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Toyota Motor Corporation Leadership Style

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Toyota Motor Corporation which is an automobile industry manufacturing company, the largest car company in Japan, since 2008, Toyota motor Corporation become the first car manufacturers in the world Ranking. And the Toyota Motor Corporation means based in the future, confidence in the future and ambition. However the Toyota company's leader, Akio Toyoda who is the fourth generation of leader in Toyota Family. Akio Toyoda is a very intelligent man and also gets good ability, He tubes Asian central and South America market development, Toyota in foreign production has 3 million vehicles, which is equivalent to the output of the Honda. At the same time it is also because had such great production, just let Toyota in quantity to be the world first manufacturer. Using Daring and Leffel (2010) this essay will analyze the leadership style of Akio Toyoda and explain why these leadership styles will make him become effective.

Using Peter G (2007) this essay explain leadership is different people have different meaning; everyone on the definition of the leadership is not same. But in Hackman and Johnson (2000) that essay explain leadership is in the human society, leadership is a basic element. Doesn't matter what kind of society, the leadership is kind of universality. Leadership seems to what it means to human. Fund as a communication point of view, we believe that the human beings have the ability of special is to create and manipulate symbols. And also in Hackman and Johnson (2000) Management in the literal sense is equal to leadership. However, the leadership is different from management. Managers maybe can as a leader, but they don't. And also, the staff can also as for a leadership role, even if they don't have a management position. And that means leadership is mainly through their own actions to change the staff about the attitude in work, and also make the company become more sequence. However managers are mainly to supervise and control staff, and managers are more concerned with the benefits of the company.

As for a leadership, Akio Toyoda is an analyzer. In Daring and Leffel (2010) explain this characteristic of this kind of style of leadership is to analysis the relatively low self-confidence and level. This kind of analysis and comparison tend to use accurate, deliberate, systematic way to as for a leading role. In addition, they do things usually before collecting a large amount of data to analyze. At the same time, the analytical people usually are industrious, objective, and have good ability of organization. Analytical leaders good control themselves and careful, also like to clear and order. General cases more formal. Analysis type leaders are good finding what they are good at career, engineering, accounting, finance and law and so on. In 2009, Toyota Motor Corporation announced, because of the car had some defects of the parts. Took back parts of car, a total of 688314 cars. And in that meeting,

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