Two years after clearing the air over “Dieselgate” in a Q&A at Compliance Week’s National Conference in Washington, D.C., Volkswagen board member responsible for integrity and legal affairs Hiltrud Werner sat down with us again to discuss the end of the company’s three-year, court-mandated compliance monitorship; lessons learned from the experience; and whether she believes the toxic culture at the company has been successfully expelled:
Q. Looking back at where Volkswagen was in 2018 when we last spoke, how has the culture changed since then?
Werner: In 2018, we were really in the eye of the storm. We were at the beginning of getting our processes and procedures and adequate internal controls established. We just had finished our new code of conduct—the first one in the history of Volkswagen that is valid group wide for all 670,000 employees.
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