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Quite a lot of companies function better when managers are poorly paid, obedient and basically apply a replicable system with minimal autonomy. It would suck to

• Silhouette 6y ago
  That strategy works right up until the point where the managers are implementing a bad policy, such as one that breaks the law. At that point, someone has to be responsible, and a reasonable choice would be the most senior manager(s) who mandated that policy and perhaps the level above them for failing to adequately supervise and control them before the damage was done. The company itself is likely to have the legal liability anyway, unless perhaps there was actually criminal conduct on the part of its staff. However, surely those managers should expect at a minimum to be disciplined. Depending on the severity of the mistake, the seniority of each manager and the level of awareness of the relevant issues that they should have had, something like this might even constitute gross misconduct and be a firing matter.