From a crisis communications perspective, Toyota must admit it failed in one of the areas they are known for having pioneered in manufacturing, which is supply chain management and quality management. To do this, Toyota must first admits they are entirely at fault, this shows they are taking accountability very seriously for the massive quality management breakdown that led to the accelerator pedals not working properly. This is a foundational element of successful crisis communications is to take complete accountability for errors and seek to avert them in the future by relying on new, higher levels of transparency with customers and stakeholders as a result (Dolphin, 295, 296). Third, Toyota had failed to show empathy for the families who lost loved ones due to this massive breakdown in their quality management system. Widely discussed and debated in the media at the time of the recalls and today, Toyota's failures in quality management and engineering led to people dying, and yet in their first letter they do nothing to acknowledge that. In the second letter, in keeping with the concepts of service recovery as an essential part of an ethical foundation of trust with customers (Gross, 919) and showing strong empathy for their memory, a $1M scholarship is immediately created. The Toyota For Life Foundation is specifically designed to honor the memories of the customers and their lived ones killed due to the company's negligence. To further show empathy, all surviving children of parents killed as a result of the accelerator pedal problem also get scholarships to their colleges or universities of their choice. This shows that Toyota understands how pivotal a role parents play in children's educational development. By showing this level of commitment to the victims of the accidents caused by the accelerator pedal, Toyota takes the focus away from the unempathetic, cold first letter and shows they entirely understand the depth of loss incurred is beyond any monetary figure. Taking the step of providing free educations for the...
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However, certain elements of the Toyota Production System must be re-evaluated, particularly the conception of waste. If the principles of CCC21 and Value Innovation were based on the concept that production materials could be halved because they amounted to waste, those initiatives should be discarded. Ideally, Toyota should utilize 100% of the materials that it used prior to CCC21, when all of its quality issues began. The cost-benefit analysis of
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