GM Adopted Forced Ranking in 2024. Ford Dropped It in 2001.

Lean Blog by Mark Graban · Sep 7, 2026

Phoebe Wall Howard reported recently that a fired GM engineer is suing the company over its employee evaluation system. Tuan Le, 58, spent 27 years at General Motors, moving from industrial engineer to senior throughput simulation engineer. GM terminated him on January 17, 2026. He is the third GM employee represented by attorney Michael Pitt to allege that GM's forced ranking system (as they describe it) requires managers to hit job-elimination quotas that fall hardest […] The post GM Adopted Forced Ranking in 2024. Ford Dropped It in 2001. by Mark Graban appeared first at Lean Blog by…