Don't we achieve as much as we also failed? Everybody has part to play to ensure the balance, and stop placing blame. It is totally counter productive.
We should NOT place blame randomly but we achieve and fail individually because we (most of the times) have to fend for ourselves and we do NOT have at hand advisors and associates, and data these guys have.
I only agree with part of your statement but with a little enhancement:
Everybody (???) has a part to play to ensure the balance . Everybody? A company fails when its management fails and this leads to the employees' failure too. If a company has a good management team, well screened, tested, competent and proficient employees won't fail in general terms. Statistics say so. Those employees not fulfilling the criteria will be left behind accusing the management of bad and ill-intended practices.
EY had it all and still HAS. They started without the proper "foundations" because the Board or its representative elected to recruit friends and acquaintances, most from dubious and untested backgrounds and with the objective of achieving the unachievable. Many will say that the same is happening now. Maybe! By this Fall things may indicate the direction they are going. However, it could not continue as it was.
The Board knew beforehand the creation of EY would certainly mean AUH's departure from GF and the eviction of GT and therefore that gap would have to be filled almost immediately. This meant buying or leasing aircraft which meant a poor service for a starter with the likes and aims of EY, expanding infra-structures, recruiting hundreds of staff, house them, etc., otherwise it would become a nightmare. And it happened. The others' mistakes should not be EY's; Wouldn't an outsourced management from the very beginning be the right choice to start with?
EK started slowly and it was only 5 years later when they decided to expand into what is perceived nowadays to be a monster out of control. Despite all it is said EK is still a company to work for in the Gulf. The problems they are having are problems they created themselves recently because of a big oversight in management strategies. QR started badly, but 10 years ago they revamped everything for the much better. Unfortunately the good path lasted barely 1 or 2 years with the results we see. Safety was definitely bypassed by other (personal) goals. Will Air Arabia and Jazeera be different or more recently RAK Airways? Time will tell.
The trend is to spend the least possible with an individual employee and maximise his/her output along with that of the fleet to increase profits; and the CFO, the CEO and the Board of Directors will live happily ever after...
A company is always a good company to work for and fly with when management associates, wisely, safety and profitability with all the strings attached to that.