[ljm]

Your last example sounds like a complete failure of leadership. And the accountability buck stops with them for enabling that situation.

Accountability isn't easier said than done; it exists everywhere, but you choose how to apply it and when and you use your bias to decide how hard to apply the discipline.

If you feel you need to micromanage someone, then you've lost your leadership too.

[lazide]

Easy to say, but pretty useless on the ground. Which leadership is failing? Who holds whom accountable?

If you, as a leader, will get fired for holding someone accountable to the job (and firing them) and stopping a toxic environment from happening on the team, what then? What if the reason for that is some meta PR corporate reason that makes sense for corporate maybe but not for you and your team?

What if your job includes not causing those larger corporate issues and following the rules of the larger org?

It’s a failure of a large organization, and part of that failure is often making sure there is no one to actually hold accountable in a real way. It sucks. It happens.