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Accountaability In The Workplace

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I was not accounted for when giving quarters by the dentist The Army as well as other organizations empower workers to take ownership, they foster a accountability, and they have a high levels of trust between all levels of the workplace. Furthermore, there’s a strong link between these three values and characteristics of high performance. Ownership is about taking initiative and doing the right thing for the business. It’s about taking responsibility for results and not assuming it’s not someone else’s responsibility. At minimum, taking ownership means that if you recognize something is material to achieving results, that you take the initiative to bring it to the attention of the right people. If ownership is about taking initiative, accountability is about follow through and getting done …show more content…

Your delay becomes your team’s delay. The work they had planned gets impacted and that work potentially has further downstream effects. Similarly, lack of accountability can snowball in a team, department and organization. Tolerating missed deadlines, lack of punctuality and un-finished work has the tendency to make this behaviour “no big deal”. People learn that the real deadline is a week from the published one; that consistently being 10 min late for a meeting is the norm; that sub-par work is acceptable in the interest of “getting it done” (which should not be confused with pushing yourself to ship and not over-work a project). The cumulative impact across an organization can be substantial. One clear way to understand the impact of poor accountability is to imagine accountability in the context of the military. Make accountability a part of your team’s normal way of operating. Talk about it, share ideas, come to a common consensus about what accountability means in the workplace, and then use that as a foundation everyone works from as they make accountability an organizational

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