Discount Tutor
Classmate 1:
Toyota has a good model at looking at how they view their employees and in the end the customers too. They wanted to expand into the US, which they looked at a partnership as a good way to get a jump into the US market system. GM had a factory in Freemont, California which ended up going down the hole because of numerous problems such as drugs, alcohol, and system failure. This made them the worst production facility in the US which ended up making them close. Toyota offered to teach GM its secrets in the production system in exchange for help with the market. With Toyota wanting to come to the US they are promoting is a good steward, by making the cars in different areas you could offer a good price to the customers without having to ship your cars halfway across the world. Thus helping many different economies grow as well with new jobs and fewer exports buying.
With the new jobs coming many of the employees needed to go to the Japan facility to receive training and once enough people completed the training the facility will be open in the US. They emphasized on employee contribution which was not meaningless. This is good subsidiarity thinking with the corporation not taking full control of every aspect of the facility but encouraging the once actual going through the process contribute information to produce efficiently. Before GM was the complete opposite because of quantity over quality. They never halted production even with major problems such as wrong parts. Even major problems which are an example of the Pinto, because no one wanted to correct the issue just more cars on the market instead of quality ones. The company model is a good way to explain subsidiarity. The top is looking out for the lower class of people and encouraging them to have a voice in what goes on. Not much is said about what is happening on the outside but what matters is the small improvements such as how they treat their employees. Other companies might pick up the same idea and keep going then, in the end, promoting a subsidiarity belief in the business field. Treating the people this way will transfer over to the ones that they come in contact with so it is a never-ending cycle once you start small.
Classmate 2:
Toyota Motors Corporation and General Motors collaborated following the collapse of GM plant established at Fremont. The failure was due to the poor relationship between the management and the workers, poor work ethics, drug, and alcohol habit of the workers. After its closure, it showed no efforts to reestablish it again and so Toyota Motors Corporation saw it as an opportunity to collaborate with General Motors. Toyota Motors Corporation proposed its willingness to assist General Motors' if they collaborated with them and show them how to work with the US market. The deal was signed and so the former workers of General Motors had to attend two weeks of training sessions in the Toyota Motors Corporation Toyota production plant in Japan. The subsidiary principle holds that one or a party is given some degree of independence concerning a higher body or organization. This is exactly what happened with the general motors. Its collaboration with the Toyota Motors Corporation gave them independence in that the workers gained skills in the management of the organization from the training organized by the Toyota Motors Corporation.