Many organizations find themselves in a recurring cycle of a game of proverbial whack-a-mole in trying to constantly identify and mitigate unsafe conditions and behaviors while both consistently reappear. Could it be that these organizations are inadvertently creating a culture that possibly allows or even encourages this? If organizations set expectations, why would anyone dare not follow them?
The situation resembles the scene in “A Few Good Men” where Tom Cruise chastises Jack Nicholson as to his supposed ability to command authority while Marines haze and assault each other. Could it be that, as in that particular film, the problem is manifested from within and not from a supposed rogue element?1 Is the issue that employees and leaders are simply going rogue or that the organization itself is balking on its own supposed safety culture?