Mastering Personal and Team Responsibility

Building Personal and Team Responsibility in the Workplace

• Personal responsibility involves being dependable and consistent in following through with tasks.
• Financial responsibility includes budgeting money, especially when living on your own.
• Private responsibility involves keeping personal issues separate from work and maintaining a balanced lifestyle.
• Team responsibility involves being a team player and taking responsibility for team relationships.
• Avoiding team conflicts and working towards consensus is important in team responsibility.
• The success of the team becomes more important than personal success in team responsibility.
• Personal initiative involves acting on your own initiative and not waiting for someone to tell you what to do.
• Admitting mistakes and taking responsibility is important in personal and team responsibility.
• Employers value responsibility and dependability more than anything else.
• Building personal responsibility involves keeping a clean living space, paying bills on time, and performing small tasks in a punctual manner.
• Balancing schedules to get enough sleep and perform well at work is important in building personal responsibility.
• Building team responsibility involves respecting and valuing team members, avoiding conflicts, and taking responsibility for team relationships.

Ethics and Responsibility in Teamwork

• Personal responsibility for team relationships is essential in a working team.
• Team members must take responsibility for their team's development and draw out quieter members.
• Respect and value the members of your team, as the team's success becomes more important than personal success.
• Ethics are a set of moral principles that govern behavior and decision-making.
• Ethics involve demonstrating respect for key moral principles such as honesty, fairness, equality, dignity, diversity, and individual rights.
• Decision-making based on entities and their respective values is crucial in ethical behavior.
• Constitution and law are given and must not be broken, while ethics are a personal choice.
• Ethical decision-making approaches include the utilitarian, rights, fairness and justice, common good, and virtue.
• Utilitarian approach focuses on the greatest good for the greatest number and the least harm.
• Rights approach emphasizes human dignity and the fundamental moral right to have choices respected.
• Fairness and justice approach focuses on treating people the same unless there are morally relevant differences between them.
• Common good approach assumes a society whose own good is linked to the good of the community, and virtue approach emphasizes the development of moral virtues in individuals and communities.