Yes, that's the crunch point: But once that company takes off and is run not by the founder but by a board of directors...
Can we write a law to stop it happening? What if it's run by the founder's offspring? That's often bad news. With best wishes DESIGN IT IN! OOO Own Opinions Only www.jmwa.demon.co.uk J M Woodgate and Associates Rayleigh England Sylvae in aeternum manent. -----Original Message----- From: Ken Javor [mailto:ken.ja...@emccompliance.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2016 7:19 PM To: EMC-PSTC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG Subject: Re: [PSES] Practical ethics? -- text version Again not claiming a solution, but I see what Cortland describes as a fundamental feature of how businesses are run today in the USA (and likely elsewhere, but no direct knowledge). Businesses are founded by individuals, and those individuals, to the extent that the business represents their livelihood as well as their passion, take great pains to provide a quality product and/or service. It is in their best interest to do so, because of what they have invested in the company, and the health of the company represents their long-term self interest. But once that company takes off and is run not by the founder but by a board of directors and a CEO who is an employee of the company, then long-term considerations vanish and the actual job description of those in charge forces short-term profit maximization with no importance assigned to the long-term health of the organization. Ken Javor Phone: (256) 650-5261 > From: Cortland Richmond <k...@earthlink.net> > Reply-To: <k...@earthlink.net> > Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2016 13:52:07 -0500 > To: <EMC-PSTC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG> > Subject: Re: [PSES] Practical ethics? -- text version > > On 12/27/2016 10:39 AM, John Allen wrote: >> in the wider context, this sort of thing can place a great strain on >> the ethics of the ³guy in the middle² who understands what actually >> needs to be done and ³speaks his mind², > > Here we come to the crux of the matter. It is an organization's > corporate culture that determines how ethical it will be, and it's all > too common that organizations don't give a hoot about ethics. > > When convenience, economy, speed and the next promotion become more > important than quality, shortcuts become more common than preparing for > the work, and small lapses of ethical practice may be excused with "we > can make up for it later" -- leading to worse ones. > > At one time, statistical quality control tests were required in EMC -- > my first job was doing this for TEMPEST, VDE 0871 and FCC Part 15 -- and > this not only finds things gone wrong, it can led to interesting > telephone calls such as a Chinese factory manager screaming at me around > midnight his time, "How come you shut down my factory?!?" That one > wasn't TEMPEST -- but I've a couple of stories about that too. There's a > what, 50 years? timeline before I can tell 'em, and it won't be up for > quite a while. > > In general, no one wants to pay up front to avoid problems later -- but > I've seen the frenzy that can result from that approach. > > So, on a larger stage, has the world, after just one person wanting to > save $100 a day ended up costing maybe $100 MILLION over the long term. > > Whoops. > > https://www.rt.com/usa/332225-flint-water-crisis-failures-interview/ > > > Cortland Richmond > > - > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc > discussion list. 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