Who is the most responsible for non-performance-- Senior Management or the Junior Cader???

The Management has to take whole responsibility, wholeheartedly for all kinds of happenings in an employee's working life.  Whether performance or some other criteria, The Management has to come forward and solve the problem by taking initiative steps in an organisation. Because, we recruit the candidates for our own, that is, our oraganisation's benefits, first.  Therefore, the management personalities are responsible for every problems which occurs in an organisation.

This is my opinion

The role of senior management is similar to the role of the orchestra conductor.
The analogy simply means:
• The overall performance will be excellent if we have a good conductor and good musicians.
• There will be a loud noise if we have a good conductor and lousy musicians.
• There will be an ugly chaos if we have a bad conductor and excellent musicians-

I will support for Senior Management, because Senior Management has the authority to take decision. Everytime seniors takes the credit of the good performance, due to this the Juniors feels bad & automatically they thinks negative about their job.

It is not other than the game of power. Juniors are not at all responsible but they became the scapegoat on non performance and at the time of credit seniors grab it. It is well known fact that "victory has many fathers, defeat is orphan." I feel that it shoud be everybody's responsibility to bring out the company out of delemma at the time of crises.

I strongly recommand not to think who is responcible.

It is not ones responsiblity in a team. If any member has found that there is a chance for non-performance, he shas to jump into action by taking rest of the team members (Including Promoters, Top brass, Midle mgmt, and all) and should find a collective corrective sollution to the issue.

If this does not take place, the system will collapce irrespective of the level of mgmt.

Its our responsibility to make sure that the junior cadet work properly and efficiently. If we as a senior management executive not able to guide the juniors on what to do, when to do and how to do. Then for non performance we the senior management are responsible.

Junior Cadet are not well experienced as we are so they tend to make mistakes now and then, and we should avoid doing any silly mistakes because we all know no one forgets the mistakes done by top management.

I agree with Ahmed and not with the others simply because it is actually a team effort. Like a good orchestra both senior and junior management have to work in tandem to achieve the desired results. One cannot lay blame on the other without putting their own effort under the scanner.

Unfortunately the practice of holding junior cadre including trainees responsible and chucking them out at the slightest opportunity is prevalent. In fact in a recession, it should be the other way round in an organisation where the policies are already in place. Senior management should be chucked out becauser of the high costs involved in their salaries and allowances. I say this inspite of belonging to the latter cadre now. What will an organisation gain by chucking out a few trainees whose compined salary will not exceed that of a senior manager in any case.

I find the very question curious and full of complexity.  We appear to confuse couple of issues of different nature.

First, corporate performance is team work. No level can and shud take entire credit or debit. There cannot be like junior level or senior level responsibility. If senior management lack clear vision and dedication and adequate motivational energy, then corporate performace will go down. At the same time the planner, that is senior management are clear but the junior management is not competent or lack motivation, then also the performance will suffer. Planning (senoir management) and execution (junior management) have to be in harmony to accomplish the corporate goals and improve performance. If, for whatever, reason planning is faluty or execution is fumbles, you have graph of performance go down. It is a team work.

However, the recession, invariably first hit the junior cadre and trainees. Yaha jungla ka kanoon chalata hai. For obvious reasons trainees n junior staff are vulnerable eough to be axed from the company. They might justify it, by playing blame games. But the fact is, it is recession and they don't have any option.

We are tackling two issues with certain inherent contradictions.

I agree with mahesh that if the senior guys are not doing their work exactly then its no point in blaming the junior people for inefficiencies.