university name | Safety Recalls | With reference to Toyota | | Your Name Course TitleInstructor Name | [Pick the date] | Introduction Toyota has officially announced that it will recall 2010 model Prius and Lexus HS250h models globally along with the Toyota models in Japan to fix an issue the performance of their braking systems. The latest in a series of safety related problems with Toyotas became public fodder last week when Toyota acknowledged that customers of the third generation
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Analysis of the 2009 Toyota Motor Company Automobile Recall In September 2009, Japanese automotive manufacturer Toyota issued a recall of 3.8 million vehicles due to “unintended acceleration” that was believed to be caused by loose floor mats becoming lodged under the gas pedal due to a design flaw in the pedal layout. Since the initial recall, which affected seven models ranging from 2004 to 2010, more details have emerged. Instances of surges in acceleration in Toyota vehicles have been investigated
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[pic] 1. From 2009 to 2010, Toyota recalled millions of cars for accelerator pedal sticking. The first recall, on November 2, 2009, was to correct a possible incursion of an incorrect or out-of-place front driver's side floor mat into the foot pedal well, which can cause pedal entrapment. The second recall, on January 21, 2010, was begun after some crashes were shown not to have been caused by floor mat incursion. In March 2010, at the time of the recall, Toyota was unsure of the cause behind
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Ethics and Credibility in Business Communications In 2009, Toyota was accused of ignoring safety concerns in regards to faulty brakes and acceleration pedals which sent the car manufacturer into a public relations crisis. Toyota continued to blame the sticking pedals on faulty floor mats, not electrical error and was found to delay the recall process in order to save money. In order to avoid a massive recall, Toyota ignored Consumer complaints and recalled limited amounts of vehicles during different
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Recommendations | 10 | 7 | Bibliography | 14 | INTRODUCTION Toyota Motor Corporation, is a Japanese multinational automaker headquartered in Toyota, Aichi, Japan. In 2010, Toyota Motor Corporation employed 317,734 people worldwide, and was the world's largest automobile manufacturer by production. The company was founded by Kiichiro Toyoda in 1937 as a spinoff from his father's company Toyota Industries to create automobiles. TMC is part of the Toyota Group, one of the largest conglomerates in the world
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University School of Business and Engineering Master in Management of Innovation and Business Development Toyota Crisis: Management Ignorance? – A Swedish Case of Consumers Perceptions Master’s Dissertation in Management of Innovation and Business Development, 15 ECTS Final seminar 2010-05-27 Authors: Yuanyuan Feng Supervisor: Mike Danilovic Hamlstad University Feng(2010) TOYOTA CRISIS: MANAGEMENT IGNORANCE? – A SWEDISH CASE OF CONSUMERS PERCEPTIONS Yuanyuan Feng School of Business
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company, which is why I chose the company Toyota. Toyota offers a full line of products for just about every need and lifestyle such as cars, trucks, SUV’s, hybrids, motorcycles and minivans. Toyota a massive car empire manufactures vehicles every day; this company has 53 production sites in 27 countries around the world (Piotrowski Chris 2010). In the fiscal year 2009 Toyota sold approximately 7.5 million vehicles worldwide in about 170 countries under the Toyota, Daihatsu, and Hino brands which ranked
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TB0243 Michael Greto Andreas Schotter Mary Teagarden Toyota: The Accelerator Crisis The root cause of their problems is that the company was hijacked, some years ago, by anti-family, financially oriented pirates. Jim Press, former President & Chief Operating Officer (COO) Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. On February 24, 2010, Akio Toyoda, the grandson of Toyota Motor Corporation’s founder, Kiichiro Toyoda, endured a grueling question-and-answer session before the U.S. House of Representatives
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Fields Abstract/Executive Summary Toyota has analyze and created innovative solutions to management the current problems that exist... As a result of improving process Toyota can maintained loyal customers and decrease the possibilities of defect parts and recalls. The purpose of this paper is to provide a problem statement that will identify the importance of quality management. This paper is also intended to give a brief over view of history of Toyota’s recall issues. The paper will analyze a few
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Executive Summary This report will introduce Toyota company of business ethics, in the first part, the report described the definition of business ethics, and then introduced the environmental scanning method and PEST and concretely introduces the Toyota company's ethical dilemma, how to solve this problem, from the Angle of moral evaluation, the whole situation based on different kinds of ethical theory, business ethics from the perspective of moral comprehensive understanding of the problem, and
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