Small Group Essentials: 10 Keys to Unlock Your Group's Potential

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Volkswagen has created an environmental policy that sets out guidelines for environmental decision-making, for the management of projects and for theGroup’s environmental stewardship. Thus, parameters are set for the conduct and working methods of management and staff in five areas: management behavior, compliance, environmental protection, collaboration with stakeholders and continuous improvement. The materiality process is used to identify and evaluate the most important sustainability issues for the Group. The decisive factors here are the impact on the environment and society, stakeholder expectations, the business model of VolkswagenAG and compliance with legal provisions and internationally established reporting standards.

Integrity and compliance are major priorities in the Volkswagen Group. Marking the end of the Monitorship, the Chairman of the VolkswagenAG Board of Management Herbert Diess said: “The end of the Monitorship is not the end of our journey. I am committed to the continuous improvement of our organization and its culture, and so are all my Board of Management colleagues. This mindset is essential to our ambition of making safer and more intelligent zero-emission vehicles for today’s customers and for generations to come.” Every employment contract refers to the Code of Conduct and commits the employee to comply with it. Regular training is intended to increase its efficacy. The Code of Conduct is also taken into account when calculating their variable, performance-related remuneration, which is set as part of the employee appraisals. Members of the higher levels of management are annually certified on the Code of Conduct. They confirm that they will comply with the Code of Conduct and undertake to report any serious regulatory violations. 3. Integrity Program The findings were used in the reporting year in a structured follow-up process to derive and implement improvement measures together with the respected departments. To implement the transformation with a holistic approach and run our business responsibly along the value chain, we prioritized four focus areas that are essential for our core business.Sustainability means maintaining intact environmental, social and economic systems with long-term viability at a global, regional and local level. The Volkswagen Group can influence these systems in various ways and actively takes responsibility to make a contribution to their sustainability. We have thus developed a sustainable style of company management and put in place the necessary management structures.

Once you have your goal, it’s time to choose the right people to participate in the focus group. Define your audience We are also driving large-scale cultural change to achieve greater openness and transparency in line with our corporate strategy. The seven Volkswagen Group Essentials define the shared underlying values and the foundation for cultural change across all of the brands and companies: Internal employer attractiveness. This indicator is determined by asking respondents, as part of the opinion survey, whether they perceive the respective company as an attractive employer. The target for 2025 is 89.1 out of a possible total of 100 index points. A score of 88.2 index points was achieved in the reporting period, contrasting with 85.6 points in the previous year. The scope of this survey extends beyond the brands that manufacture passenger cars. An exemplary corporate culture creates an open work environment that is characterized by mutual trust and collaboration.The integrity program is designed to reinforce the culture of integrity. The most important instruments in this program include dialogue-oriented communication measures and event formats. These communicate to employees the importance of integrity and motivate employees to behave with integrity even in the face of external pressure. Associated actions include encouraging a culture of handling mistakes constructively, more transparency in taking decisions and a greater willingness to discuss mistakes and risks openly. 4. Risk Management and Internal Controls For the VolkswagenGroup’s lasting success, we use forward-looking risk management and a uniformGroup-wide framework based on the compliance management system. This includes:

When deciding on the goal of your focus group, use the 4Ps of marketing as a starting point. It will help you focus on specific areas of your business to explore and learn more about—from your audience’s perspective: The most traditional system (shown below) uses group inheritance, starting with new players at the top, and owners on the bottom. To help you figure out how to run a focus group, we’re going to take a deep dive into three main areas on how to: The VolkswagenGroup has established aGroup-wide sustainability management. The related structures, processes and responsibilities are codified in a specificGroup policy. We view sustainability management as a continuous improvement process. The core elements include assumption of cross-functional overall responsibility for sustainability by the Chair of the Board of Management of VolkswagenAG, specification of the competence of the responsible Board members for specific sustainability management concepts and implementation of theGroup Sustainability Steering Committee as a top management committee. The members of this steering committee include managers from central Board of Management business areas andGroup divisions as well as representatives from the brands and theGroup Works Council. The steering committee defines concrete strategic goals and programs, establishes measures for uniform further development of sustainability management across divisions, brands and regions and decides on fundamental sustainability issues. The office of theGroup Sustainability Steering Committee is the responsibility of theGroup’s Sustainability function. Strategic stakeholder managementThe first step for running a successful focus group is to have a clear goal or objective. Are you trying to learn more about how people use your product? Are you trying to solve a product issue? Do you want to learn more about the customer’s experience? On smaller servers you might end up merging the moderator and admin rolls, but most people will have different opinions when it comes to which powers the admin should receive access to, and which powers moderators should receive as well. The product compliance management system (PCMS) shall ensure that our products comply with the legal and regulatory requirements of the exporting and importing country, external standards and contractually agreed customer requirements, as well as internal standards and externally communicated voluntary commitments throughout their life cycle. We have defined clear roles and responsibilities for our PCMS with regard to design, implementation and monitoring. 10. Environmental compliance