Something tells me it wasn't directly just CEO telling everybody to ignore any concern, fake safety reports. Yes he is ultimately responsible, but at 1-2 levels below him are actually more responsible for setting culture and controls in given department, something proper investigation can easily uncover.
Responsibility flows top down
Usually, but it's not exclusively concentrated in exactly one person.
I know bro it’s all good
He would need to fire at least 30% of the staff to make a difference. You can't fix the rot that started with the McDonald Douglas purchase by changing one person.
I struggle to conceive of the sheer number of working professionals in our global economy right now that have received an irreversible taint from the corporate piracy era. This is going to take a couple generations to fully go away I suspect, and of course that assumes that it ever does since unqualified MBA holders are still being hired and still running profitable enterprises into the fucking ground left and right.
* McDonnell Douglas
I prefer McDonald Douglas, after all it is a clown show.