Management Across Culture: Working Effectively At Toyota

DirectionsConsider and explain the communication and negotiation utilized by Toyota, when referring to the “Internet Exercise: Working Effectively at Toyota” on page 236 in the textbook.

(Page 236 in textbook)

For 11 straight years, the Toyota Camry has been the best-selling car in the United States, and the firm’s share of the American automobile market was solid. However, the company is not resting on its laurels. Toyota has expanded worldwide and is now doing business in scores of countries. Visit the firm’s website and find out what it has been up to lately. The address is www.toyota.com. Then take a tour of the company’s products and services including cars, air services, and sports vehicles. Next, go to the jobs section site, and see what types of career opportunities there are at Toyota. Finally, find out what Toyota is doing in your particular locale.  Then, drawing upon this information and the material you  read in the chapter, answer these three questions:

1) What type of communication and negotiation challenges do you think you would face if you worked for Toyota and were in constant communication with home-office personnel in Japan?

2) What type of communication training do you think the firm would need to provide to you to ensure that you were effective in dealing with senior-level Japanese management in the Hierarchy?

3) Using Table 7-1 as your guide, what conclusions can you draw regarding communicating with the Japanese managers, and what guidelines would you offer to a non-Japanese employee who just entered the firm and is looking for advice and guidance regarding how to communicate and negotiate more effectively?

Write a one to two page paper summarizing your findings. The written summary should be double-spaced using 12-point Times New Roman font. You will need to cite your sources of information (at least three) at the end of your paper. Though the paper need not be in APA format, the citations at the end do. One of those three citations may be from the Luthans and Doh textbook, and one citation may come from an online website. However, at least one of these three citations should be from the NAU Online Library. You will need to conduct independent research using the Business Databases Subject Guide on the NAU Online Library.

Please ensure that the paper is plagarism free.  Thanks!