Topic:Business EthicsThread Prompt:Rarely does one individual’s decision or action create an ethical...

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Topic:Business EthicsThread Prompt:Rarely does one individual’s decision or action create an ethical crisis entirely by itself. More often, someone’s unethical or illegal idea is adopted by other members of the company, and the problem grows within the organization until it erupts in headlines, bad publicity, and sometimes criminal penalties. After the fact, the questions always arise: How did that happen? Didn't anyone know it was going on? Why didn't someone stop it?Recently, Volkswagen found itself in just such a position, when it was discovered that the software in the company’s diesel vehicles had been programmed to provide false data to regulators regarding the level of emissions produced by the cars.In his article “Volkswagen: Where Were the Lawyers?” Lippe XXXXXXXXXXquestions the role that several groups within the company played in the scandal, most notably the company’s lawyers and engineers. Seehttp://www.abajournal.com/legalrebels/article/volkswagen_where_were_the_lawyers/.Review this situation from legal, spiritual, and ethical perspectives. Fully explain the following:As an employee or a manager in either the legal office or the engineering department, how would you have prevented this incident?As the CEO of the diesel division of Volkswagen, how would you have responded when the situation became public? How would this response prevent future incidents?Lippe, P. (2015, October 13). Volkswagen: Where were the lawyers?ABA Journal. Retrieved from http://www.abajournal.com/legalrebels/article/volkswagen_where_were_the_lawyers/

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1. The best way to have prevented the incident as an employee in the engineering or legal department would have to ensure that the lawyers were aware of the situation, and the damage that a leak of the information would cause. Most customers who buy Volkswagen cars would do so because of the trust that they in the company, and this trust could have drastically been affected by the leak of the news. Even from a legal perspective, it would have resulted in legal suits, and several cases against the company from governments of the countries where the cars had been sold (Li, McMurray, Xue, Liu & Sy, 2018). It might also have resulted in the company becoming bankrupt due to the legal fines. Thus, the best way to have prevented this incident would have to inform the legal department about the issue, and to find a way by which the issue can be resolved, so that there would be minimum damage to the company (Lippe, 2015).

Topic: Business Ethics Thread Prompt: Rarely does one individual’s decision or action create an ethical crisis entirely by itself. More often, someone’s unethical or illegal idea is adopted by other...

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