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Based on the most helpful WSO content, this scenario is not uncommon in professional environments. A notable example is shared in a thread where an employee revamped company tools, created offering memorandums, introduced cost-saving measures, and even coached a less competent manager. Despite their efforts, they were fired after six months. Ironically, the company later adopted some of their ideas and improvements.
This highlights a recurring theme: even when employees are correct, challenging management can backfire, especially in environments where the employer is always deemed "right." The advice from such experiences often suggests avoiding direct confrontation with management, becoming a "yes man," and seeking opportunities elsewhere if the environment is not conducive to growth or recognition.
Sources: Incompetent Coworker, Strategy& Ex Employee - Q&A, A McKinsey grads eight tips for success at work
You mean, change their views on how things should be managed or literally try to change whose in management?
The few instances I know of this in my corporate experience, almost always - the person ends up leaving for a different opportunity.
Change their views...had a director try to get management to change how we were billing the client, ultimately the director lost, but we effectively switched to his method about a month after he was let go
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