Resonsibility

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, personal responsibility,...