Heads Will Roll: Resignation/Sacking Culture

Obviously there's the recent political exits, but beyond that, and I know this is a bit broad, but it often seems like you can't go a month without someone resigning from an important, high profile position, a group of people calling for someone else to resign, or for them to be sacked and make a hasty departure. This 'heads will roll' threat seems to let the person leaving/being forced to go off the hook. They might lose their salary, and their job, but are they being made to take responsibility? It's one thing for someone guilty of misconduct or negligence (the Kids Company woman, maybe), but when people are just given their marching orders, it just seems too easy. Shouldn't they be made to clean up their mistakes? (maybe they do in terms of handovers, etc, idk) Or in some cases, even be *allowed* to clean their shit up? Simply getting rid of them, or allowing them to leave, seems immature, and a bit infantile.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQryjoIL_AU

short termism is also related.

what does it mean to 'take responsibility'?

very few ceos are truly irreplaceable; why should they continue to wield power and draw enormous salaries after, say, driving their businesses and/or national economies into the ground?

i'd suggest that donald rumsfeld did very little to take responsibility for or fix the situation in iraq in the three years he was secretary of defense following the botched invasion. david cameron has shown abysmal political sense; apart from the fact that he has no appetite for overseeing the results of his failure, why would anyone want him to? in places like ferguson and baltimore and chicago, who has 'taken responsibility' for entrenched racist corruption?

if anything, i'd say there's too little resignation/sacking

football is a good example of a culture where managers often beg to be allowed to put right the wrongs they've done, often with no indication that they know why things have gone wrong or that they have a coherent plan to put them right again.