[lucideer]

This sounds like a bad faith culture in general: i.e. "paying a price for mistakes", rather than "owning postmortems". Treating a mistake as an opportunity for punishment (be it purely social or otherwise), rather than for learning, is more about how you treat staff & peers than how you deal with mistakes.

> Accountability culture" sounds like it could be the same thing.

Can I ask what specific part of my description of accountability culture sounded like it lined up with your description of blame culture?

[jdlshore]

> This sounds like a bad faith culture

Yes, that’s what blame culture is: a dysfunctional organizational culture where, when mistakes are made, the organizational priority is to find and punish those responsible. The consequence is CYA and finger pointing.