Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
accountability vs. responsibility
Spanish translation:
cumplimiento vs responsabilidad
Added to glossary by
Tadzio (X)
Aug 2, 2004 03:15
19 yrs ago
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English term
accountability vs. responsibility
English to Spanish
Bus/Financial
Management
Organisational performance
The context requires both terms to be translated differently.
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CONTEXT:
"2.3 Accountability and Responsibility
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The importance of the concepts of Accountability and Responsibility was recognised at least 50 years ago (e.g. Sarasohn & Protzman, 1948, SS II.) Yoshikazu Tsuda (personal communication) distinguishes as follows: _Accountability_ relates to being chraged with ensuring that certain outcomes are achieved; and _Responsibility_ to being charged with carrying out certain tasks. The types of measrues that managers need to monitor of report relate directly to their areas of accountability and responsibility.
Top management of an organization will have wide accountability in relation to performance. They will 'operationalise' their accountability through the designation of specific responsibilities and delegation of appropriate authority. Senior management will retain specific responsibilities that they will personally execute; in large organisations, there are significant differences between their accountabilities and their responsibilities. For people without management responsibilities working within the organisation, accountability and responsibility overlap to the point of being largely indistinguishable."
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Type of document: A paper on the application of statistics to measure organisational performance.
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I found some entries using "SEarch Glossaries" and "KudoZ Search" but none made a distinction between the two.
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Thanks for your help
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CONTEXT:
"2.3 Accountability and Responsibility
[...]
The importance of the concepts of Accountability and Responsibility was recognised at least 50 years ago (e.g. Sarasohn & Protzman, 1948, SS II.) Yoshikazu Tsuda (personal communication) distinguishes as follows: _Accountability_ relates to being chraged with ensuring that certain outcomes are achieved; and _Responsibility_ to being charged with carrying out certain tasks. The types of measrues that managers need to monitor of report relate directly to their areas of accountability and responsibility.
Top management of an organization will have wide accountability in relation to performance. They will 'operationalise' their accountability through the designation of specific responsibilities and delegation of appropriate authority. Senior management will retain specific responsibilities that they will personally execute; in large organisations, there are significant differences between their accountabilities and their responsibilities. For people without management responsibilities working within the organisation, accountability and responsibility overlap to the point of being largely indistinguishable."
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Type of document: A paper on the application of statistics to measure organisational performance.
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I found some entries using "SEarch Glossaries" and "KudoZ Search" but none made a distinction between the two.
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Thanks for your help
Proposed translations
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Proposed translations
+8
7 mins
Selected
cumplimiento vs responsabilidad
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Peer comment(s):
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Refugio
: This works well in this case, which is a somewhat arbitrary definition of accountability (long-term) and responsibility (short-term), but it also works in the usual sense of external and internal locus of control.
50 mins
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agree |
Lisa Russell
: I agree with Ruth
2 hrs
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agree |
Alicia Jordá
5 hrs
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agree |
Mónica Belén Colacilli
9 hrs
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agree |
Rene Ron
: This is a good way to say it in this case.
11 hrs
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agree |
Adriana Adarve (X)
14 hrs
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agree |
cba1
1 day 17 mins
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agree |
Yanina Cheij
4268 days
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Graded automatically based on peer agreement."
+2
8 mins
rendición de cuentas vs responsabilidad
mi sugerencia
Peer comment(s):
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Manuel Cedeño Berrueta
: …accountability (…) rendición de cuentas a terceros,… se es responsable… http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/clad/u... rendición de cuentas y responsabilidad… http://www.asambleanacional.gov.ve/ns2/leyes.asp?id=332
8 hrs
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muchas gracias Manuel, obre todo por las referencias!
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Patricia Torres
504 days
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+1
1 hr
Responsabilidad para las consecuencias
I have had this problem in many corporate level translations, and finally have realised that the difference between responsibilty and acountability is that, accountability means that one has responsiblity for the consequences of their decisions, actions etc.
10 hrs
Responsabilidad directa y responsabilidad global (o final).
Si bien estoy de acuerdo con la explicación de Ruth, cumplim. y resp. son sinónimos en este contexto. Por eso creo que habría que buscar alguna diferencia en los grados de responsabilidad; al fin y al cabo, se refiere a responsabilidad en los dos casos. Lo que sugiero apunta a diferenciar las dos responsabilidades.
Discussion
monitor of report -> monitor or report