It's not only Pilots who have this problem. Large companies do it too, the most specatcular being an oil company by the name of Esso (its all right the details are in the Longford court records).
The procedure is pretty simple, they have reams and reams of SOP's you are supposed to comply with, and they make it very clear that as the supervising engineer, it is YOUR responsibility and you have the authority. The only problem is that they never give you the resources to comply, and they reward cost cutting. The result is that you are encouraged to go along with the deciept in the hope you will be posted before anything bad happens.
And when something bad does happen, as it eventually does, they blame the engineer/pilot/operator for non compliance with company procedures.
When I sussed this out thirty years ago, I left Esso and went and joined Ansett, they had a safety culture way back then and even a slightly paranoid chief inspector to keep the pressure on.
Of course when the Longford oil terminal blew up, Esso acted true to type and blamed the plant operators. It took a royal commission to finally discover Esso's total responsibility.