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The purpose of the Volkswagen Company is to distribute the Company’s automobiles, accessories and the commercial vehicles in the market to provide service to the represented branded products, ensuring quality service to attain customer satisfaction and establish a lasting company loyalty of the customers and partners in the service and sales organizational network. The Volkswagen Company has a distinct Code of Ethics that represents the rules and values of conduct anticipated of the Company (Carbo, 2007). The Company undertakes measures to promote the understanding of the concepts of the Code of Ethics and enhance the compliance to these concepts.
The addressees of the Code of Ethics of the Volkswagen Company include the direct subsidiaries, contractors, characteristic suppliers, service and dealer partners, business finders and agents. Others include consultants, attorneys, auditors, directors, employees, trainees, and collaborators (Carbo, 2007). The ethics of the Volkswagen Company occur in the principles in company management, the guidelines for conduct and behavior and implementation methods.
Principles in Company Management
The principles in company management include fairness and honesty, impartiality, compliance with the basic rights of the workers, compliance with the law, compliance with the company regulations, protection of the job, safety and health, environmental protection, privacy and security (Carbo, 2007).
The Volkswagen Company ensures that every individual involved in the operations of the company follow the principles of fairness and honesty. All these individuals have to operate in conformity with these principles. The Company prohibits fraudulent actions and activities, corruption, violation of the law, favoritism and bribery (Carbo, 2007).
The Volkswagen Company also avoids all forms of discrimination based on gender, age, religious beliefs, political views, health conditions or sexual orientation against all its stakeholders in conducting its operations in business. The company also respects the human rights, promotes the observance of these rights in the organization and acts in accordance with the requirements of the International Labor Organization (Haynes, J. H, 2009). The company acknowledges the basic rights of its employees in establishing labor representatives and trade unions.
The Volkswagen Company ensures that it operates in compliance with the existent laws and regulations. Moreover, the company ensures that all its addressees perform their duties in complete and full compliance with these laws and regulations. The Company also ensures that it acts in compliance with its regulations. In order to do so, the company ensures strives to ensure the accuracy in its extraordinary transactions and accounting entries (Haynes, J. H, 2009). The company management ensures that there is congruence, consistency, legitimacy, verification, authorization and reporting of every deal and transaction.
Guidelines for Conduct and Behavior
The guidelines for the conduct and behavior include the customers, official distribution network and industry associations, carmakers, suppliers and business partners and the employees (Haynes, J. H, 2009). Under the employees, ethics include equal opportunities, respect, and co-operation, developing and training human resources, management, confidentiality and handling of private information. Others include conflicts of interests, duties of the employees, handling of the company, gifts for the employees and institutions for public administration (Haynes, J. H, 2009). There are also other guidelines under the employees, which include political organizations and labor unions, sources of information and the mass media, and non-profit associations.
Implementation
The Volkswagen Company has elaborate measures of implementing its Code of Ethics. These measures include vigilance bodies, providing access to the Company’s Code of Ethics, reporting of violations, administering of penalties in case of the violations and amendments (Haynes, J. H, 2009).
References
Carbo, T. (2007). Understanding Information Ethics and Policy: Integrating Ethical Reflection and Critical Thinking into Policy Development.
Haynes, J. H. (2009). Volkswagen. Yeovil: Haynes.
