Supplier Sustainability at Fiat Chrysler Automobiles: Assessing All Tiers

by: Christopher White

Publication Date: November 16, 2016
Length: 16 pages
Product ID#: 1-430-489

Core Disciplines: Leadership/Organizational Behavior, Negotiations, Social Impact, Strategy & Management, Sustainability

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Description

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) Sustainability Director Bill Hall and his colleague Todd Yaney want to ensure sustainability, ethics, and human rights compliance throughout the company’s Tier 2 through 5 suppliers. They aim to achieve broader, sub-tier supplier alignment with FCA’s environmental, social, and governance objectives. Hall and Yaney realize they will have to successfully navigate through the complexity of both FCA and its supply chain in order to create positive change without authority.

Teaching Objectives

After reading and discussing the material, students should:

  • Understand the nuanced situation facing Hall and Yaney as they seek to create positive change without authority.
  • Apply appropriate frameworks and tools for creating change without authority to this specific situation.
  • Describe how they might proceed if placed into a similar situation as the protagonist.