Vw Corporate Culture

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Gap 3: Corporate Governance and Culture.

Within VW it is not clear who approved the fitting of the “defeat device” software and had awareness of its usage at this stage. It has been insinuated that the illicit software could have been connected since 2008, just before VW presented its new creation of “clean diesel” cars to the US market. A number of executives, managers and engineers have been provisionally suspended by VW as part of its own internal examination, involving some board-level executives at VW branches. Apart from the NOx emissions scandal, VW engineers have confessed to making up certain carbon-dioxide and fuel consumption numbers. The engineers declared to have influenced the data as a result of supposed “unreasonable demands”
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• Evaluating: The newly generated policies needs to reviewed after every two years and has to be made mandatory for all the individuals who all are part of Volkswagen AG and Volkswagen Group. Also, Volkswagen should also implement “Sustainability Balance Scorecard” which can align business activities to the vision and strategy of the organization, improve internal and external communications and monitor organization performance against the strategic goals.

• Actions to solve the outcomes: If any of the individuals of Volkswagen whether it’s a member of Top management or Supervisory board or an employee works illegally and does not follow the specified policies, law and regulation, he or she should be brought under the notice of the higher authority and anti-corruption squad who will enquire about the flaws that has occurred and take action against them which includes immediate termination from the position and from all the

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