Impact of Corporate Culture on Human Resource Management at Toyota

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Introduction
The corporate culture of Toyota Motor Company is based on Japanese norms. It has a
rigid structure of organizational hierarchy with differing production processes and the decision
making of the company rests solely with the managerial heads. The employees attempt to
maintain cordial relationships with supervisors although the work pressure and inflexible shift
timings not favoured by the workers.
Effects of corporate culture on human resource management
Following some unfavorable reports, the brand value of the company is going off the cliff
and it has deeply impacted the human resource management. The Chairman has transformed the
principles of technology usage. The company had so far used eco-friendly technology, the shift
to research-oriented new technology marks a massive cultural change. The manufacturing
process is now based on technology-innovation, a far shift from lean production (Yang et al.
2015 pp.66-73). The human resources are attempting to balance redundancy requirements with
lean production since the development of new product has uncertain outcomes and has to be built
in redundancies. The high-tech product designs compel the vehicle-manufacturers to provide the
suppliers with more design details. This shift from low to high complexity in technical expertise
makes it necessary for the company to close between cheaper, go to market and reliable product
design (Jame and Jones 2014 pp.2174-2191) and revolutionary technology promising continuous
improvement. The decisions concerning strategic positioning will affect suppliers’ cooperation
since their value propositions and competitive advantage needs changes to accord with Toyota’s.
The company had been expanding to foreign countries in the past decade by building assembly
plants, engineering entities and supplier bases and has also changed leadership. That the
company has undergone major changes is evident in its financial indicators related to Human