- 04 Apr, 2021
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Business Ethics
Each Discussion Board Forum will be completed. Each thread must be at least 1,000 words and will analyze a provided case study. You will submit your thread through the SafeAssign link to check for plagiarism.
You must support your assertions with a minimum of 3 scholarly sources other than the course textbook and materials. Each source must be cited in current APA format. Each thread must include both full citations in a reference list at the end of each post, and short-form in-text citations. Acceptable sources include books, legal and business journals, legal cases, the law (cases, statutes, regulations, etc.), the Bible, biblical commentary, etc. Dictionaries and other web sources that lack scholarly support are not acceptable sources.
A well-developed, complete analysis of the situation, from a spiritual perspective, requires more than simply adding a verse from the Bible to the post. Each thread will include at least 2 separate verses from Scripture, quoted and applied as an integral part of your discussion of the applicable issues in the context of a biblical worldview. Each reply will include at least 1 Scripture verse integrated in the same manner.
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 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 (2015) questions the role that several groups within the company played in the scandal, most notably the company’s lawyers and engineers. See
http://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?