PART A: literature review on the Ethical Leadership ‘perspective’ Case Study on “Volkswagen ‘Dieselgate’ crisis”.

This work is 2 Parts:  Part A – 1500 AND Part B – 3,500 (this Part B will build upon Part A)
 
NOW COMPLETING PART A
1500 words on literature review on the Ethical Leadership ‘perspective’ Case Study
(Please use only valid literature that comes from a variety of sources: textbooks; journal articles, peer reviewed journals. Do not use blog or thesis or dissertation as reference)
Case Study:
This is a case study-based literature review on the ‘perspective’ on “Volkswagen ‘Dieselgate’ crisis”.
Please note: A brief overview of this Volkswagen ‘Dieselgate’ crisis, from media sources, is provided to you. The case details provided will not and is not enough at all for this task to do. Please dig up more details of the chosen case yourself which will guide you to develop an excellent perspective on Volkswagen ‘Dieselgate’ crisis.
CASE A: VOLKSWAGEN DIESEL EMISSIONS SCANDAL
From BBC News (10 December 2015) Volkswagen the scandal explained : In September 2015, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) found that many VW cars being sold in America had a “defeat device” – or software – in diesel engines that could detect when they were being tested, changing the performance accordingly to improve results. The German car giant has since admitted cheating emissions tests in the US.
VW has had a major push to sell diesel cars in the US, backed by a huge marketing campaign trumpeting its cars’ low emissions. The EPA’s findings cover 482,000 cars in the US only, including the VW-manufactured Audi A3, and the VW models Jetta, Beetle, Golf and Passat. But VW has admitted that about 11 million cars worldwide, including eight million in Europe, are fitted with the so-called “defeat device”.
The company has also been accused by the EPA of modifying software on the 3 litre diesel engines fitted to some Porsche and Audi as well as VW models. VW has denied the claims, which affect at least 10,000 vehicles.
In November, VW said it had found “irregularities” in tests to measure carbon dioxide emissions levels that could affect about 800,000 cars in Europe – including petrol vehicles. However, in December it said that following investigations, it had established that this only affected about 36,000 of the cars it produces each year. (see link below for full story) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-34324772
Volkswagen Fined 1bn Euros by German Prosecutors:
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/jun/13/vw-fined-1bn-german-court-dieselscandal
How Volkswagen tried to cover up the emissions scandal (BBC news, 05 May 2018) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-44005844
Only 3 web based news links provided. Please use google scholar and/or BU Library databases to find more information on scholarly articles on this debacle. Also, use multiple news and current affairs sources to throw more light on the scandal.
(a) You need to view the case from the perspective of ‘Ethical Leadership’.
(b) You need to choose theoretical perspective you wish to use as ‘lenses’ to view your case
(c) You need to explain critically the relevant details of the case; providing academic justification for choosing the perspective you have adopted
(d) Please use headings and sub-headings in the write up and write this assignment in the third person (i.e. you do not use ‘I’ or ‘we’).
 
Answer the following:

1. You need to explore leadership theories and followership concepts.
2. Critique the nature of leadership and distinguish between leadership and management.
3. You need to consider the nature of leadership, leadership versus management, power, politics and conflict, and various traditional and contemporary models and perspectives of leadership.
4. You need to discuss contextual issues such as the impact of the global business context, gender, ethics, diversity and cross-cultural aspects of leadership.
5. Identify and critically evaluate the major theoretical approaches to leadership and discuss how these can be applied in practice with reference to leader power and influence.
6. Demonstrate a critical appreciation of the practical and theoretical aspects of leadership in global contexts.
7. Critically analyse the ethical, organisational, social and environmental challenges and constraints faced by today’s global organisations and their implications for future leadership practices.
8. You need to provide recommendations for the future. Analyse, using ONLY secondary data and the literature used and present

 
You can follow this pattern – Please use headings and sub-headings in the write up and write this assignment in the third person (i.e. you do not use ‘I’ or ‘we’).
 
Introduction:

• Introduce the academic perspective you have chosen
• justify why this perspective is important, interesting and relevant to use to study the case you have chosen and then
• There is no need to provide details of the chosen case yet. It is sufficient at this stage to indicate which case you have chosen and what academic perspective you will use as ‘lenses’ to study it

 
Literature review:

• Undertake thorough and critical literature review using valid sources
• Use seminal articles as well as recent developments of academic research in the extant field
• This section will highlight what would potentially be your academic contribution of the entire study

 
Conclusion:

• What are the key findings from the literature and what do they guide you towards, in terms of using the literature to study your case at hand.
• Outline the next steps you will undertake to engage in the case study for Part B
• Use mind maps/diagrammatic representation/ flowcharts etc. to show the reader how the project will progress.

 
(please note: Wikipedia/blogs, thesis/dissertation are not valid sources of information; you may, however, refer to practitioner type of articles and/or news if relevant)
 
Remember, this Part A task of 1,500 will be use for the Part B task of 3,500 words.

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