Responsibility?

What responsibility?

Corrections boss: I have nothing to fear ... from a State Services Commission (SSC) inquiry.

Mr Matthews told NZPA that as head of the department, he was accountable for its performance and how it delivered government goals.

"I don't have any problem with that and equally everybody in the organisation is accountable for the job they do given the resources they've got and the task ahead of them there," he said.

"That authority was delegated to the general manager of probation (Katrina Casey) to in fact deliver on that."

So obviously a person who wants the responsibility , wants the power and the rewards for that ($375,000) without the associated accountability.
This attitude has become extremely pervasive throughout the private and public sectors such that one has to wonder how so many of these people warrant the remuneration they get.