Southfield, Michigan — Ford Motor has ousted the head of its most important business unit because of unspecified "inappropriate behaviour", the latest in a litany of setbacks to hit the US car maker. An internal probe found that Raj Nair, president of Ford’s North America operations, engaged in behaviour "inconsistent with the company’s code of conduct", according to a statement. Ford began the investigation after an anonymous complaint from within the company. While Ford declined to detail what had led to Nair’s immediate exit, he is departing as prominent men from Washington to Hollywood are implicated in misconduct. Although high-profile firings clearly linked to the #MeToo movement have yet to materialise within the car industry, Ford’s CE did apologise late in 2017 for harassment on the car maker’s factory floors. Ford appointed Kumar Galhotra on Thursday as president of its North America business to replace Nair, Reuters reported. Galhotra, who previously led Ford’s luxury Lin...
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