...Accountability as a Concept Wendie Malkinski Theoretical Foundations of Advanced Nursing Dr. Linda Phelps November 29, 2015 Accountability as a Concept Accountability in the field of nursing is very important as everything we do can either save or take lives. When mistakes are made at this level of care it affects public trust and someone must take responsibility for mistakes and also life saving measures. This is one of the cornerstones of the medical profession as a whole. As we have taken an oath to do no harm. Responsibility equals accountability. Accountability shows in many ways, shapes and forms. This concept also shows up in more than just the medical field, and nursing. It appears in everything from architecture, government, and even our personal lives. All throughout history the concept of accountability has appeared on the canvas. For example, President Truman embraced the term “The buck stops here”. Basically saying that instead of passing the blame or the “buck”, the responsibility lies with him as our leader and president. (The Harry S. Truman Library, n.d.). What the Literature Says During a preliminary literature search, I found the accountability concept displayed in many different disciplines and categories. For example, I found accountability mentioned in the medical field, government, sociology, psychology, and even engineering / architecture. Going a little further...
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...Personal Responsibility “Personal responsibility is the willingness to both accept the importance of standards that society establishes for individual behavior and to make strenuous personal efforts to live by those standards,” (Haskins, July 2009). Expanding on Haskins definition, for me Personal Responsibility is one’s personal idea that involves working on our own character and skill development to realize that idea. Personal Responsibility comes in different forms and magnitudes, but the substance is the same. Every person should be responsible for their own actions to include personal and professional because a strong and successful society illustrates the characters of responsible people. When applied to college education, personal responsibility means that students accept the responsibility to attend school, study, complete assignments with the ultimate goal of graduating. The moment the student leaps into furthering their education, they embrace the responsibility of investing time and effort anywhere from two to four years at a minimum. This commitment requires discipline, good time management and balance of work, school and family life (Cheema, 2009). The relationship between personal responsibility and college success is the desire and perseverance to achieve the set goal. College success becomes one’s personal responsibility to complete the program. As the student progresses in college, their personal idea of responsibility begins to evolve and improve their...
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... * HR Professionals must adhere with the highest standards of integrity, honesty, diligence, ethical and professional behaviour * Recruitment and selection processes should be fair, transparent and ensures equality * Ensure continually develop professional knowledge and competence of their employees and make sure that equal opportunity, fairness and transparency is provided * HR professionals must comply with the government laws and regulations * Develop, administer and advocate policies and procedures that foster fair, reliable and equitable treatment for all. Organisation ethics is the foundation of all businesses. It is the attitude, values and behaviour an organisation reflects on their employees and all stakeholders. To ensure organisation act ethically: * Organisation that follow good ethical behaviour are able to increase commitment of the people with ethics and increases reliability and loyalty of customers, employees and the stakeholders * Organisations that act ethically follow legal compliances, policies and procedures. * Ethically progressed organisations understands corporates social responsibility * Lead organisation with high...
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...Integra(ng)Risk)Management) into)Strategy)&)Corp)Governance) Peter%Verhezen% Principal)Verhezen)&)Associates)) Fellow)Harvard)Kennedy)School) Adjunct)Professor)Melbourne)Business)School) ) ) This)slide)presenta(on)has)been)prepared)for)and)in)collabora(on)with) Pri)Notowidigdo) Risk = effect of uncertainty on objectives Scenarios / Probabilities Positive deviation Opportunities Upside Risk has a positive side Target Negative deviation from target Downside Future: probabilities Negative deviation Today’s Value (mark-to-market) Threats As management projects into the future, the value of the firm will be affected by many different market and business variables – i.e. risk factors. Tomorrow’s Possible Values (mark-to-future) 2 Mortgage Crisis => Global Financ Crisis hKp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaqvwOJx2eQ) Scenarios / Probabilities ) Positive deviation Opportunities Upside Risk has a positive side Target Risk Appetite Future: probabilities But usually perceived as negative Downside Negative deviation Today’s Value (mark-to-market) Threats As management projects into the future, the value of the firm will be affected by many different market and business variables – i.e. risk factors. Tomorrow’s Possible Values (mark-to-future) 3 Within boundaries & above average High Moral & Social Norms / Higher than Average Value + + Risk Opportunity Value at Risk (1) Enrich Shareholders & Serve Stakeholders ...
