Workplace Accountability Quotes

Why - because as a oil and gas small business owner - I know if someone is not doing their job, they should not get paid. Again leadership by example.

Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss.

The twin sister to autonomy and freedom is responsibility and accountability. You cannot have one with out the other. If someone is given an area of responsibility, not only must they be set free to do it, they must also be held accountable for what they do. Accountability clarifies freedom. In the teams and companies where you see boundary confusion, power struggles, control, over-reaching of one's line of responsibility, you will also see lapses in accountability as well.

I learned in business that you had to be very careful when you told somebody that's working for you to do something, because the chances were very high he'd do it. In government, you don't have to worry about that.

Whistleblowers deserve protection, but employees are not federal agents.

I'm not a reporter, so I get to say whatever - and then I'll get called into the office.

My greatest mistake? I once took a three-day maternity leave. I had my daughter on a Wednesday, and then went back to the office on the Monday to sack a manager.

As employees, we are all given specific duties and carrying out these duties provides us with a great sense of responsibility.

If you're not going to do your job, get out of here. Don't mess up my work. This is how I feed my family.

Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs.

I used to work at Kroger's. When the store opened, you were there. When I worked in an automobile plant, you punched in. So it showed if you were a minute late. If you have a paid job, you show up.

I always do my firing in the morning because that's when I'm fresh.

I work for a place that's been great to me over the years, and when you make a mistake, you're hurting your company as well.

There is no business in America that would be prevented from taking results into account when making personnel decisions.

We will also have a more rigorous approach to professional development and managing unsatisfactory performance.

All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

I am fully on board with the Wellness Policy. Even after being suspended by it, I'm fully on board with it. I think it's really keeping people healthy in general.

I haven't really had too many bosses. Any bad boss I had probably was because I was a bad employee.

Doling out punishment constantly [to civil servants] would only cause them to have a mentality of 'the less one does, the fewer mistakes one makes’.

If you can't handle some of the basic stuff that's become a problem in the workforce today, then you don't belong in the workforce.

Netflix is famous for its corporate culture, which rightly emphasizes directness and personal responsibility.

People are salaried for the work they do, not the specific hours they sit at their desks. When you ding salaried employees for showing up five minutes late even though they routinely stay late and put in time on the weekend, you send the message that policies take precedence over performance.

Sam Walton instilled ownership of the products in the stores into the collective consciousness of every associate regardless of what job they did for the company.

You have to be responsible when you're running an organization, and firing people who are your friends is part of that responsibility.

I learned very early in my career that when I don't arrive on set, production will shut down, which means people won't get paid; there's that much responsibility.