Bullseye! Spot on for the new breed of management at Ford.
Too bad customers feel the impact and are driven away to other brands because of ineffective management woes like recalls, failed launches, lawsuits, etc.
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I wish it is long overdue. Ford is rife with management featherbedding.
As every good schoolboy knows the more people there are working under a manager, the higher his salary and the more opportunity for advancement.
There are numerous Ford jobs that could be streamlined, reducing department staffing levels from a few hundred doing mindless jobs to a half a dozen actual engineers needed to solve actual engineering problems. However, it is in the managers best interest to prevent the replacement of 100 underlings with one competent new hire, or a few lines of code to automate a process or two.
So the seat warmers and timeservers will continue to multiply. The management will continue to expand. The competent employees eventually leave for jobs where their skills will actually be valued, and they will be at lower risk of an eventual reorganization and cut. After all no competent employee wants to be on the receiving end of the Ford rage filled vengeance monsters when all they did was turn up at Ford, work competently, inadvertently demonstrating that the existing workers are not the skilled experts they like to present themselves as.
Wntl: I would wait till the end of the year. They just did a voluntary and of course they are still re-organizing so it will take them a few months to get it right in their eyes.
In the fall of 2018 on VP was quoted at a all hands that pd will go down by 25% worldwide over the next 3 years. Expect another 2 years of reductions both voluntary or involuntary.