the duty to conduct certain activities and be accountable for them to others
Wiktionary Definition for: Responsibility
The state of being responsible, accountable, or answerable.
Ex: '''''Responsibility''' is a heavy burden.''
A duty, obligation or liability for which someone is responsible or accountable.
Ex: ''Keeping this system under control is everyone's '''responsibility'''.''
Ex: ''Why didn't you clean the house? That was your '''responsibility'''!''
military The obligation to carry forward an assigned task to a successful conclusion. With responsibility goes authority to direct and take the necessary action to ensure success. (JP 1-02 Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms).
military The obligation for the proper custody, care, and safekeeping of property or funds entrusted to the possession or supervision of an individual. (JP 1-02 Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms).
"Blaming refers to an emotion-filled process where we assign responsibility for a past event, but also assign a negative emotions to that responsibility. The blamer is attempting to avoid responsibility by pointing to someone else, and may be experiencing fear, anger or other feelings. The problem with the blaming process...
In this modern and diverse society, responsibility plays a very decisive role in term of "Job recruitment and work delegation." Does one believe that sense of responsibility is the most important factor for job criterion and political position? This is one of the facts that is rarely revealed and explored....
Unethical decisions in an organization not only damage the company’s repute in the market, but also incur financial losses owing to loss of control of the firm to regulators or others. This paper presents the pyramid of business responsibility with the philanthropic responsibility at the top, while ethical responsibility, legal...
The U.S. military will establish a separate U.S. Africa Command AFRICOM to oversee operations in Africa. Responsibility for operations in Africa is currently divided among three combatant commands: U.S. European Command, which has responsibility for most of the nations in the African mainland except in the Horn of Africa; U.S....
This article shows how contrary to popular belief, teamwork is not just a group process. It's a personal responsibility and skill-especially in this new and "flatter" work world of teaming, partnering, and collaborating. Today all work is teamwork, and the challenge is to perform when sharing responsibility to get...
The prime aim of any organizational entity is to maximize its shareholders’ returns. The organization has a major responsibility towards primary stakeholder groups. They include customers, shareholders, and employees. There are two main approaches towards measuring corporate responsibility viz. internal assessment and external assessment. The issue of profitability and the...
We all love to take credit when things go right, and shift the blame when things go wrong. It’s especially tempting as a leader. The leader is perfectly positioned to blame just about anyone and anything when things go wrong. As a leader, you must take responsibility. “Take” is...
Corporate Governance CG framework refers to set of laws, institutions, and practices evolved over time to control and coordinate the business and affairs of an organization. It consists of mechanisms to ensure that management’s actions are consistent with the interests of the stockholders. Organizations, world over, have a definitive responsibility...
MINNEAPOLIS -- UnitedHealth Group (NYSE:UNH) today unveiled a new Web site dedicated to social responsibility. The new Web site features UnitedHealth Group's social responsibility commitment to preventing disease and promoting health, addressing racial and social disparities in health care, improving medical knowledge, encouraging volunteerism, and fostering corporate citizenship. The site...
I want to take a few minutes to talk to you about my views on the current state of tax practice, what you can do in your own practice to foster and monitor professional behavior, and where I see the Office of Professional Responsibility heading in the near future. I...
The quest for socially responsible business is a current organisational trend. One expression of this trend is the growing literature on Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Citizenship. In this paper, the author analyses what arguments are used to promote social responsibility and what arguments are used against that project. A...
CLEVELAND - OfficeMax executive vp of OfficeMax.com/Direct has been given additional responsibility for the company's product buying groups, including category management, marketing and advertising. Gene O'Donnell, an executive vp who previously had responsibility for category management and marketing, will now head-up visual merchandising, inventory planning and replenishment.
DARMSTADT, Germany -- Examples of corporate responsibility in action abound in the second edition of the Corporate Responsibility Report of Merck KGaA. Reports and information on relief measures for the victims of natural catastrophes, programs especially for children and adolescents in developing countries, global concepts for employee development, and new...
Making a safety program work can be a crash course in delegating responsibility. Like the posters say, safety is everyone's job, and no safety director or department can take the responsibility away from each operator or laborer in the field. To be Making a...
Extended product responsibility EPR refers to the responsibility shared by various groups, including industry, consumers, and government, for the environmental impacts of a product over its lifecycle. It is a broad principle that captures other environmental strategies, including eco-efficiency, design for the environment DfE, supply chain environmental management, and product...
From the executive summary: 'No one operates in a void within any organization. However, any organization is just that. A group of people aligned for a specific set of purposes. How well that organization functions is a not one, single person's or even the organization's responsibility. Instead, it is the...
This paper presents social responsibility of business organizations not as a "nice to do"' gesture but rather as a critical driver of corporate performance. The paper proposes a perspective on how social responsibility is currently perceived by the global business community, how it is defined and measured. The paper then...
When: Wednesday, May 24, 2006; 11:30 Registration; Lunch and Program begins at noon, followed by Q&A Where: ESPN Zone, 3030 Peachtree Road., Atlanta, Georgia Who: Investor Relations, Public Relations and Corporate Communications practitioners as well as Media representatives who are interested in learning about the Corporate Social Responsibility...
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