Does Accountability Means Blame?

Some may consider an accountability-based environment is an environment of accusation & blame and “holding people’s feet in the fire” which leads to low performance while a responsibility-based environment is a more empowering environment, and this leads to high performance and happier employees. This is based on the belief that accountability is not shared while responsibility is. So, if there are many employees who are responsible of performing a task (or set of tasks), only one employee (or a leader) is accountable for the results of this task (or set of tasks) and its consequences.

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