company’s logo Ford. The company mostly major on non-luxurious vehicles such as trucks, though it makes all varieties. To make the anticipated products, the company employs a number of process that include human resources management which include the recruitment process, training process, and compensation and motivation process. It is also engaged in the manufacturing process which includes raw material purchase and shipment, information transformation process and communication, regional coordination process, marketing process, and supply chain among other process. These processes play a great role in ensuring successful production and distribution of the company’s products. The company main tipping points include acquisition which has highly enhanced the expansion of the Ford company at the international level. The company has increased its number of plants and areas of operation through acquisitions or mergers. Among the acquired companies include Volvo, and Mazda. The other tipping point can only be experienced in case the company experiences bankruptcy which can mainly result to its downfall (Corporate.Ford.com, 2016).

System Theory

An organization is a complex system which comprises of different departments, processes, entities, and operations. According to general system theory, a perfect system has a way of regulating its self to enhance equilibrium. This simply implies that, a healthy or perfect system should have a way of controlling its resources, particularly the human resources to enhance effective operations of the organization without any conflicts and shortcomings. Nevertheless, the general system theory condition is normally unattainable in other systems other than in the undisturbed natural (biological) systems. It is hard to attain this perfection in any other organization. This according to boulding hierarchy of system is due to the fact that an organization is a complex system that can only be streamlined by approaching it in stages using a hierarchical technique. In this regard, an organization can only fight to attain the best standards but cannot naturally attain self-regulating status, but can be managed to produce the best results. In this regard, Ford should consider regulating its processes despite of its complex nature, being an international company that focuses on one quality by employing boulding hierarchy system with intention of attaining perfection supported by the general system theory (Oshry, 2007).

Supporting Research

The above organization gives a great presentation of the selected organization and its form of management. The presentation supporting information includes:

Corporate.Ford.com. (2016). Retrieved from <https://corporate.ford.com/company/history.html>

Oshry, B. (2007). Seeing systems:  Unlocking the mysteries of organizational life. San Francisco, CA: Berrett-Koehler.