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Author Mishra, Rudrajit, author

Title Corporate downsizing : the Ford and GM approaches / written by Rudrajit Mishra
Published Hyderabad, Telangana : IBS Case Development Centre, [2007]
copyright 2007

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Description 1 online resource (20 pages) : illustrations
Series Human resource management online (text)
Summary Ford, the third largest US based automobile company (after GM and Toyota) planned to retrench its manpower in US in 2006. This announcement came after couple of months of GM's manpower rationalization. Where GM mainly concentrated on cutting the blue collar jobs, Ford planned to cut 14,000 white collar jobs in North America as it tried to turn around its flagging business. It had also planned to close 16 factories by 2007, instead of shutting 12 by 2012 as previously announced. Ford expected these measures would help it to reduce annual costs by about $5bn (£2.65bn) by the end of 2007. Earlier in 2006 Ford announced it would offer redundancy and early retirement packages to all of its 75,000 unionized blue-collar workers in the US. This case deals with the details of employee separation plan of Ford Motors vis-a-vis GM. It also unfolds how this initiative can be strategically beneficial in Ford's turnaround plan and also enlightens HR aspects of this Early Separation Plan
Notes Case study reference no.: HRM0034K
Title from resource description page (viewed May 26, 2015)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 20)
Notes In English
Subject Ford Motor Company -- Case studies
General Motors Corporation -- Case studies
SUBJECT Ford Motor Company. fast (OCoLC)fst00546509
General Motors Corporation. fast (OCoLC)fst00534871
Subject Employees -- Dismissal of -- Case studies
Organizational change -- Case studies
Personnel management -- Case studies
Employees -- Dismissal of.
Organizational change.
Personnel management.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Form Electronic book