Accountability is accepting or ensuring responsibility for decisions or actions, especially when those actions fail to live up to standards or core values. Accountability is tied with behaviors and attitudes that leaders work hard to instill in their organizations. Using data from the most recent iteration of the Global Business Ethics Survey® (GBES®), ECI explored: employees’ perceptions and experiences; practices, particularly those of managers, that reinforce the belief that accountability is present; and the link between accountability and other facets of an organization’s ethics culture.
Accountability is accepting or ensuring responsibility for decisions or actions, especially when those actions fail to live up to standards or core values. Accountability is tied with behaviors and attitudes that leaders work hard to instill in their organizations.