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But you can send the executives who designed or oversaw a reward and evaluation schema that incentived this kind of behavior. Instead, we seem pretty comfortab
by shkkmo 8y ago
But you can send the executives who designed or oversaw a reward and evaluation schema that incentived this kind of behavior.
Instead, we seem pretty comfortable with passing off the responsibility to rank and file employees / middle managers while the majority of the benefits from the bad behavior accrue to the executives and shareholders.
Edit: I get that the criminal intent needed under our current laws means that those charges may not be feasible. That just means we need new laws that hold Executives and Managers criminally responsible for the criminal actions of their subordinates that are committed as part of their work duties.
- nerdponx 8y agoI fully support this. If you, a manager, are aware of illegal activity within your organization and do not take steps to stop it, you are as responsible as the individuals doing the illegal activity.
- shkkmo 8y agoI think more than that is required. I think that they should be held liable even if they do not know. I think it should be their responsibility to to find out and to design corporate structures that don't incentive and conceal illegal activity by their subordinates.
- nerdponx 8y agoThat's fair, although at a certain point (e.g. international holding company with several large subsidiaries) it becomes impossible to police every activity by every department of every subsidiary.