Toyota Motor Japan, the abbreviation of Toyota Motor Corporation, was founded in 1938 and is one of the Japanese automobile manufacturers. The company ranked fifth in the Fortune 500 in 2008.
The development course of Toyota;
Akio Toyoda is Toyoda Shoichiro's father. Akio Toyoda began to learn carpentry when he was very young. At the age of 23, he transformed a hand-made wooden loom, which increased the production capacity by 40-50% compared with the traditional wooden loom.
George successfully invented the Toyota-style human loom, and obtained the first patent in his life, which reduced the uneven parts in the fabric and improved the quality of the fabric. However, despite George's confidence in his products, the actual sales volume is not satisfactory.
In order to better develop his own factory, Cong sent his eldest son Toyoda Shoichiro to Imperial University in Tokyo to study. After graduating from college, Toyoda Shoichiro came to Toyota Textile Company as a mechanic. After 10 years of basic training, he became the general manager. He is far-sighted and not satisfied with his immediate achievements.
When he found that cars were the future trend and decided to take it as his career, his idea was strongly supported by his father. It took him four months to experience the automobile traffic in Britain, visited the automobile industries in Britain and the United States, and thoroughly found out the automobile production situation.
This trip abroad left a deep impression on him and strengthened his determination to develop his own automobile career. Soon after, Zuo Ji called his son to his eyes before he died, leaving him the last sentence, I will make the loom and you will make the car.
He also gave my son 6.5438+0 million yen from the patent transfer as a research fund for automobiles. At that time, there was a car for every four people in the United States, but Toyoda Shoichiro thought that if there were 654.38+00 people in Japan, 654.38+00 million Japanese people would need 654.38+00 million cars, and the average service life of cars at that time was 654.38+00 years, which was every year.
Of course, what Akio Toyoda didn't expect was that today's Japan has reached the level of one car for three people, a large number of cars are exported to all countries in the world, and the total output of cars has surpassed that of the United States, becoming the world's automobile hegemon.
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Toyota's corporate culture;
1. Abide by the spirit of domestic and foreign laws and regulations, and strive to become a trusted corporate citizen of the international community through open and fair corporate activities.
2. Abide by the cultures and customs of various countries and regions, and make contributions to local economic construction and social development through enterprise activities rooted in local society.
3. With the mission of providing safe products beneficial to environmental protection, we will make unremitting efforts to create a better and more comfortable living environment and a richer society through all enterprise activities.
4. Continuously develop and research the most advanced science and technology in various fields, and provide attractive products and services to meet the needs of global customers.
On the basis of mutual trust and shared responsibility between employers and employees, we will create a corporate culture that can give full play to individual creativity and team strength.
6. Strive to achieve coordinated development with society through global innovation management.
7. Based on the open business relationship, we are committed to learning from each other and innovating constantly, so as to realize the good relationship of * * * * * * survival and long-term stable development.
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