{"id":25092,"date":"2015-03-05T00:53:13","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T23:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/?p=25092"},"modified":"2015-03-05T01:03:08","modified_gmt":"2015-03-05T00:03:08","slug":"a-woman-rises-at-toyota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/a-woman-rises-at-toyota\/","title":{"rendered":"A Woman Rises at Toyota"},"content":{"rendered":"

Benjamin Snyder writes: Automaker Toyota has promoted American Julie Hamp, the current head of communications for North America, to managing officer. She\u2019ll be the highest ranking woman in Toyota\u2019s 77-year history. The move is part of a broader push for diversity among Toyota\u2019s executive ranks as part of a restructuring. The company\u2019s leadership culture has been made up mostly of Japanese men. \u201cToyota has realized that they\u2019re not a Japanese carmaker, they\u2019re a world carmaker,\u201d Edwin Merner, president of Atlantis Investment Research in Tokyo, told Bloomberg. \u201cIf they\u2019re going to understand overseas markets and plan, design and build cars, then they have to have people who have a good understanding of those markets.<\/p>\n

Toyota characterized the moves this way in a statement:<\/p>\n

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By appointing talented people from affiliates outside Japan to executive positions, Toyota aims to foster innovation by enabling people from many different backgrounds to contribute and provide input.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The once-untouchable auto firm has had a rough few years. A seemingly unending recall crisis partly dinged the company\u2019s reputation and the global recession hurt sales. But the firm\u2019s fortunes have started to turn around recently.<\/p>\n

February sales in the U.S. surged ahead 12.1%, compared to the same month last year. And its Lexus luxury division is making gains against European competitors: Last month marked the fourth straight month of record new Lexus sales, according to the company. Lexus is ranked as the industry\u2019s top brand.<\/p>\n

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