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...Personal Responsibility Some might say that they both know as well as understand what personal responsibility is, but sometimes that's not always the case. To understand one's own personal responsibility you must always own up to your own actions. Therefore, you must take charge of your actions by practicing discipline and using time management skills. Thus, for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Personal Responsibility to me means to, acknowledge responsibility for my choices and being accountable for my own actions. Is important to acknowledge personal responsibility and to never point the blame to someone else in order to be successful. There those who you may either work with or just may be around that think doing whats right is a bad idea or say "it's your funeral", but by taking responsibility for what happened and by knowing that you are at fault for it is always the best way to go. Thus, always tell yourself that by doing the right thing is being personal responsible. Every action creates an equal and opposite reaction, which means that whatever actions you take in life will affect your college success. A perfect ex. would be procrastination, if you take too long on an assignment or forget to do the assignment then it will come back on you when the day comes to turn it in. Therefore, never put off til tomorrow what can be done today. Not one person in the entire universe will always have the same view's on personal responsibility as another...
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...Who is eligible for rights given by the law? On what basis are they obtained? As questions for rights, the impression has long been a contentious one. Traditional citizenship has been cast in liberal terms, as an individual legal right with certain set of responsibilities bestowed by a state to its citizens. But, in recent approaches the idea of citizenship has been reconceptualised to take a less state-centred approach to more actor-oriented one, arguing that citizenship is achieved through the citizens themselves, based on their diverse sets of...
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...environment are by giving students a different perspective on the topic they are working on. Collaboration can help students learn to cooperate effectively in a group setting and can teach them the social skills they will need to be successful in everyday life. There are many factors that take part in collaboration, such as personal responsibility, difference in attitudes and difference learning styles. Personal responsibility can influence the work and success of a group if a group member does not take accountability for his or her work. If one or more group members are not taking accountability they will not put in the same amount of effort as someone who does have personal responsibility. This can cause a lot of frustration and tension among the group which will negatively affect the outcome of the project. When working with a group there are going to be different attitudes and learning styles among the team mates. A few communication strategies that can be used when collaborating are; making sure everyone is heard, voicing the importance of achieving goals on time and using a variety of ways to complete the project so that everyone has an equal learning opportunity. Some strategies that can be used to enhance team performance are setting clear timelines for when things are expected to be completed, being flexible when you need to be, making sure to listen to other people’s ideas and realizing that everyone is different so you need to value each person’s different strengths...
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...|JOB TITLE: Financial Accountant (12 months contract) | |TEAM/PROGRAMME: Finance |LOCATION: London | |GRADE: (please leave this blank) |Type of Contract: | | |Fixed Term | |CHILD SAFEGUARDING: (select only one) | | | |Level 1 – No CRB check is required as you will not have contact with children or young people or access to data | |ROLE PURPOSE: | |To support the Finance Manager Financial Accounts on all aspects of member funding streams to Save the Children International (SCI). | |Preparation of accurate and timely expenditure claims, quarterly reconciliations and reporting to members. In addition, assisting with the | |preparation and analysis of SCI balance sheet reporting...
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...jcc23black.qxd 21/11/06 1:01 pm Page 25 Corporate Social Responsibility as Capability The Case of BHP Billiton Leeora D. Black Australian Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility; and Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University Corporate social responsiveness is what companies do in order to be socially responsible. This paper presents a case study of social responsiveness at the global mining firm BHP Billiton to illustrate a model of social responsiveness capabilities. Until now, corporate social responsiveness has described processes of environmental scanning, issues management and stakeholder management. The model presented here suggests that social responsiveness is rather understood as a cluster of five organisation-level capabilities that span an organisation’s culture and structure. The case study explores evidence for social responsiveness capabilities at BHP Billiton and considers management implications for the development of management abilities for social responsibility. Director of the Australian Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility, Dr Leeora Black is a consultant, researcher and educator focused on integrating social responsibility into business operations and strategies and measuring corporate social responsibility. Her work analyses complex CSR issues and problems and builds organisational CSR capabilities. She works with global firms, government businesses and social-sector organisations on integration of CSR...
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...In his article, “The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits,” Milton Friedman asserts that businesses should devote themselves to the sole quest of optimizing earnings. Friedman’s entire hypothesis rests on a model where an executive decides the activities the company shall undertake alone. This model is possible, but unlikely since business activities ought to be designed by many stakeholder groups, other than the executives. (p. 211). This is because public relations is an effective tool for shaping the opinion of consumers regarding a corporation and structuring the image of the business. However, in expressing his argument, Friedman relies on several logical fallacies that constitute abstract relations meant to stir the emotions of the reader. By creating a false society where income and collective good are mutually exclusive, social accountability compares to communism, and workers are separated from the society. Friedman’s narrow argument is devoid of scale and methodical firmness and fails to persuade the reader of its logical qualities. This commentary aims at clarifying the significance of corporate social responsibility and establishes how organizations can achieve their profit motives in a socially responsible manner. First, Friedman pushes the reader to take his side by creating an abstract division amid profits and social accountability. In his view of a capitalist economy, the one and only responsibility of a corporation is to use...
