CORPORATION CULTURE

Leonardo Antonio Zúñiga Martínez.

 About the company.
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Toyota Motor corporation is a Japanese multinational automobile manufacturer
operating its business with a focus on vehicle production and sales.

It was founded by Kiichiro Toyoda on August 1937 as an extension of Toyota

Industries, which was started by Kiiricho´s father, Sakichi Toyota.

Nowadays it is one of the largest automobile manufacturers in the world, currently,

the company assembles vehicles in Belgium, Canada, the Czech Republic, France,
Mexico, Poland, Russia, Turkey, the United Kingdom, the United States, etc..

Its headquarters are located in Aichi, Japan.

 TOYOTA´S CORPORATION CULTURE

Following its reorganization implemented in 2013, Toyota’s corporate culture had a

huge change.

Prior to 2013, its corporate culture emphasized a sense of hierarchy and secrecy.

However, after 2013, the characteristics of Toyota’s organizational culture are as

follows, arranged according to significance:

Teamwork
Continuous improvement through learning
Quality
Secrecy
 TEAMWORK.
The synergy of teamwork leads
to greater capabilities and
success in the automotive
industry. To ensure that, every
Toyota employee goes through a
teambuilding training program.
QUALITY.
Quality is at the heart of
Toyota’s organizational
culture. The success of
the company is typically
attributed to its ability
to provide high quality
automobiles.
CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT
THROUGH LEARNING.
A learning organization
utilizes information of
individual workers to
develop policies and
programs for better
results.
SECRECY.
Toyota’s organizational
culture has a considerable
degree of secrecy. However,
the level of secrecy has
declined following the
reorganization of the company
Which values or company practices do you think cause most problems
in our country?

I think that most of the Eastern companies have a very different corporate culture in terms
of efficiency, philosophies, and standards.
Because of this, problems might be caused by the way Mexican employees execute their
duties; For example, Japanese employees always try their best and they're constantly
getting pressured or pushed to the limits when they're working while Mexican employees
are mostly known for being lazy or too careless.
In fact, Toyota has a lot of cases of deaths from overwork, which, honestly, says a lot
about their old management and how they used to be really strict over their employees.
Another problem is that Toyota s corporate culture is based partially on teamwork, which
is not really practiced in Mexico as much as they do in Japan.
Which values or company practices do you think cause most problems
in our country?

More potential problems could be caused by the values of secrecy and respect, while
Japanese employees follow the rules precisely Mexican employees often show
indifference towards this kind of values.
However, we have to keep in mind that most of this problems are related to the former
corporation culture of Toyota.
Have you ever had personal experience of this yourself?

No I haven’t.