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Would You Work For Toyota?

10 February, 2010 by James Lawther Leave a Comment

Toyota has recalled several million vehicles over the past month and halted production and sales of 8 models.  The media is in a frenzy, lambasting the company that was widely regarded as a quality leader, we love to see giants fall.

I wonder how it feels to work for Toyota at the moment.  Are employees disillusioned and fed up by this disaster and the knock to Toyota’s reputation?

We will never know what went on in Toyota’s corridors of power, but here is another line of thought:

Toyota is simply doing what it has always done, making reliable cars.  It takes real conviction in your beliefs to spend so much money halting production and recalling so many cars.  Perhaps if I worked for Toyota I would be proud of the way they are behaving.

I wonder how Ford or Fiat would have dealt with the issue.  How would your organisation behave?

Photo by Chandler Cruttenden on Unsplash

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: purpose, reinforcing behaviour, Toyota, video

About the Author

James Lawther
James Lawther

James Lawther is a middle-aged, middle manager.

To reach this highly elevated position he has worked in numerous industries, from supermarket retailing to tax collecting.  He has had several operational roles, including running the night shift in a frozen pea packing factory and carrying out operational research for a credit card company.

As you can see from his C.V. he has either a wealth of experience or is incapable of holding down a job.  If the latter is true this post isn’t worth a minute of your attention.

Unfortunately, the only way to find out is to read it and decide for yourself.

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