Word: toyotas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deal with Renault is a forerunner of the worldwide consolidation that is likely to take place in the auto industry during this decade. Last week, for example, Ford confirmed that it was continuing discussions on a deal with Toyota to build cars in the U.S. Some observers predict that mergers among the world's 30 major auto producers will finally result in perhaps only nine superfirms doing business in all parts of the globe. Three of these might be based in the U.S., three in Japan and three in Europe. In addition, there will probably...
They no longer sing the company song before each work shift at Toyota and other Japanese auto plants, but the workers do have 5 to 10 min. of calisthenics and get a briefing on the day's work schedule before plunging spiritedly into their jobs. Japanese autoworkers are imbued with a sense of mission, a sense that doing a good job is important to them, to their union, to their families and to their nation. Worker alienation is almost unheard of, and sabotage is unknown. Coke bottles do not rattle in the doors of Toyotas as they sometimes...
...even sweeping the floor, without prodding, loss of face or initiating a grievance procedure with the union. The goal of labor-management relations was enunciated by Japan's premier industrialist, Konosuke Matsushita, founder of the company that makes Panasonic electrical products: "Harmony over opposition." The last strike, at Toyota in 1955, involved a fight over reducing the work force. The dispute was concluded when the entire board of directors resigned in apology. Wages increased 212% from 1970 to 1978, and when benefits are included, the average autoworker now earns about $9 per hour, vs. $17 for his U.S. counterpart...
...Japan's auto plants, however, are marvels of design like the Volkswagen plant built two years ago in New Stanton, Pa., or some of the other new and redesigned American factories. The Toyota operations in Toyota City near Nagoya are noisy, dark and cramped. At 60 cars per hour, the assembly lines do not even approximate the blistering 100-car-an-hour pace once set by GM's Lordstown, Ohio, line. But the slower speeds allow workers more time for the job at hand, and as a result the parts fit snugly and the screws are tight. Each...
...ability to turn out technologically superior cars, and many admit to some nervousness now that the American firms are becoming serious about producing small cars. In fact, no one will be watching the market performance of Detroit's new cars closer than automen in the executive suites of Toyota, Nissan and Honda...