There are several differences in the management and managerial practices of these four countries, as Toyota in every country is managed according to the cultural practices. The Japanese market is effectively managing the kaizen, JIT and lean production for the Toyota but there are differences in managing the HRM practices. As in the UK market, the management techniques of the JIT and Kaizen system is based on the encouraging the flexibility and adaptability by amazing the local cultural forces. There is more focus on the desire of the market and there is quality control in the work standards. Consequently, there are differences in Toyota standard operation because the production line of each company effectively focused on the needs of quality assurance. The management practices of the Toyota in South Africa is concerned about the better management of the reputation for superior quality but there are still issues in techniques of the just-in-time, however, South Africa has high inflation rate; therefore, the management practices are not that fast like the practices in US or Japan (Akdeniz, 2015).

National culture and management practices

Every country is following the national culture, it is analyzed through the assessment that every country is using the own cultural patterns in Toyota in order to sell the vehicle effectively. It could be noticed thus, Japan stood first in managing the management practices according to the culture because there are better management and evaluation of the strategies, US is adopting the techniques in this way, from Japan (Monden, 2011).

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