When I ran departments and eventually a company, I held everyone responsible and accountable for everything they did. First and foremost I held myself responsible and accountable. Never ask others to do something you will not do yourself.
A real life analogy I’ve used before is imagine if you had your own wedding being planned. You are accountable for the outcome of your wedding but may have a wedding planner that is responsible for the co-ordinating the actual activities associated with it. So the wedding planner will do all the planning but the buck stops with you as the person who hired the wedding planner and you can jump in at any moment to change plans or suggest new changes. In addition when a decision is required the Wedding planner will often rely on you for the decision before going ahead, for example what type of cake or what colour of flowers. Being accountable will also mean that normally You are involved in signing off on things. So again the wedding planner may have arranged the seating plans or the food menu but it can’t be a committed plan without your sign-off. Being responsible means you have to “action” That thing without necessarily being the person that signs off that thing. Another analogy would be like having and accountant or a mechanic provide a service for you. In the bigger picture, you are accountable ultimately for the state of your car/finances and what happened to it, while the accountant/mechanic can be responsible for implementing things for you.
Responsibility and accountability are the same thing. You couldn't even make your points without using the terms interchangeably in each example. The correct terms you are looking for are things like boss and employee. The employee is responsible for doing their job to a certain standard, but the boss is responsible for making sure everything is good to go at the end of the day because he pays the bills and eats the losses. You could exchange the terms and say the employee is responsible for his tasks and is held accountable for them getting done - that's effectively the same thing. This whole nonsense about accountable and responsible is just corporate speak to make things unnecessarily complicated sounding.
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When I ran departments and eventually a company, I held everyone responsible and accountable for everything they did. First and foremost I held myself responsible and accountable. Never ask others to do something you will not do yourself.
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A real life analogy I’ve used before is imagine if you had your own wedding being planned.
You are accountable for the outcome of your wedding but may have a wedding planner that is responsible for the co-ordinating the actual activities associated with it.
So the wedding planner will do all the planning but the buck stops with you as the person who hired the wedding planner and you can jump in at any moment to change plans or suggest new changes. In addition when a decision is required the Wedding planner will often rely on you for the decision before going ahead, for example what type of cake or what colour of flowers.
Being accountable will also mean that normally
You are involved in signing off on things. So again the wedding planner may have arranged the seating plans or the food menu but it can’t be a committed plan without your sign-off.
Being responsible means you have to “action”
That thing without necessarily being the person that signs off that thing.
Another analogy would be like having and accountant or a mechanic provide a service for you. In the bigger picture, you are accountable ultimately for the state of your car/finances and what happened to it, while the accountant/mechanic can be responsible for implementing things for you.
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I learn the Financial controller has the accountability but as a Bookkeeper I am responsible in keeping the books efficient and accurate.
Accountable for the outcome and doing responsible to do job or business
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Some segments in the video are stamped not adjacent to each other
So what about reliability, trustworthy and dependability?
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Responsibility and accountability are the same thing. You couldn't even make your points without using the terms interchangeably in each example. The correct terms you are looking for are things like boss and employee. The employee is responsible for doing their job to a certain standard, but the boss is responsible for making sure everything is good to go at the end of the day because he pays the bills and eats the losses. You could exchange the terms and say the employee is responsible for his tasks and is held accountable for them getting done - that's effectively the same thing. This whole nonsense about accountable and responsible is just corporate speak to make things unnecessarily complicated sounding.
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