[SystemSafety] GM?s hit and run: How a lawyer, mechanic, and engineer blew open the worst auto scandal in history

[Chuck_Petras at selinc.com]

A sad commentary on corporate culture.

Still daily I have to face this on the highway...

"There remains, however, a clear and present danger. Slightly more than a 
million of the 2.6 million recalled GM cars have been brought in for 
repairs, with a third of them belonging to drivers with children. This is 
a serious, potentially deadly problem. In March, there was a death linked 
to the faulty ignition switch in a car that had already been recalled, but 
GM didn?t have the parts in stock yet."

http://pando.com/2014/10/18/gms-hit-and-run-how-a-lawyer-mechanic-and-engineer-blew-the-lid-off-the-worst-auto-scandal-in-history/

"?Over a decade,? the 315-page report stated, ?GM personnel failed to 
search for, share, or gather knowledge and that failure had serious 
consequences. There are multiple components to these failures, involving 
individual mistakes, organizational dysfunction, and systems inaccessible 
to some and impenetrable to many.?
 
"The report mentions the ?GM Nod,? which the company?s newish CEO, Mary 
Barra, explained was a staple of GM managers, nodding in agreement at 
steps that should be taken then doing nothing, and the ?GM Salute?: where 
employees would sit through meetings with their arms folded, as if to say 
responsibility lay with anyone else but themselves."


Chuck Petras, PE**
Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc
Pullman, WA  99163  USA
http://www.selinc.com
Tel: +1.509.332.1890

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