Well, that's one strategy...

Despite the general ideological proclivity under Soviet communism to undermine individual initiative, compared with the Mercury/Gemini/Apollo programs, the Soviet approach to safe and effective systems engineering for their early spacecraft involved the creation of (let's just say) very high incentives for individual engineers:

"[The Voskhod-1] was so cramped that the cosmonauts could not wear spacesuits. The story goes that one of the engineers warned the chief designer, Sergei Korolev, that the slightest leak of air would kill those on board. Korolev's solution was to appoint the engineer as one of the cosmonauts, figuring that this would help motivate him to make the capsule as safe as possible. All three cosmonauts survived the mission - although others were not so lucky."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/9420752.stm