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In 2015, Volkswagen incurred a problematic situation that left people asking the question, “Where were the Lawyers?” Volkswagen’s sales were spiraling out of control in crucial markets such as China and Brazil, which eventually lead to a reputation damage for the company. Likewise, the emissions testing catastrophe only made matters worse. Over 11 million of Volkswagen’s diesel cars worldwide were equipped with illegal software, used to cheat on emissions testing, posing a more serious threat to the environment as well as endangering human life. Specifically, this paper will discuss how I as an employee or manger would have prevented the incident and as a CEO, how I would have responded once the issue became public as well as to

Firstly, from the view of company, Volkswagen scandal is result from the misuse of CSR that the company regarded it as a marketing tool. Although Volkswagen promised to persuade CSR as their corporation culture, the reality turns out to be opposite. Volkswagen equipped defeat devices on cars deliberately to pass environmental tasks and actually the defeat device emitted nitrogen oxide approximately 40 times of standard (Dans, 2015). This behaviour can be explained as "green-washing", which means the real performance is different from the test results (Eric, 2015). The motivation of deception largely depends on corporation’s aggressive goal called “Strategy 2018” , which aim to increase annual sales to ten million cars by 2018 (Volkswagen, 2014). Therefore, Volkswagen needs to lower the price to be competitive to its competitors and one task is to reduce cost of production. Volkswagen used CSR concept to cover unethical actions. It demonstrates that Volkswagen focused on persuading the short-term target rather than its customers, long-term reputation and environment (Bansal, King & Seijts,

I don't find Mueller's statement credible. According to Mueller, there was a technology problem but there was no fault in technology. They had intentionally inserted the device to pass the test. Mueller even agreed the next day that he had mishandled the situation and did admit the violation. Mueller stated that they misinterpreted the American law and that the software solutions weren't compatible with the American law. These statements are clearly incorrect because not that the software installed was not compatible with the law but it was breaking the law. If they had misinterpreted the law, the emission test results would have failed and they would have figured out that they exceeded the US emission limits. Instead, software was installed

“Every person is to be in subjection to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those which exist are established by God” (Romans 13:1). This verse provides the spiritual rule, that when followed, prevents many negative incidents and their consequences. However, the engineers broke this command and made conscious decisions to design, develop, and produce vehicles that violated established law. In fact, the emissions produced were, “…as much as 40 times what is allowed by the U.S. standard defined by the Clean Air Act” (Mercuri & Neumann, 2016, p. 24).

The mistrust between the Volkswagen Company and their customers developed after the scandal associated with the incorrect emission of data and cheating of the system unfolded.  The scandal occurred on the eighteenth of September 2015 when it was found that the company had made a car with a turbo that released emission directly into the real word atmosphere. The allegations were genuine and were proved by the Environment Protection Agency in the United States (EPA) (Hotten, 2016).The chief

Volkswagen is under investigation following reports from the EPA that they had installed software into their engines that deceived emissions testers. Furthermore, engineers updated this software in 2014, claiming that they were improving the vehicles. James Liang, a senior engineer who had worked for Volkswagen for 30 years, admitted to investigators in September of 2016 that he had designed the software in question. Further investigation has revealed that this conspiracy may have involved executives of the company. It is unknown to the public whether Liang was acting under orders when he designed the software or he decided to create it on his own to meet requirements his superiors gave him. Both rule utilitarianism and Kantian duty ethics

ITP stands for Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura which is a scientific way of saying the body has an abnormally low number of platelets. These platelets are cells in the blood that help blood clot. When these cells are present in low numbers excessive bleeding and bruising often occur. A common symptom is red blotches on the skin that do not blanch. These spots are caused by bleeding underneath the skin. ITP affects both adults and children. In children, it is normally a temporary condition. In adults, the condition is often chronic. A diagnosis of ITP is a process of exclusion as similar symptoms appear in a range of other conditions including HIV and lupus. Once these conditions are ruled out, treatment begins. The first step to any sort of treatment is to speak with a physician. Only a doctor is able to diagnose ITP and specialists often work for years or decades to treat conditions such as ITP. As the condition is often chronic in adults and potentially life threatening, the most important step to recovery is to see a physician.

