Assignment Task: After reading - How to Change a Culture Lessons from NUMMI
Please completely answer the following questions:
Q1. What do the authors mean by the "5 Why's"? How does this help change a company's culture?
Q2. Explain "It's easier to act your way to a new way of thinking than to think your way to a new way of acting?" Do you agree or disagree and why?
Q3. Identify and summarize Toyota's tenet "Respect for People". How do you think this tenet would improve your workplace? (If you don't work, think about a place where you work on activities that help/contribute to others - school, volunteering, etc.)
Q4. Summarize why the authors maintain there are essential values in problems. Do you agree or disagree and why?