I'd love to see an example of such an accepted accountability at least once in my life.
I think that's the point, you wouldn't see it. If a good manager gets unreasonably or unfairly reamed by his boss, he's probably not gonna tell his team about it, because it would be a blow to morale. If it was indeed the team's dysfunction, he'd try to improve it.
Meanwhile the most useless people are failing upward into CEO.
It's rare, but it does happen.