Are Accountability and Victimization cousins?
As our nation’s economic speedboat threatens to run aground, the economic crisis is a hot topic everywhere including our blog discussions as well.
What can you say about the acceptance of accountability, or the lack thereof, by our leaders - for this economic disaster?’
Has a sense of victimization spread rampant through our society, alleviating all responsibility?
It seems as if no one is to blame – so are we all to blame?
Discuss these questions in the context of the Four Principles of Purposeful Action, with examples and appropriate links.
This post was written by Chris Miller, who will lead the discussion for the week starting February 24.
Leadership accountability is a term used to describe the acceptance and fulfillment by managers of their critical role in the overall success of the organization. This term encompasses the achievement of personal and departmental results as well as contribution to reaching the company’s broader goals and vision.
Leadership accountability is evidenced when managers — at all levels and in all departments — clearly understand the company’s vision and strategy, when they deliver results that are aligned with the company’s goals, when they think and act strategically, when they work effectively with other departments and managers, and when they engage and energize employees to achieve high standards of performance.
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Victimization has been expanded to include more that just a person being harmed or an object being taken from a person. It now includes beining inconveninced.
See attached article
http://laughingwolf.net/archives/000798.html
The Cult Of Victimization…. Nice article Roy. Explaisn the different aspects of victimization. Law and justice… Also defines the word victim very nicely.
victimology focuses on whether the perpetrators were complete strangers, mere acquaintances, friends, family members, or even intimates and why a particular person or place was targeted. Criminal victimization may inflict economic costs, physical injuries, and psychological harm.
To overcome problems with official statistics, researchers in many countries have utilized victimization surveys, in which random samples of the population are generally asked whether they have been victims of crime within a specified period of time. Although these surveys have methodological problems (e.g., they rely entirely on the memory of victims), they have generally been more accurate.
Reference:
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1272655/victimization
Victimization:As just one small example of how pervasively we are trained to be victims, consider how often you have said, or heard someone say, “I have to go to work tomorrow.” When we say “I have to” we are making a victim statement. To say, “I have to get up, and I have to go to work,” is a lie. No one forces an adult to get up and go to work. The Truth is “I choose to get up and I choose to go to work today, because I choose to not have the consequences of not working.” To say, “I choose,” is not only the Truth, it is empowering and acknowledges an act of self-Love. When we “have to” do something we feel like a victim. And because we feel victimized, we will then be angry, and want to punish, whomever we see as forcing us to do something we do not want to do such as our family, or our boss, or society.”On a horizontal level empowerment is about choices. Being victimized is about not having choices - about feeling trapped. In order to start becoming empowered in life it is absolutely vital to start owning our choices.
Accountability:The state of being accountable; liability to be called on to render an account; the obligation to bear the consequences for failure to perform as expected; accountableness. Accountability means a responsibility.For example, an auditor will be held accountable to financial statement users relying on the audited financial statements for failure to uncover corporate Fraud because of negligence in applying Generally Accepted Auditing Standards.
Reference:
http://joy2meu.com/Empowerment.html ;
http://www.answers.com/topic/accountability
Hema
The “I have to” staements you make are right to the point of vitimization. We all have the choice to “go to work” , “get up”; these statements have to start with “I choose to”
Individuals need to stop “blaming” their lifes problems on anything but themselves