Randy:
How does one audit against this requirement, ""As long as you want the money I pay you, do as I ask!" Some follow on language could be "I will not ask you to violate any laws, personal ethics, moral obligations or commit any other act contrary to proper business and civily approved behavior in our culture."
To properly audit, a clear and understoood requirement is needed. If there is no requirement to compare facts against, then the outcome will be based on opinion. Without a clear requriement, one cannot be impartial and objective becasue the outcome is now based on opinion.
How does one audit against your statement above? May I simply identify things as nonconformances based on what I think? I would be interested to watch a 3rd party audit using the same methodology.
Thank you for professionally qualifying my question as a "DUH" even though you did not answer my question.
My intent of this entire thread was to disucss the fact that ISO 9001 and TS 16949 have many requirements and some very specific requirements but nowhere did the writers add an overt requriement that simply says "employees must follow instructions." To me, that seems to be a basic requirement that should be cleary included and not inferred or implied.
Thank you, Dirk