Revised Accountability Statement

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The Accountability Principle team offers the following Accountability Culture statement for discussion:

                             WSU LIBRARIES ACCOUNTABILITY CULTURE

WSU Libraries have adopted the concept of an “Accountability Culture” with the goal of emphasizing and reinforcing both the autonomy and the responsibility of individual employees within the organizational framework. This concept includes the following characteristics:

An Accountability Culture supports and sustains personal accountability from each employee. Elements of personal accountability include:

• defining your working relationship with an organization as a contribution toward that organization's goals

• acknowledging the impact that the quality of your own work and working relationships has on others within the organization and beyond

• taking responsibility for your actions and accepting the outcome of those actions; the results may be either positive or negative.

An Accountability Culture promotes creative, resourceful thought and action by challenging each employee to hone skills and to express ideas and insights.

An Accountability Culture inspires life-long learning by encouraging employees to investigate new developments in fields related to libraries and to explore their own interests within the context of their work.

An Accountability Culture endorses self-awareness, especially with regard to how actions affect others, by cultivating attentive dialogue and cooperative conflict resolution.

An Accountability Culture fosters clear and open communication by affirming active listening as a skill and respecting the value of honest articulation of issues and concerns.

11/15/06 NEW: An Accountability Culture incorporates these values as integral to the functioning of groups and units within the organization.