Analyze the motivational factors that promote cheating in NASCAR I believe that the largest motivational factor of any NASCAR team owner, crew member, or driver is that of winning. Each team represents not only a number on the side of a car but the entire organization, the sponsors, the driver, the crew chief, their crew and their families. NASCAR is big into the family values and your team is your family; you never let your family down. To win a race at any track is to bring honor to your team, revenue to your sponsors, and notoriety to your name.
To win for oneself may not be enough motivation to cause a driver to cheat; however, most often times the driver is not the one that sets up the car, which is the crew and crew chief’s duty. Drivers can aide in the facilitation of cheating by requesting that their car be tweaked to their liking, how this is done however is the crew’s job. To win for a cause or for a team gives more pressure to win because there are other people counting on your success.
Other motivational factors that promote cheating within NASCAR are that everyone knows everyone cheats. Each and every team in the NASCAR garage has tried and tested the very vague rules of the governing body, sometimes they get caught and others they don’t. To the teams it is worth a chance to try and get away with a tweak that may not be entirely within the rule book and get that little bit of an edge than to finish last on race day. The more lenient the attitude is towards cheating the more cheating that goes on (Smith, Davy, Rosenberg, & Haight).

Discuss three aspects of the organizational culture at NASCAR that contribute to unethical behavior Culture is a powerful element that shapes your work environment, your work relationships, and your work processes; it is like personality and is made up of values, beliefs, underlying assumptions, interest, experiences, upbringing, and habits that create a person’s behavior. Behavioral culture is made up of all of the life experiences each employee brings to the organization (Heathfield, 2012)
Tone at the top is where the corporation’s behavioral culture begins. The history and origins of NASCAR facilitates a foundation of cheating. The original members of NASCAR were runners of moonshine; they built their cars to withstand the taxing duties of hauling loads of liquor through the woods and running from ATF agents who were after them in the prohibition era. The very foundation that NASCAR was built on is unethical and cheating. However, the France family has made a career out of exploiting the popularity of NASCAR with fans, sponsors, and the media. Drama between drivers, teams, and even the occasional cheating scandal always rake in more fans at races, cause feuds between fans, and drive people to watch the next race to see what is going to happen. Drama causes big business and rakes in the cash for all parties involved.
The decision making for who gets fined and nailed with cheating lies on the governing body of NASCAR, they are the sole enforcer of the rules, however each track on the NASCAR circuit has their own officials, there are some that travel with the circuit but a majority of the officials checking the cars are employees of the track, they are trained in what to look for in the cars and know what is legal and illegal. Officials are to be partial, but many times the driver that is caught cheating may not be their favorite.
The daily practices at the teams garage according to the article is that of trying to bend each and every rule possible without blatantly breaking them. Teams do this to try and get every bit of horsepower and handling out of the car in order to win. They study the rule book and find gray areas that can be bent or pushed, everyone knows not to mess with the fuel, tires, or engine, but all else is fair game. When they are caught they state that it was not clear in the rule book and appeal NASCARs decision in an unpublicized hearing, generally they win.
NASCAR facilitates cheating by not being consistent or clear with their rules. Outside of the “Big Three” rules are shoddy and not enforced regularly, only when there is a clear advantage given to the driver are they ever sanctioned. NASCAR needs to do a better job of getting the teams to understand the spirit of the rules and not just trying to find ways to get away with a few extra horsepower.
Justify your position about why you agree or disagree that “rules can’t brake cheating” at NASCAR. Constricting racers to abide by a rulebook that is as thick as an accounting textbook is not the answer to prevent cheating. By constricting racers and their teams you are not facilitating change and innovation. The best way to eliminate cheating is to get rid of many of the rules that constrict them. The more rules you have the more accusations you are going to have about everybody cheating (Something About Everything Racin'). Winning in NASCAR should be about skill, not just the drivers either. The teams should have the ability to conjure up wild ideas about how to make their cars better, faster, and handle easier, as long as it is safe for the driver and the fans, let it go. This shows who the best team is and not just the best driver or the best car or who managed their tires better this Sunday.
Devise methods to address the cheating problem at NASCAR
The only way that I see to stop cheating in NASCAR is if NASCAR does what it was originally formed to do. That is to use its full authority to make sure that everyone conforms to the rules set forth by the governing body in the rule book. NASCAR needs to park cars for races, not just fine them and suspend the crew chief. If you’re caught with an illegal part on your car the entire team goes home for a minimum of one race. That includes the driver, crew, car and transporter (RacingWin, 2012). Once the teams see that NASCAR means business the funny business will stop and only legitimate race cars will be presented at the inspection points. This also means that the inspectors will have to do their jobs with no wavering position. It is belief in the garage and at team headquarters that “It’s our job to cheat. It’s NASCAR’s job to catch us” and this way of thinking needs to be curved. Teams that continually violate the rules need to be suspended for not just one race but for more; the more you cheat the longer you get suspended until you are out for a season or two. NASCAR needs to snap the proverbial whip and show that they mean business. Ethics and conformity are evil necessity in an environment of competition, right now NASCAR has neither.

Works Cited
Heathfield, S. M. (2012). Culture: Your Environment for People at Work. The New York Times Company.
RacingWin. (2012). How to stop cheating in NASCAR. Retrieved from RacingWin: http://racingwin.com/cheating-in-nascar/
Smith, K. J., Davy, J. A., Rosenberg, D. L., & Haight, G. T. (n.d.). THE ROLE OF MOTIVATION AND ATTITUDE ON CHEATING.
Something About Everything Racin'. (n.d.). Retrieved from jcs-group: http://wwwl.jcs-group.com/racin/rules/saturday.html