Management Chapter 6 2 Date Workers Suppliers Government Customers Leadership Degiorgio Tells Team That There Were

12

Date

GM

Leadership

GM Workers

Suppliers

Government

Customers

• DeGiorgio

tells team that

there were no

ignition

switch

changes

related to

power

2010

• CEO

Edward

Whitacre, Jr

(12/1/09-

9/1/10)

• GM was

again

profitable

• NHTSA ODI

again reviewed

Cobalt issues

but reported no

trend

• Legal cases

referenced

airbag non-

deployment

“anomalies“

• March

crash:

Melton

2005 Cobalt

Georgia

2011

• CEO Dan

Akerson

(9/1/10-

1/15/14)

• January – GM

Legal inquired

into airbag

“anomaly”

• July – GM

Legal

investigation

did nothing

for 2.5 years

(GM Nod)

• August – GM

started a Field

Performance

Evaluation

(FPE) into

frontal crashes

where the

airbags did

not deploy –

not classified

as a safety

issue

2012

• May – GM

junkyard

13

Date

GM

Leadership

GM Workers

Suppliers

Government

Customers

vehicles for

torque issues

• 2003-2007

fail below 10

N-cm

• 2007 and later

fail below 15

N-cm

• June –

DeGiorgio

states in

writing that he

made no

changes to

affect the

torque in 2006

• September –

GM Red-X

team finds no

cars to test

why switch

differed by

model year

2013

• April – GM

hires outside

engineer Gay

Kent to

• October –

Delphi

produced

documentation

15

Date

GM

Leadership

GM Workers

Suppliers

Government

Customers

• November –

Judge rules that

GM keeps

bankruptcy

protection

18

This was the key design that was cancelled (from the Valukas Report):

19

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