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When Henry Ford was building up his famous management and production system for model T, he was also shaping his unique business ideology which is known as Fordism. This paper tries to examine the nature of his ideology, and its relations with the management organization of the Ford Motor Company.
Although he advocated “service” as a business objective rather than “profit”, he actively engaged in profit making as far as it was earned through production. He accused bank-capitalists and inactive stockholders of carrying away a part of profit which should be retained for the reduction of production cost. Cost reduction could lead to the low price and high wage which would favor customers and laborers.
Fordism as a business ideology could not help having an effect on the history of the Company. Henry Ford emphasized the importance of the mechanical aspect too much and did not applied his Ford System to the management organization as a whole. According to P.F. Drucker, the decline and confusion of the Company during 1930's might be caused by his failure to recognize the importance of the management organization. This paper also analizes the conflict between ideology and organization during reorganizing process of 1940's.
