The sociological imagination and legal ethics

Autor:	Robert Eli Rosen
Rok vydání:	2016
Předmět:	Value (ethics) media_common.quotation_subject Product liability Blame Philosophy Legal ethics Law Accountability Sociological imagination Bureaucracy Sociology Settlement (litigation) media_common
Zdroj:	Legal Ethics. 19:97-111
ISSN:	1757-8450 1460-728X
DOI:	10.1080/1460728x.2016.1189116
Popis:	For ten years, General Motors (GM) denied that an ignition switch that could easily be turned to ‘Off’ constituted a safety defect. Accidents, deaths and injuries resulted. Despite many, many suits against GM, the problem remained uncorrected. The explanations that have been proffered are interrogated in this article and others are suggested. It concludes that a bureaucratic legal department is partly to blame, and criticises how the legal department evaluated cases by their settlement value. It criticises GM’s culture of blaming drivers for accidents. It concludes that the main problem at GM was not bureaucracy, but poor organisation of team management. GM was not organised for accountability without hierarchy. The article suggests that lawyers can play a key role in improving corporate decision making.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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