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What is the difference between responsibility and accountability? Can you give me a reference?

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If something is your responsibility, it is your duty or obligation.
If you are accountable for something, you do not have to be directly in controll over it, but you are still answerable to it.

"Responsibility" focuses more upon what one can and should do, more upon an individual's personal integrity with respect to a specific task: that is, if one is responsible for an action or a thing, then that person has a clear duty to do that action and take care of that thing. To ...

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