Toyota Motors Company Case Analysis

Toyota Motor Corporation (TOYOTA) is one of biggest automaker in the world. Main products are a passenger car, truck, bus, RV etc. The company headquartered in Toyota, Aichi, Japan which employed 300,734 people worldwide and was the third largest automobile manufacture in 2011 by production behind General Motors and Volkswagen Group. Toyota is the eighth largest company in the world by revenue (around 200 billion USD) in 2011. The company reported it had manufactured its 200million cars in 2012.

The third model is the columnisation that portrays the crucial hostility that exist between the social and social framework since its advantage groupings happen in the hermetically fixed sections of culture. Volkswagen Group Company is one of the worldwide car contenders of Toyota Motors Company and the model of culture that is most suitable for it is the particular model since it works internationally and expect that there are agreement and consistency in the advertising society (Books, 2011).

“Among the elements of social and cultural structure, two are important for our purposes. These are analytically separable although they merge imperceptibly in concrete situations. The first consists of culturally defined goals, purposes, and interests … The second phase of the social structure defines, regulates, and controls the acceptable modes of achieving these goals." (Merton 672,673)

Culture delivers the strategies for people’s interpretations of situations they come across and for the responses, they consider applicable. Social Structure, “the organized patterns of behavior among the basic components of a social system— establishes relatively predictable social relationships among the different peoples in a society” (Parrillo,2014). For example, the orientation between a minority group with the dominate group always has a set guideline how the other group should act or fit in with the dominate group. From the dominate group being so uptight and selfish of life, thinking everyone that is not made of their similar blood of ethnic group has to act a certain way in order to acquire a suitable life.

Economic systems deal with beliefs & activities that administer products or services for consumers of a population. There are three unequivocal economic systems capitalist, socialism and mixed economy (Cullen, Parboteeach, 2014, p.92).

Culture is a common behaviour of the human, representing a group of common ideological. "Cultural difference" is the difference between the cultures of different countries, different nationalities, for

The cultures affect each other in a way. Thus, the culture should have the characteristic features by not having so much cultural paradoxes.

Culture, according to Hofstede (1982), is a “collective programming of the mind which distinguish the members of one category from another”. The term “category of people” can be a nation, a region, a work organization, or even a family.

Culture is a complex subject held by a particular social group, considered the core concept in intercultural communication. It varies from primary dimensions such as age, ethnicity, gender, geographical location, sexual orientation, social economic status, etc. culture, however, is “not rigid and homogeneous, but is dynamic and heterogeneous” ( Martin, Nakayama 36). It is valid to say this statement is opinioned to be true. We live in a social world in which we are not part of a unified system. Culture is not a variable, meaning it cannot be quantified or measured. For instance, being a Hispanic at a time and place is deeply heterogeneous. People who belong to a certain group culture in a particular, do not all act alike or behave the same, regardless of their cultural background. Nevertheless, individuals are stereotyped based on their physical appearance or background, etc.

If, however, a more detailed, complex view of culture such as Schein’s definition is applied, it can be seen that the extent to which culture can be managed is limited to only the shallowest level, and that underlying beliefs, values, and assumptions are not readily malleable.

Toyota Motor Corporation is a well-known Japanese automaker. The headquarters of Toyota is in Aichi, Japan. More than 3 million people are employed in Toyota on the global scale. By production, Toyota is one of the second biggest car manufacturers in the world in accordance with the statistics of the year 2010. By revenue, Toyota is counted as the biggest automakers in Pakistan. Recently, Toyota reported to manufacture 200 millionth vehicle. Other than being an automaker company, Toyota is known to be an organization which is very much involved in other activities that are related to research and development.

The general idea of culture that is ingrained into the brains of many people, may consist of associating culture with countries or ethnic groups. One of the main key points to this term is that it incorporates much more than just those two aspects. When viewing it from a sociological perspective, culture can be deconstructed into 3 components. Through background knowledge after taking a sociology class, values, norms, and artifacts when combined, is what defines the term culture. These aspects that create culture, can differentiate a family from one another.

There are many economic system in the study of economy .Economy system is the structure of production, distribution of economic input and output and consumption of goods and services in an economy. There are 3 types of economic system which are planned economy system (command economy), mixed economy system and free market system (market economy). Therefore , different countries have different economy system.

Understanding the influence of culture in business practices and managerial decision-making requires explaining the differences between cultures. This is why, Hofstede (appendix 1) presents a well-known model based on four dimensions of culture:

In the Chapter 3 of “The Reality of Social Construction”, Dave Elder-Vass examines the academic views about culture and rules. He calls cultural realism the view according to which culture and rules exist independently of people. In this chapter, the author explains the reason why he does not agree with the academic view of culture.