[AbrahamParangi]

“I take full responsibility” means “I am not firing these people because of their faults, I am firing them because I need to and had I better foresight, I wouldn’t have hired them in the first place”

The firing is a necessary consequence of the hiring. You can, if you want, make it harder to fire people — but if you do you will also find companies will be less willing to hire people.

[asah]

Perhaps that's what the speaker intends but not what affected listeners are likely to hear. In the west, it's the speaker's responsibility to make themselves understood by the majority of listeners.