Responsibility

1. What is responsibility?

The word "responsibility"/ Hispanoteca - Language and culture/ derived from the Latin word "responsum" (one who is obliged to answer for something or someone). The verbs "Respondere" and "Spondere" are closely related and have been widely used in the legal field. The former meant a defence or the pleading of a fact in a court of law, while the latter meant an oath, a promise or the assumption of an obligation".

We can therefore say that a responsible person accepts the results of the decisions he or she makes. Responsibility can be defined as "the capacity of each person to understand and accept the consequences of an act freely done".

What are the benefits of being responsible?

There are many benefits to being responsible. It can help you achieve your goals and objectives in any area of life. Being responsible allows you to develop values and helps you to direct your life path. Being a responsible person helps us:

- Be more honest: When we are willing to tell the truth and keep our promises, those around us will trust us and consider us an honest person.

- To be more independent: by accepting the consequences of our actions, we can make better decisions.

Being more trustworthy: by being responsible, we earn the trust of others. But more importantly, we will also gain confidence in ourselves. Doing the right thing will make us feel good. And even if we make mistakes, we will be satisfied because we will know that we did our best.

However, responsibility can generally be understood as a conscious decision and behaviour by an individual to improve and/or help others.

2. Moral responsibility.

Moral responsibility. The term "moral responsibility" refers to the responsibilities that individuals and groups have. As such, they must act in accordance with moral principles that are relevant to their social communities and to humanity.

3. Business responsibility

Business and management responsibility refers to someone’s duty (often depending on the level of position) to perform or complete a task. This task may be assigned by someone (a hierarchically higher person or at the request of colleagues) or it may be self-initiated.

Business responsibility means a company’s obligation to carry out tasks and have a positive impact on society. The key aspects of business responsibility include:

1. Environmental efforts: focusing on reducing the company’s carbon footprint.

2. Philanthropy: donating money, products, or services to social causes and non-profit organizations.

3. Ethical labor practices: treating employees with fairness and ethics.

4. Employee Responsibility

• Loyalty: You must not do anything that would harm the company.

• Honesty: You must be fair to employers, colleagues, and clients.

• Time management and deadlines: You must ensure that each task is completed on time and within the set deadline.

• Health and safety: You must take care of your own safety and the safety of others.

• Professionalism: You should be committed to performing your work with quality.

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5. Guidelines for Becoming Responsible

Guidelines on how to achieve this:

-          Set goals: it's important to know what we are doing something for. Having a sense of purpose and direction helps us to be consistent and to keep doing our duty. If you think the goal is long-term, set small goals to achieve it. Write them down. It seems silly, but writing them down on paper makes them real. If they are only in your head, if you don't keep them to yourself, nobody will know. Writing down your goals can help you be more accountable!

-          Objectivity: Make a list of things that are within your control. Your focus should be on these aspects, because what is out of your control is not your responsibility.

-          Routine: organise yourself better. If you have a routine, you will always know what to do. But not only that, sometimes it helps to know how long you have to push yourself.

-          Reward yourself: this is where inner attributes come into play. If you have achieved what you proposed, why not recognise it? This is your moment, honour yourself.

-          Be honest with yourself: did you fail? Was it up to you to have a different outcome? Take responsibility, accept the consequences and analyse what you could have done differently? How would you improve it on another occasion?

-          Share your plans: take your brother, your mum or your best friend and tell them what you're going to do, when you're going to do it and how you're going to do it... Also let him know that you expect him to ask how? You can't run away anymore, you have to comply!

-          Operationalise: this means that the things you can take responsibility for are actions.