As a multinational corporation, the implication of the scandal determines the fate of numerous stakeholders both internal and external. Internal stakeholders comprise of the board, managers and employees while external stakeholders subsume shareholders, customers and suppliers. The economic, political and social impacts of the dishonest practices would shape the fate of Volkswagen and affect the future prospects of the automotive industry. Common shareholders whilst not involved in the day to day running of the business placed faith and belief in the firm by providing capital had suffered severe economic loss as share prices (get something for stat). Despite the callous deception in advertising the defeat device displayed no signs of disturbing vehicle performance, however, customers of Volkswagen and its subsidiary vehicles suffer from lower resale value. In addition, even though the scandal was global, European consumers were the most affected with diesel cars accounting for 41% of all European cars (Fontaras, 2016). This high percentage in respect to other nations is a result of incentives provided by the European Union for the purchase of diesel vehicles such as subsidies towards the production process resulting in lower premiums compared to petrol counterparts (Vidal, 2015) In additional with sales falling suppliers of Volkswagen would likely lose future contracts or have current contracts downgraded as less parts are required. Thus, this loss of future

The prices of Volkswagen cars is changing by the customers needs. Volkswagen has products for every type, every price, every power of engine and for every options. However the prices of Volkswagen are quite cheaper than the other components. Of course the prices are changing by the engine and the performance of cars. Each car types has different marketing strategies for presenting and specialize it in different countries. These are the countries, factory names and model Specialization You can see it in that

In today’s society we often come to many debates on several issues that go on in our world today. Recently there was an ethical debate on whether or not it is ethical to release vehicles with software that defeats emission testing by the EPA. Volkswagen is being accused of using illegal software designed to hide emissions during testing by installing cars with a software. The EPA accused Volkswagen of using the device in nearly over a half a million cars (Davenport). The cars are reportedly to have been installed with a software that had the ability to turn off the emissions controls when driving normally and turns them on when the vehicle is undergoing an emissions test. With all of these assumptions of Volkswagen cheating the emissions testing does that question their ethical corporate responsibility?

The assigned article pertains to the next step on the road to statutory enhancements to the Information System professionalism. In order to strengthen the information system profession, it is essential to increase the project success rate as well as to take effective measures to tackle information system disorder. A general maturity model can play an effective role to bring this profession in a sustainable position for the future generation. An action plan is necessary to assure that professional level of work is reserved to the information systems profession by statute. The article shows that way how a detailed maturity model for the United States can be made by following the path of the British and Canadian IT professional.

It is not hard to see that the scandal would cause a horrid blow to VW’s image. Until the incident, VW had, like many other German companies, the reputation of “German engineering” (Robertson, 2013). However, instead of using that innovation to develop diesel-fueled cars compliant with U.S. standards, it decided to try to scam its way in the market. Not only did the company admit to having 11 million cars with software intended to cheat tests (Gates, Ewing, Russell & Watkins, 2017), it also plead guilty to “destroying evidence in an elaborate cover-up” (VW Admits Emissions Cheating and Cover-up, 2017); building further distrust among its consumers.

This threat are generally considered a very low threat for the Company. Upon examining for such threats include all barriers entry such as upfront capital requirements, government and legislation policy, brand equity and the ability of distributing the product. However, Volkswagen’s biggest competition are the foreign automakers such as Honda and Toyota and etc. Vehicle emissions standards directly sparked the development and practical application of a wide range of automotive technologies that are now found throughout the global automobile marketplace(Ellison 2015).

participants contain 5 Information Technology specialists, 6 employees, 6 researchers and senior executives, 8 educators and teachers, 2 students, 3 business managers and 2 unemployed people. Also, to reflect the geographical diversity of these online collectives, we ensured a relevant representation of the Kabyle participants living in Algeria and more than ten different countries. The first contact with the participants was made via the internet. We arranged to meet with 26 participants between January 2009, and June 2011 in Algiers, Tizi-Ouzou, Vgayet, Paris, Marseille, and Montreal. We had to interview the remaining seven participants via Skype and webcams, because of limited financial and time resources. The interviews were recorded on a digital support of 20 at 40 minutes then translated and transcribed. In addition to these three techniques of collecting data, we performed statistical calculations on the data to support certain parts of the analysis.

Based on the fact that in 2009, Volkswagen sold just 213,454 cars in the US, The Board felt the North American goal was unrealistic and unachievable. Instead of over-targeting a shrinking market, The Board felt in addition to targeting the Latino market within the United States, more focus should be shifted towards emerging markets in Asia.