ACCOUNTABILITY IN PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS (A STUDY OF THE NIGERIAN STOCK EXCHANGE) MEANING AND NATURE OF ACCOUNTABILITY: Introduction: Incidents of a lack of accountability‚ often associated with an element of corruption‚ among public officials and institutions when rendering public services‚ is a worldwide occurrence. In an attempt to address this governance tendency‚ governments increasingly look towards more sophisticated managerial methods such as improved monitoring and evaluation systems‚ and
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* * * * * Accountability in Health Care * Erika Denton * August 31‚ 2011 * HCS/475 Instructor David R. Campbell * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Accountability * Accountability in health care is important for management and legal reasons. There are different areas of accountability professional competence‚ legal and ethical conduct‚ and financial performance‚ adequacy of access‚ public health promotion
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Accountability Accountability a word that is most often used and has several meanings‚ to give an example is responsibility‚ blameworthiness‚ liability and other terms. Accountability can be used is many places such as work‚ home and even on a battle field‚ it can also be used for little things for instance "taking a piece of paper from one destination to another" you are responsible for that piece of paper its condition and whether or not it gets to it destination. Or big things such as taking
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individual. See also accountability. (DOD) The obligation imposed by law or lawful order or regulation on an officer or other person for keeping accurate record of property‚ documents‚ or funds. The person having this obligation may or may not have actual possession of the property‚ documents‚ or funds. Accountability is concerned primarily with records‚ while responsibility is concerned primarily with custody‚ care‚ and safekeeping. See also responsibility. Accountability is a concept in ethics
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Achieving Competitive Advantage with Information Systems Lecture Note 003 TIM50‚ 2012 Autumn Announcements 1. HW # 1 due Next Thursday paper or electronic submission(Web page) 2. Business Paper Preferences ‚ Due 10-11-2012(Web Page) 3. Computer Lab Hour(if you know Microsoft Access‚ You may not attend) Date Time : Oct 10 and 11 : 08:00 -09:30 PM Location: Baskin Engineering Building Room 109 Instructor: TAs. * Due to space limit: you should arrange Date and time(All class are same)
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Accountability and Responsibility The National Council of State Boards in Nursing defines delegation as "transferring to a competent individual the authority to perform a selected nursing task in a selected situation" (National Council of State Boards of Nursing‚ Resources section‚ 4). When delegating‚ the registered nurse (RN) assigns nursing tasks to unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP) while still remaining accountable for the patient and the task that was assigned. Delegating is a management
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Accountability is defined by department of defense as the obligation imposed by a law or lawful order or regulation on an officer or other person for keeping an accurate record of government property‚ documents or funds. The numerical end product of personnel accountability process reflects the combat power of a unit. So what is Personnel accountability exactly? Personnel accountability is a by name tracking system that manages the duty status and location of every single soldier assigned or
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AUTHORITY‚ ACCOUNTABILITY & RESPONSIBILITY By Yusop B. Masdal I. INTRODUCTION Delegation (or deputation) is the assignment of authority and responsibility to another person (normally from a manager to a subordinate) to carry out specific activities (Blair‚ gerald 2002). However the person who delegated the work remains accountable for the outcome of the delegated work. Delegation empowers a subordinate to make decisions‚ i.e. it is a shift of decision-making authority from one organizational
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Resistance to accountability is inevitable as many parties stand to lose from it. Apart from unavoidability‚ there exist unswerving insecurities‚ why people oppose accountability. The primary reason people resist accountability is that if it appears as reducing remunerations‚ entitlements‚ or privileges‚ individuals will perhaps resist it. On the other hand‚ it’s most likely that people impartially want to maintain the status quo in order to keep their fraudulent activities undetected. An experience
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Accountability Legal Accountability: this means you have to follow the law that has been made at all times and you have to be seen as following the law. The police enforce this is taken very strictly. For example‚ the police have the: • Authority whose job is to oversee their work • Inspections by the Queens inspectors • Inspection by the Adult Commission • The independent Police Complaints Commission • The media‚ as they will publicise and may even twist things up to make it sound worse
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