When your actions are guided by strong ethics, morals and beliefs you lay the foundation upon which strong personal character is built.Дoing your job and how you do your job are two different things, and personal responsibility is the differentiator. How you shape that character is up to you, and you do it slowly, over time, through your thoughts and actions. Over time, those images layer together and the resulting composite is your character as perceived by others. Every choice you make shows the world an image of the kind of person you are.

Personal responsibility in the workplace is important because it is a major component of your personal character that gets tested every day. Workplace responsibility, as in executing your job duties or following HR guidelines, is important because it leads to a functioning business and a safe and compliant working environment. Leaders who cultivate responsibility within their teams will see returns in the form of more engaged team members actively looking for ways to deliver stronger results. Responsible leaders create environments which cultivate high performance teams which in turn deliver business results. Responsible workers are more engaged and hold themselves accountable to deliver results. Why is Responsibility important in the workplace? When you conduct yourself with personal responsibility and accountability, you build integrity, and with integrity comes trust and respect-both internally and externally. If things go well, hooray, if things go bad, boohoo, and if nothing really happens, well, cвЂ™est la vie. The accountability aspect of responsibility means you take ownership of the outcome of those choices - good or bad. In any given situation, how you respond is your choice. Responsibility can be thought of as the way you respond to a certain situation. But personal responsibility is not always so neatly outlined. Frequently your responsibilities, as they pertain to you fulfilling the duties of your job, are outlined for you in a document saved somewhere on a server that occasionally gets updated. All of them are slightly different, but they all center around you knowing and following guidelines and being accountable for your actions. In the workplace, responsibility is required in many areas-job duties, corporate guidelines, security, privacy, etc. Responsibility is the state or fact of being accountable or to blame for something a duty or task that you are required or expected to perform something you should do because it is morally right, legally required, etc reliability, dependability. This devotion is based on Marty McLain's book 'The Crown has Fallen: A Study of the Kings of Judah.This is the second entry in my Virtues and Values in the Workplace series. DonвЂ™t blame someone else.В Taking responsibility for your actionsВ will enhance your walk with God,В and it will improve your relationship with others. So, if you are guilty,В then you need to take responsibility. Whatever it may be,В we look for waysВ to absolve ourselves of any culpability for our actions.В This shifting of blame did not work in the Garden of Eden and it will not work in the twenty-first century. It may be a parent, a spouse,В or stress from our job. Like Adam and Eve, weВ have a tendency toВ blame others for our sin. However, we can identify with their response. Neither Adam nor Eve admit their own fault.В Understandably, the concept of sin and repentance was new to thisВ previously-sinlessВ couple. When God confronts Adam, hisВ response is to blame Eve for hisВ sin.В In turn, Eve blames the serpent for deceiving her. Adam and EveвЂ™s initial reactionВ is to hide from God. For the first time,В the emotions ofВ fear and shameВ enterВ intoВ the human experience. Afterwards, she gives the fruit to the man, Adam, and he eats with his eyes wide open.ДЄt this point something changes. The woman, Eve, is tempted by the devil and she eats of the forbidden fruit. In Genesis 3, we read how sinВ entered intoВ the world.

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