“Name, blame, shame, retrain” is an often-used phrase for older ineffective paradigms of safety management and accident analysis. Dr. Rosabeth Moss Kanter of Harvard Business School phased the situation this way:
“Accountability is a favorite word to invoke when the lack of it has become so apparent.”
Kanter, 2009
The concepts of accountability, culpability and just culture are inextricably entwined. Accountability has been defined in various ways but in general with this characterization:
