- Results of the second survey
- Employees just as responsible as bosses
- Age increases personal responsibility
- Belief in self-efficacy increases the quality of responsibility
- Our conclusion at the Grundl Leadership Institute: "responsibility ."
A sense of responsibility does not automatically improve with career level. This is confirmed by the figures in the 2018 Responsibility Index. The representative study of 1,000 respondents shows that neither money nor position have any influence on a person's sense of responsibility – rather, it is identification, belief in self-efficacy, and learning from one's own experiences.
The 2018 survey confirms what was already apparent last year. leader leader hardlyleader in terms of the quality of their responsibility. Bosses are just as responsible or irresponsible as employees. Income also has no effect on this. There is no correlation between salary level and the quality of responsibility . We at GLI emphasize that all of this shows that responsibility is responsibility aspect that is given far too little attention in the development of managers.
The proportion of leader increased responsibility has grown by just one percentage point compared to the previous year. This minimal increase can be explained by the higher age of leader surveyed. Age increases personal responsibility – as the index also shows: a sense of responsibility grows with age. The older the respondent, the higher the value. The majority of younger respondents have low scores in terms of responsibility. Among 90 percent of those under 30, the focus on personal responsibility is responsibility to very low.
In addition to age, belief in one's own self-efficacy measurably increases the quality of responsibility. The figures prove that the more strongly people responsibility with their responsibility , or see the cause of their actions as lying within themselves, the higher the quality of responsibility. The more people see themselves as the creators of their own lives, the more clearly they see responsibility. And the stronger the belief in one's own independence, the greater the willingness responsibility take responsibility .
Boris Grundl: "Our 20 years of experience show that a conscious approach to responsibility is responsibility core of human development. The index reveals that companies need to strengthen their focus on this area. This includes clarifying what the topic actually means for them and what level of responsibility expect from their managers and employees." Second insight: "responsibility learned if you engage with it and take action," emphasizes the management trainer. "The quality of responsibility grows through identification, through freedom for self-efficacy, and through learning from experience. That's why we teach smart distinctions at our institute. So that life becomes the best teacher and everyone becomes the best they can be," explains Grundl.
The detailed results of the survey are now available for viewing and as a PDF download at www.verantwortungsindex.de. Further information is available from the Grundl Leadership Institute.
Your team at the Grundl Leadership Institute
The Responsibility Index measures the quality of responsibility, i.e., how clearly respondents recognize responsibility three dimensions: human (who is responsibility?), factual (what is the responsibility?) and principled (what is the responsibility for?) in themselves and others. The respective value of "responsibility quality" shows the extent to which we as a society possess the ability to act in each dimension or how balanced our attention to the issue is. 100 percent represents a responsibility utopia. Every member of our society can perfectly assess their own responsibility that of their fellow human beings and act accordingly. At 0 percent, we experience the exact opposite—a dystopia in which no one perceives their own responsibility or responsibility or takes it into account in their own actions. The index will regularly measure, map, and publish the current social status on the topic responsibility . www.verantwortungsindex.de
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