Dear RM@CHENNAI,
You could have provided a little background on the nature of your query. Are you a senior or junior? Why have you raised this query? Anyway, let me give a reply. Yes, 100% I agree that the subordinate is also responsible for personal development. In fact, the leader can only guide or show the path, but finally, one has to walk on one's own. However, there are a few additional reasons why a subordinate fails to respond despite prodding by the Manager.
Recruitment
Whether the candidate has the ambition to grow or not has to be checked right at the time of recruitment itself. To light a lamp, there has to be oil. Can a lamp be lit without the oil? It may get lit, but after a while, the flame will extinguish. What oil is to a lamp is the ambition for career growth.
Learning Attitude
No amount of training or coaching by the Manager will be effective if the learning attitude is missing in the subordinate. The Manager's efforts will be like water off a duck's back!
Organization's Culture
Is there a learning environment in the company? Are there examples of people joining at a lower level but rising in the hierarchy because of sheer efforts? Live examples motivate everybody, especially juniors.
General Motivation Level
In many companies, low-IQ people are employed. They are hired even with low IQ because the salary offered is so low that it becomes impossible to attract people with average+ IQ. People with low IQ also know that they are incapable, but they continue to work because they know they may not get a job elsewhere!
Mismatch in Competence and Job
Please remember, "for every job, there is a person, and for every person, there is a job." The asses cannot be expected to do the work of the horses. Any type of leadership is bound to fail with this mismatch.
Thanks,
Dinesh Divekar