New Accountability and the NEWORKerAccountability is the constraint placed on the behaviour of people by institutions, organisations and peers having the power to apply sanctions. Accountability has four basic components: transparency, answerability, controllability and verification. In being accountable the NEWORKer takes on the responsibility to carry out a given mandate and to justify the decisions and actions according to applicable rules and regulations. These rules and regulations are imposed from any of a number of sources including the state, the employer, the environment of the business and the people involved in that business. Accountability in the NEWORK sense is the idea that people entrusted with the task, project or contract own the accountability; both directly and indirectly through the contract of " engagement" and indirectly through delegated authority to institutional checks and controls. The NEWORKer is conscious of that accountability from both ensuring the best possible performance under the contract of engagement and looking at the longer term relationship with the business. |
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