TOYOTA Toyota

Learning from a manager

Introduction

Toyota Motor Company is the main manufacturer along with the assembly of automobiles basing its headquarters in Japan. Other than cars Toyota also makes buses, forklifts as well as trucks along with the inclusion of various commercial motor vehicles. Toyota Motor Company established in the year 1933 by Kiichiro Toyoda. The origination of an automobile department in Kiichiro Toyoda father's emerging industrial unit under the name of Toyoda Automatic Loom Works, Ltd. With the passage of time, Toyota Motor Company followed trips all across the world and set up various business units worldwide. In the United States of America, Toyota Motor Company's unit concentrates in manufacturing fuel-efficient motor vehicle (Garvin, 1986). In the year 1937, Toyoda recognized Toyota Motor Co., Ltd. The name also changed the concept of manufacturing of automobiles, and it was then the company entered into rebuilding, and decided to manufacture smaller cars. The Interview was conducted by the plant manager of Toyota Motor Company encompassing of various questions. The responses of the questions are mentioned below, showing the aptitude of the manager as per the work requirements.

Primary products

Toyota Motor Company is the main manufacturer of small as well as big automobiles, other than cars Toyota also manufactures buses, forklifts as well as trucks along with the inclusion of various commercial motor vehicles. There is a huge list of the cars and other automobile products manufactured as well as assembled by Toyota Motor Company, such as Toyota Lexus, Toyota Volta and even the popular Toyota Limousine (Davies, 2009). Toyota is also famous in making electronic cars and at present entered into the field of Robotic engineering along with the inclusion of electric cars. The company is also a part of the Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation, and other than this there are numerous plans in the company's pipeline (Liker, 2004).

Interview Response Summaries

The manager's day is dealt observing the activities of his subordinates. There is no need of dealing with people and motivating them, but even then appreciation is extremely necessary as according to hum “Good work needs to be appreciated, as it helps other employees contribute their part”. Other than this, the manager's daily routine encompasses of maintaining a check and balance of all the activities along with and ensuring that no error or work failure occurs.

Analysis of the management techniques

The manager's response on the question regarding the most key managerial problem was that only last week was the ultimate non-production week on the plant's schedule. Employees report time constraints and many a times new employees are having the problem of managing their time, and this usually leads to hassle of work. Coping with this problem at times is difficult the employees in competition with these team workers do not follow the instructions and miss some of the main steps of their task. It is essential for the managers at that time to make it appoint so as to motivate the employee and ensure that his or her main focus is on the work rather ...