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If I were an employee of Volkswagen either in the legal office or within the engineering department I would have paid more attention to what was discussed about what we were was going to be designed verses what was being implemented. I believe that sometimes as employees we have a blind eye to what is happening around us. Most times it is due to not wanting to be “a tattle teller” but in all honesty we are just as much a part of the problem as the ones who made the decision to conspire to change the test that the government agencies require. This speaks on one’s integrity and the loyalty they offer to the company they work for and themselves as individuals. It makes me questions the person I could be to be a part of something I am sure was not right. As a loyal employee, sometimes it is our job to bring things to higher management’s attention. We must know that you have to have the place you work in a higher standing in our minds. With this, I mean that I have to know that whatever decisions I make and do effect the company I work for in many ways. I honestly believe that if the whole company thinks about themselves when making sounds decisions about the company, then that speaks of character of oneself. It makes senses that companies do not know everything about their employees, which is why I believe that blame falls on everyone. This includes the employees, low management, higher management, and the legal team. It appears no one had the companies’ best interest at heart.

Sometimes we can help stop a problem before it creates the scandals that could cause the company bad press. In the Old Testament bible, 1 Kings 9:4-5, it states and I quote “And as for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked with integrity of heart and uprightness, doing according to all that I have commanded you, and keeping my statues and rules then I will establish your royal throne over Israel forever as I promised David your father, saying, “You shall not lack a man on the throne of Israel”.

Also in the Old Testament in Proverbs 28:18 it says and I quote “Whoever walks in integrity will be delivered, but he who is crooked in his ways will suddenly fall.

When I think of these bible verses and how they tie in to how the employees did not make sure that everything they did represented Volkswagen, they created the company to be publicly humiliated. This has caused the customers to be angry and possibly feeling like they were misled to believe that this product they are purchasing was what was needed to pass government approval.

As the CEO of the diesel division of Volkswagen, I would have responded by being honest about as much as I know was going on. By allowing the public to know what is happening throughout this terrible process it helps your customers know that the situation is very much a problem, but it is one that you are not trying to shield them from or to hide. There is no guarantee that this will prevent future incidents, but it makes the customers more knowledgeable about what is going on and that if there was to be any future problems that Volkswagen would let their customers and the public know and that it would not be any shady business going on. Sometimes telling the truth saves a lot of unnecessary lawsuits and public bashing.

However I do believe that there will always be public bashing because you can please everyone. In situations like this with such a reputable company that more people have a hard time believing that they did not know what is going on with the things they manufacture and sell to the public. It is even harder to believe that the lawyers had no knowledge of what is happening.

Even if no one was certain of what was happening then you would believe that someone was checking behind someone that was under them in the management chain.

Even as I read this article, I am still wondering what happened that it got this far passed everyone that is higher up? How it was not tested over and over again to make sure that this product was designed just as Volkswagen had in mind. I am certain that someone created the design and gave this to the employees to implement. In doing this, would mean that they would follow up and make sure that it was designed the correct and efficient way it was set in the minds to be.

When I think of this, I think of the bible verse in New International Version, 2 Peter 2:21 which states and I quote “ It would have been better for them to have known the way of righteousness, than to have known it and then to turn their back s on the sacred command that was passed on to them”.

I believe that we may all act as if we do not know things that can cause harm to self and others.

The attorneys should have been paid more attention and demanded more information. Whether they knew what was happening or not they should have asked questions and when the product was ready they should have asked for questions that the government would ask or be looking for in this product they were creating.

I believe being knowledgeable in all areas makes a person a more valuable to the company. When you do research and not just wait for someone to bring information to you, it happens to speaks of your character. Even attorneys have to have character, morals, values and integrity to the ones they work for. You must be able to trust the ones you are getting legal advice from on how to best run your business. Without this, you may as well be guessing at what is best and running your company to the best of your abilities.

Cited/ Sources

http://www.abajournal.com/legalrebels/article/volkswagen_where_were_the_lawyers/

Old Testament bible, 1 Kings 9:4-5; “And as for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked with integrity of heart and uprightness, doing according to all that I have commanded you, and keeping my statues and rules then I will establish your royal throne over Israel forever as I promised David your father, saying, “You shall not lack a man on the throne of Israel”.

Old Testament in Proverbs 28:18; “Whoever walks in integrity will be delivered, but he who is crooked in his ways will suddenly fall.

New International Version, 2 Peter 2:21; “It would have been better for them to have known the way of righteousness, than to have known it and then to turn their back s on the sacred command that was passed on to them”.