Volkswagen Scandal Case: Impact, Role of CEO and Department, Steps for Improvement

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VOLKSWAGEN
Scandal Case
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3/7/2019

VOLKSWAGEN SCANDAL CASE 1
Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Scandal Case of Volkswagen...........................................................................................................2
Impact of Issues...............................................................................................................................3
Role of CEO....................................................................................................................................3
Role of Department..........................................................................................................................4
Steps for improvement.....................................................................................................................5
Conclusion and Recommendations..................................................................................................6
References........................................................................................................................................7

VOLKSWAGEN SCANDAL CASE 2
Introduction
Since the industrial revolution, the environment is considered as the main victim for the human
actions. The environment is greatly affected by the activities of human. Moreover, the companies
also take contribution in polluting the environment at greater level. As their ignorance towards
the environment cause the pollution in the environment that affected the atmosphere at the global
level (Dyllick and Muff, 2016). One of the leading companies Volkswagen founded culpable in
the case of secretion of diesel cars in the year 2009. Volkswagen dishonored the pace of
emission that been permitted by the government since the year 2009. The huge volume of
emanation in the situation exaggerated the fitness of human being in Europe and US (Jung,
Chilton and Valero, 2017).
In the subsequent report there will be thorough discussion on the initiate taken by CEO of the
company in dealing with such crises of the company as well as other steps taken by them to
regain the consumers trust.
Scandal Case of Volkswagen
Volkswagen is one of the largest manufacturing companies in the global market. The company
was trying to enter in the US market however; their vehicles did not meet the standards of
emission that were quiet higher as companies to the normal requirement by the government of
the country (Clemente and Gabbioneta, 2017). It is indicated that the company has installed
software in their diesel vehicles that were sold since 2009, in the country US cheats the test of
emission by reporting the lower figures. Volkswagen was appearing to contain the cutthroat
benefit against their rivals as they were glance to be one of the major car manufacturers in the
global market by the year 2018. Therefore, once they have comprehend that their goals was
nearly all of the likely to be unsuccessful then they have started to gaze for the substitute to help
the in accomplishing their goals (Mansouri, 2016). The company has started using the “defeat
device” software. They have used such software in more than 10 million cars at the global and
out of which approximately 500,000 were sold in the US since 2009. The agency of
Environmental Protection detect the trounce device software in few models of Volkswagen cars.
Following such uncovering of the check setting, it directly connected with the settings of