Responsiblity

Responsibility may be defined as the obligatory duty to which a person is bound by reason of his status, occupation or assigned task. Embodied by reason in this definition are three main elements of conduct: namely compliance, obedience, and dependability. Compliance means action in conforming with directives that flow down from superiors to subordinates. This is responsibility for perormance. Obedience means submission to the guidance of an authority. This is responsibility for person.

With reference to dependability this means reliability and trustworthiness. This is confidence that develops when tasks are consumensurate with capabilities. This means responsibility for duty.

Responsibility , obligation and privilege are components represented the personal internalization of the work values, the emotional commitment to these values through the sense of obligation about work and the rewards coming out interpersonal relations in the form of privilege. When one makes profound changes in doing things that is responsibility. When things go wrong and one takes steps to do better rather than blame other that is responbility.

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