Ethical organizations acknowledge and accept personal accountability for the ethical quality of their decisions and omissions to themselves and their stakeholders. Accountability works with foremost industries and other organizations to develop tools, strategies, and standards for organizational accountability that drive sustainable performance.
Organizational accountability eliminates the tendency of excuses. When employees make strong and exact commitments for their own work, entire organizations become aligned and realize specific measurable outcomes.
Organizations face ever growing calls to be accountable to their stakeholders; including customers, employees, local communities as well as investors.
Organizational accountability needs to motivate knowledge and influence decision-making in ways that move responsible practices beyond compliance towards strategy, innovation, and performance. This means aligning an organization’s reaction to stakeholder concerns and environmental issues with their plan for long term achievement.