Organisational Change: A Case Study of Toyota

MNG82001 - Organisational Change
A case study of Toyota
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Table of Contents
Essay.....................................................................................................................................................3
Introduction.......................................................................................................................................3
The case study of Toyota...................................................................................................................3
External and Internal Drivers.............................................................................................................4
Conclusion.........................................................................................................................................5
References.............................................................................................................................................7
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Essay
Introduction
Organisational change is being defined as one of the main concepts in the world full of
complexities and competition. Organizational is defined as the process where association
makes changes in technologies, operational methods, culture, strategies, and structure to
make an impact of a change in the association. This kind of change can occur in time to the
time interval or can be continuous. In nature, organizational change is interdisciplinary and is
being drawn from the field of political science, sociology, psychology, management and
economics (Nordin, et. al., 2012). There is no unified or grand theory of organizational
change; instead, there will be a distinct theory. In this essay, there will be the discussion on
the topic 'Organisational change', on the basis of the case study of 'Toyota', an automobile
company operating in a market and facing tough competition from the other competitors of
the same industry. There will also be a detailed analysis in regards to the way where change,
power, and teamwork are manifested in an association and secondly proper understanding in
association with workplace behaviour.
A case study of Toyota
The Toyota is one of the most popular manufactures of the automobile in the world. They are
in the manufacturing business of the car from the year 1937. A good position has been
secured by the company in the world and the evaluation of their success is derived from the
implementation of the Japanese efficiency and quality. The company makes manufacturing of
reliable and fast vehicles at an economical price. The organization believes in the
improvement and is in the practice of applying important changes (Millar et. al., 2012).
In 2010, a significant change in the structure of the organization is being announced by the
Toyota as a part of the improvement policy. Toyota is well known for making organizational
changes so as to give a competitive advantage to the company in the market. Such kind of
changes differs from the objectives of management so as to re-evaluate hierarchy in a
company. Some of the major changes that have been made by the company are:
 In order to increase the optimum resource utilization and efficiency, Marine business
division and the development unit of the business is renamed to unit business division
and marine. This unit will also look into the sales functions (Eason, 2014).
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