If you want to fix the problem, look at the incentives. Management hasn't had an incentive to manage down in decades, because the executives no longer care about tenure nor productivity in the traditional sense (because their incentives are also messed up, but that's for another post).

You need a good culture with proper incentives to be rewarded as a good manager. But that's not really the world most live in these days. Instead, the good get exploited by the bad and either leave to protect themselves or cause discourse as they try to do their job and inevitably be overthrown by those above.