Human Resource Management in Toyota

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Human Resource Management

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Contents
Introduction...........................................................................................................................................2
Analysis of HR issue in Toyota.............................................................................................................2
Most significant problem needing to be addressed in Toyota................................................................3
Process for implementing the change(s) that will address the problem.................................................4
Conclusion.............................................................................................................................................5
References.............................................................................................................................................6

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Introduction
Human resource management plays an essential role in the success of any
organization (Collings, Wood & Szamosi, 2018). There are many fields, theories and
philosophies which can be applied to organisation domain so that to achieve extended success
in various areas. Due to breakdown in the human resource management, Toyota is facing
number of crisis and issues. One of the major issue in the Toyota Company is the reward
system. The issue with this is the rewarding of manager based on cost containment in spite if
the sustaining the quality of product. Another issue in Toyota is the top-level management is
ignoring concern of lower level manager. In addition to this, human resource department of
Toyota is also failed to perform the proper risk management. All these issues are being
discussed in the report and outlines explicitly. Furthermore, a necessary process has been
discussed for implementing the change so that the company can remove several barriers in
path of success.
Analysis of HR issue in Toyota
In previous years, Toyota was the standard for all the other manufacturing industry
and other worldwide companies. With the various recalls in current years due to the defects in
manufacturing of Toyota, manufacturing companies are no longer striving to imitate the
quality of Toyota. The major human resource issue in Toyota is the reward system at the
corporation (Soliman, 2017).
The overall culture is the most common issue that caused the manufacturing defect in
Toyota. It is because personnel, as well as lower level manager, were complaining about the
quality of Toyota quality. The upper-level management was also having no reason to take the
lower level management complaints seriously. This proves to be dangerous corporate culture
where the upper level management ignores the lower management on the production floor.
Besides this, lower level management is also lee likely to receive the bonus for achieving the
target (Quirke, 2017). Another issue has led the company in making continuing series of
immense calls. In recent years, Toyota has experienced huge development but in domain of
HR management, the company not able to effectively manage their employees in terms of