Team Toyota, Transporting the Toyota Culture to the Toyota Plant to the Camry1) Book OverviewThe book I read was Team Toyota, Transporting the Toyota Culture to the Camry Plan in Kentucky, written by Terry L Besser, in 1996. She has conducted interviews with employees at all levels of the company, but with a very small population, which she highlights each time in the book as a limitation of the study. The main idea of ​​the book is to discuss the introduction of the Japanese management model and its implications for American employees. Besser gives us an overview of the American management model, as well as the traditional Western bureaucratic model. The author, from the introduction of the book, highlights some of the key differences of the Japanese model: • Both structures are pyramidal, but the shapes are different, the Japanese is tall, thin and fine-grained, the reason is to allocate seniority promotions.• In bureaucratic pyramids, decisions are made at the top and are communicated to lower levels. In contrast, in Japanese organizations, decisions are made by a group of people close to the problem at hand and then sent to senior management to authorize changes. • Social corporatism, the ideology of community of destiny and autonomous company-sponsored unions. The question that guides the book is: Will American workers respond to the Japanese style of organizing by working hard to help the organization achieve its goals? The book begins by explaining the structure of the Japanese model: work team, business teams, and corporate team. She also devoted a chapter to talking about two main problems for the company: restricted employees – workers who are injured or sick and cannot perform their normal job but do not need rehabilitation at work. hospital or home, and how employees do almost everything. automatic tasks, and their benefits and challenges. Besser will also give a special chapter on the women's environment at Toyota. At the end, Besser will summarize the perceptions and show some facts indicating whether or not the transplant of the culture was a success.2) Topic Analysis and CorrelationThe main idea of ​​this chapter is to relate the topic to the discussion we are having had throughout the semester. . To better organize the ideas, I will separate the discussion with the same headings used for the lectures, and I will link these topics to the book..