Tony Mowbray insists there is no guarantee that he will remain at West Brom if the club are relegated.
The Baggies boss would not walk away from the challenge which faces him at The Hawthorns, but he accepts that the club's board may opt to try a fresh approach.
West Brom's fate could be sealed this weekend if they fail to take maximum points from a home game against Wigan and other results go against them.
Mowbray, though, is refusing to panic and insists he will remain focused on his efforts to build a successful team until he is told he is no longer required.
"If we go down is my future up for discussion? I haven't asked for any assurance and I haven't been given any," he said.
"My thoughts are about trying to build teams. I try to carry through a philosophy. The only way for me is to have a long-term plan of how you want the club to go and then try and follow it through.
"Ultimately the owners and chairman, when they think that is derailed, will make changes and they are well within their rights to do that.
"As coaches and managers, if you don't know where you are going you are in trouble and it's the same for club owners as well if they don't know where they are going, just jumping from one train to another, just hoping to get it right.
"If we are discussing the chairman, he and his board are the only ones who can decide whether they think the club is going in the right direction irrespective of what division we are in."
Despite enduring a difficult 2008/09 campaign, Mowbray insists he would not change his methods were he to be offered the opportunity to go through it all again.
He said: "From my perspective, I am not going to scrap buying technical players and playing through midfield stuff.
"I'm not just going to get some six feet, seven inches tall forwards, some six feet, five inches tall centre-halfs, put four 'doggers' in midfield and have a go that way.
"Yes, that might be successful, it might get you out of the league, get you promotion. It might be successful for a while in the Premier League. It's about what you think is right and wrong."
Mowbray added: "If we fall short this year, I would suggest probably cleverer people than me will look at it and think what mistakes were made, what was done right and then make decisions about people's futures.
"I genuinely don't concern myself or worry myself about it. I continue to forward plan. I believe we have been pretty close this year to being a pretty good team."
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