Published in Feb 2018

What is your accountability?

What is your accountability?
Unlike responsibility (the “before”) and self-empowerment (the “during”), personal accountability is the “after”. It's a willingness to answer for the outcomes of your choices, actions, and behaviors. When you're personally accountable, you stop assigning blame, “should-ing” on people, and making excuses.

What is the difference between responsibility and accountability in nursing? The main difference between responsibility and accountability is that responsibility can be shared while accountability cannot. Being accountable not only means being responsible for something but also ultimately being answerable for your actions.

What does it mean to take accountability?
If you take responsibility for your own actions, you show accountability. ... A government has accountability for decisions and laws affecting its citizens; an individual has accountability for acts and behaviors. Sometimes, though, taking accountability means admitting you made a mistake.

What does it mean to be accountable to someone?
To be responsible means to be answerable for something within one's power or control. To be accountable means to be subject to giving an account or having the obligation to report, explain or justify something.

 


By KS