The stories I could tell about our "wonderful" workforce in India. Look, I cannot even blame their culture, or them, about their sh!tty performance. I have to blame our management.
We'd have the same quality workforce, the same issues, if we'd hire the dreggs of the American workers, or the ones finishing college in the last places, with no idea of the real world. And that's precisely what Ford is doing in India. We care about headcount, not about the quality of that headcount. We care to hire cheap labour, cheap even in India, so we cannot even get the average Indian worker.
Managers love the Indian workforce because they say yes to every single stoopid idea, until they have to ask the American workforce to do the actual job. The indian workers get a job, having to stand the stoopidity of our managers, and hoping to get a resume good enough to find a better place soon. For most of them, Ford is just a "quick stop".
So who hires cheaper than cheap in India, knowing the workers will move on as soon as they can, that they are inexperienced, and that they don't care about the company? Management... and you could trace it all the way to the top, because there is no freakking way that an LL6 hires in India (many prefer hiring in America) without the approval of the bigger ups, who are forcing an attrition on the NA workforce.