Analysis of Linear Programming, Corporate Culture, and Toyota's Case

This report provides an executive summary and a detailed analysis of several key topics. It begins with an exploration of linear programming, focusing on rational decision-making processes, the challenges of linearity, and its applications in business contexts. The report then shifts to corporate culture, examining the importance of employee and customer engagement, drawing on examples from Zappos, and discussing the role of values and beliefs in fostering productivity. Finally, the report delves into a case study of Toyota, highlighting the company's organizational culture, including innovation processes, employee focus, result orientation, teamwork, and strategic decision-making. The conclusion summarizes the key findings, and the report includes references to support the analysis.

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Executive Summary
For activity 3, the culture is defined where the people vary from person to person. It includes the
major influence relates to the organization and community development. The culture is defined
for the pattern of communication and actions that leads improvement of company.
For the activity 4, the blog has been divided into different sections which are based on explaining
about the different ideas and the activities to deal with the applications and working of the
organization for Toyota.

Contents
Executive Summary.........................................................................................................................1
Blog 1:.............................................................................................................................................3
Week 1: Activity 1: Linear Programming.......................................................................................3
Blog 2...............................................................................................................................................4
Week 3: Activity 3: Corporate culture.............................................................................................4
Week 4: Activity 4: Toyota’s case...................................................................................................5
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................6
References........................................................................................................................................7

Blog 1:
Week 1: Activity 1: Linear Programming
Question 1: Here, the rational decision making is based on the making of choices in between the
alternatives. Here, there are different logic, objectivity and the analysis that are set to formulate
the goals with the idea of identifying the criteria to make the decisions. The rationalized
modelling is based on the performance analysis and making the decisions that will help in
handling the maximization of the benefits and then minimizing the costs related to the economy
theory. The sets are evaluated with the comparison of the costs and how the objective is able to
provide the greatest reward at the lower costs. (Dantzig, 2016). There is perfect information
which needs to be measured depending upon the data collected and analyzed.
Question 2: there are issues related to the linearity of the relations and how the programming
needs to be worked on the objective functions. Here, in this, there are situations where the
different business and the industrial problems are considered to be non-linear in nature. There are
other disadvantages of the certainty which affects the values of the coefficient and how the
decision variable is able to measure the system processing. The applications of the linear
programming cannot be applied due to the different issues and the coefficients that are
considered to be probabilistic. Here, the issues are related to the consistent barriers and the
divisibility standards which need to work on the non-negative integer and the fractional values.
The integer value includes the solutions with the optimized solutions. The standards are set with
the forms where there are operations to define the specific objectives. The set of constraints are
not expressible through the use of the linear inequalities. (Vanderbei, 2015).
Question 3: The linear programming is based on determining the resources which are based on

maximizing the revenue. It is important for the decision making, where there is a possibility of
the personnel management to handle the problem and relate to the recruitment and the selection
in easy form. The standards are set with the business problems that is used for the management
to decide the different limitations. The use of the staffing problems and for the calculation of the
profit planning is also possible through the linear programming. It is also important for working
on the minimization of the costs and maximizing the profits. Through this, one can easily
calculate the sales and the unit price which can be important for the company growth. The
company includes the costs and the pricing which is important for the decision-making progress.
Blog 2
Week 3: Activity 3: Corporate culture
Question 1: To build the build the culture, there is a need to focus on the engagement of the
customers with the employees. This will help in improving the ability for easy communication
and customer satisfaction. The company like Zappos should focus on providing a better deal and
the service to its customers so that they are able to justify the prices. The culture and the values
are important for attracting the customers with the energetic employees, with the need to engage
in equality and act towards the breakthrough processes.
Question 2: The culture is important for supporting the people behavior with the rule that
represents the growth, and the education with better compensation. The standards are set to meet
the defined forms where there is an easy dealing process and analysis based on the related
elements a, even if it is related to the Zappos working or any other community. The culture also

relates to the specific beliefs where there are morals to form the productivity and social
community development.
Week 4: Activity 4: Toyota’s case
The organization culture works on the shared perceptions where the management and the
employees are able to work on the development plans where:
a. The innovation processes and the different risks takers are there to handle the innovation
process with the encouragement that leads to the deigning of the product and the better
process functioning.
b. There is a detailed focus on the employees who are also encouraged with paying the strict
attention to the details and then maintaining the plans and executing the responsibilities.
(Hoseus & Liker, 2008).
c. The result orientation process with the best products does not lead to any hesitations
about the recall of the product or from the market.
d. The people are also oriented where the employees are always a priority for the company..
e. The team working with proper management leads to the advocate of the team work which
comes due to the recognition with the workers at the different levels.
f. The aggressive nature of the company is when the self-delivering powers of the product
are at its best.
g. The stability is for deciding about the management decisions and then planning about
handling the different million vehicles which leads to work on the source of challenges
and how the capital investments are at stake. (Liker & Hoseus, 2009). The company
Toyota is also working on the strategic decision processes with the assurance that it will
lead to the change in makers with the assurance of the lost stability that is restored.

Conclusion
The eLearning has been able to focus on how Holacracy is there in organization culture, which
has also enabled the different aspects for the detailed description with the video that is
considered for the e-learning purposes.
The eLearning of Toyota is based on how it is able to capitalize the opportunities which are
based on bringing the improvement of the product designing.

References
‘Why Zappos Pays New Employees to Quit--And You Should
Too’ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQLTQAv5JQA
‘Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh talks about building a culture-based company’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdKZapHZL4c
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Liker, J.K. and Hoseus, M., 2009. Human resource development in Toyota culture. International
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Michelli, J., 2011. The Zappos experience: 5 principles to inspire, engage, and wow. McGraw
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MIT's Steven Spear Discusses Toyota's Corporate Culture’ (Interview on Bloomberg
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Vanderbei, R.J., 2015. Linear programming. Heidelberg: Springer.