トヨタ生産方式と組織改革 : 近年のトヨタの収益体質の強化

Abstract

Due to the impact of the Corona disaster, most companies in the Japanese automobile industry have suffered a significant decline in profits. Among them, attention is focused on Toyota's high profitability. Toyota's strengths are the Toyota Production System and cost reduction. This paper deals with Toyota, which maintains high profitability even under a pandemic, as one of the case studies of practical management. Toyota has carried out organizational reforms and expanded the Toyota Production System to non-production areas in order to strengthen its earnings constitution. This paper considers Toyota's recent organizational reforms and their significance. The conclusions of this paper are the following two points. First, the Toyota Production System, which is applied to the production process at the production site, can also be applied to business processes in non-production areas. Second, Toyota's recent organizational reforms have been effective in expanding the Toyota Production System to non-production areas.