Team Toyota
Subtitle: Transplanting the Toyota Culture to the Camry Plant in Kentucky (S U N Y Series in the Sociology of Work and Organizations)
Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr
Published: January 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 199
ISBN-13: 9780791431450
Subjects: Road vehicle manufacturing industry; Kentucky; Case studies; Automobile Industries (Economic Aspects); Labor Force; Sociology - General; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Industries - General; Business/Economics; Industrial sociology; Employees; Careers - Job Almanacs; Toyota Jidåosha Kåogyåo Kabushiki Kaisha; Automobile industry workers; Georgetown
Description: In Team Toyota Besser presents the results of an in-depth study of Toyota's assembly plant in Georgetown, Kentucky. Based on employee interviews, analyses of company publications, newspaper accounts, interaction with company employees and attendance at company events over a five-year period, this book documents how Toyota is replicating its style of management and its team culture in its Kentucky plant.

Team Toyota is one of the few books about Japanese organizations that incorporates the perspectives of both nonmanagement and management employees.