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1. Recruitment employees bases on typical style of Japanese: intelligent, hardworking, team
player, careful but conservative, stubborn.
2. Equally divided workload for both employees and machines (heijuka)
3. Standardized tasks are the foundation for continuous improvement and encouraging staffs
4. Only use reliable technologies which are thoroughly tested to meet the staffs and
processes
5. Training leaders to become who are able to understand the life and philosophy of staffs
What type of business strategy has Toyota pursued in its international business?
goal has been achieved through extensive use of teams that are subordinate to organizational
goals. Welfare of employees also received wide attention as a part of this goal.
2) The goal of commitment. In order to achieve this goal, a two-pronged strategy was
followed. Firstly, Toyota preferred semi-rural workforce for induction in their plants. They
believe that people who are not contaminated by industrial culture and influences tend to
retain with them a kind of feudal value of loyalty, which can be converted into organizational
commitment. Secondly, measures such as suggestion schemes, quality circles and employee
involvement methods are used to gain commitment.
3) The goal of flexibility and adaptability. Team authority in place of single individual
holding all the powers had paved way for realizing flexibility in the organization. These
teams are task-based and can be dismantled or restructured, depending upon the situation.
The adaptability trait is institutionalized through the approach of multi-skilling and job
rotations.
4) The goal of quality. Self, peer and teams surveillance techniques are used to ensure
quality of products. Further, a series of measures employed, such as time and motion study,
benchmarking, continuous process improvement and employee involvement contributed in
the achievement of this goal.
The Toyota way of recruitment
In-house grooming
The main field of the recruitment: engineering, HR, marketing and IT
Screening process
Background check
Candidate test
Aptitude test
Achievement test
Interviews
Reaching the selecting decision
The Toyota human resources policies will not allow to select any candidate who does not
match with the Toyota culture and identify the enterprise value.
By
Sathish Kumar.P
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