Responsibility and Accountability Necessary for a Successful Business

This post originally appeared at petechristianbooks.com

It is amazing that certain companies do not hold their personnel accountable for their work.

They ignore that responsibility and accountability are necessary for a successful business. It is puzzling why this is happening. Companies try to solve this dilemma by redefining responsibilities. They do this by reorganizing what people do and restructuring the way work is done.

They find that by changing where people are in the organization won’t change how they think and perform. What they are lacking is personal accountability. That involves a choice to move closer to the success that you or your organization wants.

One of the companies I worked with was a prime example of this.

This company wanted to make improvements to the operations by utilizing project teams.

Their first project involved the receipt, storage, movement and use of the materials they processed. About 75% of these were client-owned. The rest were items they used to ship the materials they finished to the customers.