Diversity can be define as difference in various way, while in workplace diversity refers to the differences of people in ethnicity, age, gender, social status, religion and add on with sexual identity, social economic status and even education level (M. Janssens, C. Steyaert, 2013). According to Ferdman (1997), the value of fairness in diverse ethnicity is different as it can be view by different perspective such as associated value of the ethnic, oppurtunities given , discrimination , fair assessment and also view of person. As in our case study, Toyota are facing program due to the rapid gloabalization and diversity and fairness can help in solve the problem as through diversity program can help employees in oversea more understand towards the Toyota as there are many branches of Toyota in the world.
Toyota was origin in Japan and widely spread the branches all over the world, in year 1957, Toyota North America established first branch in USA( From 1957 to the 21st Century Toyota Moving Forward with America, 2013). As what state in the article, most of the workers in Toyota North America was American, this show that Toyota’s sign towards applying diversity into the organization by hiring employees other tha Japanese.
In 2001, Toyota had announced on spending about 7.8 billion to undergo the diversity program in ( Toyota Motor Corporation Corporation, 2001). In the report Toyota 's 21st Century Diversity Stratergy (2001), Toyota had set a target for ten years diversity program with two principle; first, to continously improve in every aspect of business and follow by respect for people. In order to archieve the ten years target, Toyota had a series of action to apply fairness and diversity into the organizaition
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