Personal responsibility is a big thing in my opinion. You hear a lot about it these days in regards to adjustable rate mortgages and the people who weren’t able to afford them. I like to relate it to the business side of things, and the workplace.
To me, companies have policies and rules for a reason. And it is up to us as individuals to follow them. If your workplace has a dress code, then it is your personal responsibility to follow it. Should a manager really have to address something so basic?
I tailor my management style along the same philosophy. I see many managers running around trying to get their employees to do basic things such as follow a dress code and do their basic job duties on a daily basis. To me, those are basic expectations that I hold people accountable for not completing.
To me there is no sense in allowing such things to happen. When you are hired, trained, or promoted, you are given job responsibilities. How can you expect to be allowed to continue to work and not at least meet those responsibilities?
The positive side of a bad thing like our current recession is that it creates a more competitive job market. This is beneficial to those who are seeking high performance individuals. Now is the time to weed out your non performers and replace them with good folks who may have lost out not because of their individual job performance, but the short sightedness of the companies that they formally worked for.
Somewhere along the way we lost the pride and competitive advantage that we had in this country. And a lot of it spawned from people who developed the ideal that someone would take care of them. It’s time that we shift personal responsibility back into the workplace, as well as our personal lives and take advantage of a rare opportunity.
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