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In the latest departure from the practices of former CEO Jacques Nasser taken by the Ford Motor Company under new CEO, and great-grandson of the company?s founder, William Clay Ford Jr. (see WIT for Oct. 31, 2001), the company is changing the name of a manager evaluation system that has already been the subject of several major substantive changes. The Performance Management Program (PMP), as the system was known, had originally established an evaluation process leading to A,B and C ratings, with a requirement that at least ten percent of managers be assigned the lowest rating. The PMP had resulted in class action discrimination lawsuits against the company by older, white workers who felt that under they received a disproportionate number of C ratings as compared to women and minorities.