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...viewing it as the master-key to rapid socio-economic and political advancement. Between 16% and 22% of Government Budget goes to Education (Aghenta 1989) and between 25% and 45% of family income goes to Secondary Education (Durosaro 1997). Hence, there is an increasing social demand on educational managers to expand facilities; to provide more supportive services; to provide equal educational opportunities; to reorder priorities; to ensure greater productivity and new programmes; to respond to more individualized needs and to provide software necessary to upgrade business decisions in their own areas of responsibility. Unfortunately, in the face of this social pressure on education, the nations financial resources had shown a declining trend thus leading to a cut back in the nations expenditure on some social service sub-sectors like education. This situation calls for prudence and accountability in all facets of our national life including education. To ensure these, there had been the introduction of such economic concepts like -investment, returns, efficiency, effectiveness and accountability. Accountability could be viewed as the recording and reporting of the activities and events affecting personnel, facilities, material or money of an organization and its programmes. Education is the process of cognitive, affective and psychomotor development of a child. Owing to the shortfall in the funding of education by Government, parents are being called upon to give more financial...
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...In addition, the performance outcome of the agency is direct reflection of the department of HUD, thus, the executive branch of the United States. Public accountability is a function of the capabilities of principal’s to judge the performance of this agency. Thus, the agency will be overseen by multiple governmental entities to ensure that accountability is held to those who fail to meet the standards of the agency, who enable the agency from fulfilling its duties, or who are engage in negatively skewing the perception of the agency in any way. My agency is an extension of the executive governmental body, thus we report to, and receive funds from the branch. Though we report directly to the executive branch, the leadership appointment of the...
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...jcc17welford.qx 5/4/05 4:43 pm Page 33 Corporate Social Responsibility in Europe, North America and Asia 2004 Survey Results Richard Welford University of Hong Kong, China This paper builds on previous work of the author in assessing policies on corporate social responsibility (CSR) based on 20 elements. The elements are based on international conventions, codes of conduct and industry best practice. In a second survey of current priorities for CSR among large listed companies, the paper examines the written policies of companies in 15 countries in Europe, North America and Asia. The second survey demonstrates an increased emphasis on ethics, bribery and corruption and increased policies among companies on child labour compared with the first survey. It shows that one cannot assume that Asian countries are less developed than their Western counterparts and points to a growing trend of CSR in Japan, in particular. Nevertheless, it is demonstrated that there is a link between the development of CSR and the economic development of countries and that many CSR policies are based on localised issues and cultural traditions at a country level. Supply chain aspects of CSR are growing in importance, particularly among countries with a strong trading tradition. G Corporate social responsibility G Accountability G Citizenship G Europe G North America G Asia JCC 17 Spring 2005 u Corporate Environmental Governance Programme, Centre of Urban...
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...behavior from the company and each of our employees. * To follow all laws, regulations, and rules. * To treat our communities, clients, and partners with the upmost respect and regard. * To inspire the highest level of professional conduct and accountability. There are 3 key characteristics that we will all display and have and those are honesty, accountability, and integrity Honesty: creates a relationship with those that we work with based on trust and honesty Accountability: When we have made a mistake, we will always do what is needed to correct it and take responsibility for it. Integrity: We will be honest and respectful to our clients and our business. Sincerity and respectfulness will be our best policies. All employees need to show sincere behavior and morally sound decision making especially when their personal and professional lives clash with each other. This company will use effective processes so that they can ensure that all private company and client information is preserved and safe. The use of company and client information which doesn't follow organization policy will not be allowed. We will treat all of our clients with equal respect and honesty. We will display and follow the highest standard of service while making sure that products and services that we offer not only meeting the clients' needs and expectations but also go above and beyond the clients’ needs and expectations...
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...Corporate responsibility, corporate restructuring, enterprise crisis, bankruptcy 1238 Abstract Discourse regarding ethics and corporate responsibility arose in the last years linked with an increasing number of accounting fraud scandals. The recent financial crisis has had a lasting negative influence on corporate profits. Companies have had to satisfy the interests of several stakeholders, such as its employees, banks, customers and the community, and at the same time successfully manage the consequences of the crisis. An empirical qualitative study which was conducted in Austria in 2008 is presented in this paper aimed at investigating business ethics and crisis management. The stakeholder theory will be used as a reference framework. This paper concludes with lessons that can be learned and political recommendations and policies put forth to grant failed businesses a second chance. 1. Introduction In the past few years, an increasing number of fraud cases and accounting scandals is linked to fierce discourse with respect to ethics and corporate accountability. Business ethics has likewise become a current research subject in science (Homan/Lütge, 2005; VHB, 2008). Discussions concerning corporate responsibility can be examined from different standpoints such as theological, philosophical or economical perspectives, and moreover it is examined in diverse cultural contexts, for instance in the USA and Europe. Business ethics and social responsibility of companies...
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