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Assignment of Business Ethics

   

Added on  2020-03-23

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Running head: BUSINESS ETHICSBusiness EthicsName of the StudentsName of the UniversityAuthor Note

1BUSINESS ETHICSVolkswagen Diesel ScandalThe Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) found that several Volkswagen Cars hadinstalled software that was designed to cheat emission tests. The software known as ‘defeatdevice’ was capable of detecting that a vehicle was being tested and when they were beingtested, the software would reduce the amount of nitrogen oxide emission. Such a conductamounts to an unethical as well as an extraordinarily deceitful conduct (Strittmatter and Lechner2017). A scandal of this magnitude indicates a systemic disrespect for the conduct at differentlevels of organization (Jung and Park 2017). The scandal may have resulted from either one ormore of the following factors. Firstly, the organization have implemented behavioral normswhich would seem to be inappropriate for those outside the organization but the same wouldappear to be acceptable for those working in the organization. Secondly, the CEO of VW, Martin Winterkorn announced that a small group of softwareengineers had embedded this device in the care and that he was completely unaware of thisconduct as it was not a corporate decision (Hoekman 2016). It is not sufficient for the mainactors or the leaders of the company to claim that they were not involved or did not have anyknowledge about such conduct, instead they should have questioned themselves that should theyhave known about this conduct, the answer for which is definitely ‘yes’.Thirdly, the centre of focus was on the fulfillment of the goals and targets of the companyat the cost of other priorities. Their commitment to attain their goals and meet the companytargets created an environment where the ends must justify the means, even if such meansinvolves immoral conduct. Fourthly, the incentives would have acted as an encouragement for

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