2. 1. Discuss how Toyota can train its employees to shape team behavior and
emphasize teamwork throughout the organization. (500 words)
To start off with, what is teamwork and how do we define it. Teamwork is where
a group of people formed to finish a task given together with the purpose of done
it with effective and efficient and understood as the willingness of a group of
people to work together to achieve a common aim and to perform better, Working
in an organization wasn’t easy as people move jobs, new projects come in, staff
members are added and removed and so on, that is why people have diffusion of
responsibility, social loafing, escalation of commitment and so on. And there
comes in the reason why teamwork is needed in an organization.
Employers of Toyota believe that having a long-term thinking is one of the ways
to elongate company. One can’t build a long term future on short term thinking.
By saying that, most of the employers should not desperately seeking short term
answer as they should have faith and trust at their employee. Clarify and identify
specific roles in a team. Work should be appropriated reasonably distributed
among members, according to every individual's expertise and capacity. This is
because each task is connected to another in a team. Once the leader is able to
clarify each work area, it will be easier for the team to achieve its objectives by
making use of allocated time.
Not only that, Toyota also able reinforced the importance of the organization by
organizing team building activities. Never underestimate the power of ice
breakers, fun and some laughter. Throughout team building activities, it will
define one’s real strengths and able to understand each other’s energy styles and
how they communicate in different circumstances can be a learning knowledge
for everyone. A team leader plays an important role in guiding the team members
and motivating them to stay focused. As a leader, they should encourage their
team members throughout the activities, motivates the members to participate and
takes the initiatives of bringing every members closer. With the help of team
building activities, members would learned that how important it is to work as a
team as one could not success without each other in an organization. Not only
does it help to rebuild or maintain levels of trust, it also allows teams to regain
sight of the overall vision and the role they play in achieving this. Make sure
every member participates and enjoy themselves, as this makes them feel like the
valued staff members that they are. Remember that team members are people and
there always certain things that people respond well to, always be kind and gives
another opportunity or probably any other role and ensure they could perform
better this time.
3. In order to shape team behavior in an organization, it is also important that
Toyota Company concern is both parties need to have trust and faith in each
other. Despite the appearance, personality which some of the people might have
trust issues and so on. As people work together, they need to learn what is
important is that having each other when they face any difficulties and learn to
help each other in order to perform better. Trust and respect their respective
employees. Do not just understand but deeply driven into their mind through
repeated reference practices, an employer who runs in an organization would need
to knows what their employees needs and require in order to improve group
effectiveness and efficiency. It is a way to reduce stress, to improve
communication between each other.
Team trust can be influenced by a variety of factors, including the structures
organizations put in place to reward their employees. An analysis of team-based
rewards, in particular, suggests several interesting implications regarding their
impact on team trust. If trust is lacking within an organization, it should be the
very first issue to be addressed, without it, an organization will soon start to lag
behind the competition.
To conclude, knowing the limit capability of an individual in a group is
important. As Henry Ford once said “Coming together is a beginning. Keeping
together is progress. Working together is success.” Heroes is not about a person,
is about teamwork spirit.
4. 2. In your opinion, analyze if Toyota has succeeded because of its team-oriented
culture or it could have succeeded without it. (500 words)
In my opinion, Toyota’s company had defiantly success for establishing team-
oriented culture as the core of the organization. The company had to ensure each
and every of their employees are oriented towards teamwork. They do not just
ensure the quality of the product but also the production process of the
manufacture because Toyota belief that the design process of a new car needs a
concerted effort, not a single person. As such, Toyota belief without
teamwork means without innovative and without power to development.
The team-oriented gave a potential for Toyota to get higher level of output
without input increase meantime. In the meantime, the after effects of endeavor of
individuals in a group make the level of execution more prominent than outline of
each member's performance.
As a leader of the Toyota company that is willing to venture back and not take
glory for the company achievements that justifies itself and they are creating
admirably income and condition is likewise great amongst groups and they are
encouraging every others and inspiring. Team spirit in the organization within
employers and employee emphasize the act of mutual support encourages and
motivates each other to achieve better performance. By having mutual support, it
able to shares experiences and knowledge, more opportunity for leaning and
professional development.
Likewise, another reason why Toyota is success with their team-oriented culture
is because they emphasize the system of having different skilled applied by every
different employees based on their expertise. In Toyota, they belief that a single
brain can sometimes not take every basic choice alone, subsequently a group is
framed where the colleagues contribute similarly making the errand considerably
simpler. A team can really create wonders about whether all the team members
work in unison by having each of the members doing their expertise part of work
so that they could perform even better than usual performance.
Besides, building trust and confidence in the company is also essential in an
organization. The culture is the set of processes in an organization that affects the
total motivation of its people. In a high-performing culture, it able to boost up
motivation of the employees to provide a better outcome. As a leader in Toyota,
the manager that is willing to accept a pay cut of 10% to avoid lay off in the
company is definitely one of the facts that would leads their employees to be more
appreciated, encourages and trust among the employees to work harder which will
5. employees. A leader that is willing to make sacrifices for the better changes in an
organization definitely able to boost up their relationship and trust among each
other.
In contrast, without teamwork in an organization, it is barely impossible to
achieve goals alone. However in Toyota that ensures the candidates to be oriented
towards teamwork, it is easier for the new employees to adapt, as old ones are
accustomed to their former work culture. Without teamwork, it would be a slow
and long process before an organization able to adapt team culture which will
eventually slow up the process in achieving certain goals. Moreover, job
applicants must not only be competent and possess technical skills, but must
exhibit strong teamwork capabilities in order to provide better outcomes.
As a conclusion, teamwork is an act of force or energy that motivates people to
be more oriented towards their jobs as in an organization. We might be smart, but
together we are smarter. Togetherness is the key to success as in my opinion
Toyota’s success is undeniably determined by its team-oriented culture.
