The Volkswagen Scandal Summary

The Volkswagen Scandal
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The Volkswagen Scandal
The Volkswagen (VW) “ethics scandal” emanated from its engineers’ actions who designed a cheat device in their diesel automobiles to evade emission tests. The computer program could alter the engine operations to attain legal emissions standards. However, within ordinary operational contexts, the vehicles released emissions forty times the required limit into the atmosphere. Since software programming experts indicated that such actions could not happen accidentally, VW received widespread disapproval for its unethical actions. The ethics scandal had extensive negative ramifications for the company’s stakeholders, including managers, the general public, investors, and customers, further exacerbating the decision’s implications on society. That said, the question of whether VW’s scandal is a case of ethical dilemma or moral temptations is essential to understand the decision. According to Rushworth Kidder’s delineation of the difference between ethical and moral temptation, it can be deduced that VW decision-makers did not view fals...