The Significance of responsibility
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF RESPONSIBILITY
Tyler Petri
May 20, 2014
The Significance of Responsibility
Responsibility is defined by two pertinent definitions in our language.
The state or fact of having a duty to deal with something or of having control over someone; the state or fact of being accountable or to blame for something. These definitions form a relevant point in the substance of this essay, where I will discuss what responsibility is, types of responsibility, why this value is important in society, what irresponsibility means, what this word means to me, and how I plan to improve my level of responsibility in the future.
Responsibility can be summed up in a number of different ways. Most notably so by keeping hold of one’s duties and by being accountable of one’s actions. A person who is responsible has a variety of tasks at hand at many given moments, and must be trusted to competently complete them through his/her own doing. Therefore, should a person fail to complete one of these said tasks, or he/she does so in a substandard manner, he/she is demonstrating a lack of responsibility with the given task. A person is then irresponsible when this becomes a definable pattern in their behavior.
Responsibility also means to be accountable. When a person fails to uphold the standard in any given way, that person must be held accountable for their actions. To make excuses or even to deny blame demonstrates a lack of accountability, and thus responsibility. To deny
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The Significance of Responsibility
blame for a fault does not even occur to a person who is naturally responsible. Without responsibility, one cannot expect to be placed in a position of leadership; as such placement involves increased responsibility.
One also cannot expect to be relied upon in the future by his/her colleagues, superiors, or subordinates.
Responsibility can be broken down into further categories. This value comes into play in terms of leadership,
Tyler Petri
May 20, 2014
The Significance of Responsibility
Responsibility is defined by two pertinent definitions in our language.
The state or fact of having a duty to deal with something or of having control over someone; the state or fact of being accountable or to blame for something. These definitions form a relevant point in the substance of this essay, where I will discuss what responsibility is, types of responsibility, why this value is important in society, what irresponsibility means, what this word means to me, and how I plan to improve my level of responsibility in the future.
Responsibility can be summed up in a number of different ways. Most notably so by keeping hold of one’s duties and by being accountable of one’s actions. A person who is responsible has a variety of tasks at hand at many given moments, and must be trusted to competently complete them through his/her own doing. Therefore, should a person fail to complete one of these said tasks, or he/she does so in a substandard manner, he/she is demonstrating a lack of responsibility with the given task. A person is then irresponsible when this becomes a definable pattern in their behavior.
Responsibility also means to be accountable. When a person fails to uphold the standard in any given way, that person must be held accountable for their actions. To make excuses or even to deny blame demonstrates a lack of accountability, and thus responsibility. To deny
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The Significance of Responsibility
blame for a fault does not even occur to a person who is naturally responsible. Without responsibility, one cannot expect to be placed in a position of leadership; as such placement involves increased responsibility.
One also cannot expect to be relied upon in the future by his/her colleagues, superiors, or subordinates.
Responsibility can be broken down into further categories. This value comes into play in terms of leadership,