The Toyota Motor Corporation was founded in Japan in 1937 by Kiichiro Toyoda (Abdulmalek & Rajgopal, 2007, p. 225). It was an offshoot of his father’s company, Toyota Industries, and Kiichiro purposed it to create automobiles. Today, Toyota is involved in designing, manufacturing and assembling motor vehicles for sale around the globe. As of March 31st, 2014, Toyota had 338,875 employees from all around the world (Toyota, 2015). Some of Toyota’s most popular brands are the Lexus series, Prius, Camry
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