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Organizational Behavior That Make Toyota Becoming Number One Foreign Company In Automobile Industry

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Since the invention of T Model Cars by Henry Ford in 1908, humans are increasingly regards cars as one of the most important needs in modern life. Oxford Dictionaries noted the definition of cars as “a road vehicle, typically with four wheels, powered by an internal-combustion engine and able to carry a small number of people”. The Wikipedia free translation said that “An automobile, auto car, motor car or car is a wheeled motor vehicle used for transporting passengers, which also carries its own engine or motor. Most definitions of the term specify that automobiles are designed to run primarily on roads, to have seating for one to eight people, to typically have four wheels, and to be constructed principally for the …show more content…

Finally he invented the famous steam powered weaving machine, a machine that can enhance productivity while pressing the costs incurred in weaving production. With his invention, Sakichi Toyoda start become an industrial Person in Japan and established his weaving company that very successful and well-known at that time. But his son, Kiichiro Toyoda has a different passion with his father. Kiichiro founds his passion in automobile rather than the weaving machine.
At the beginning of the establishment, Toyota Motor Corporation is just as a division of Toyoda Automatic Weaving Company. In 1933, their Automatic textile machinery patents been sold to Platt Brothers & Co., Ltd. from the United Kingdom. The fund that coming from sale of the patents is used to development capital in this case is used for the automotive division. When the automotive division commenced their operations, then a lot of things to be done directly by Kiichiro Toyoda. In a short time machine “Type A” was completed in 1934. And then a year later the engine grafted to their first prototype passenger car called A1. In 1936 they launched their first passenger car called “Toyoda AA”. This model was developed from the prototype model of the A1 have been found previously. The vehicle is expected to be the people 's car.
It takes 4 years to end the division finally separated on August 27, 1937 to stand alone as Toyota Motor Corporation as to the present. The name chosen was a Toyota and not Toyoda as the

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