Importance Of Accountability

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IMPORTANCE OF ACCOUNTABILITY, FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS, AND HOW DISOBEYING MAY AFFECT MY UNIT, ITS MEMBERS, AND MISSION READINESS
In leadership roles, accountability is the acknowledgment and assumption of responsibility for actions, products, decisions, and policies including the administration, and implementation within the scope of the role or soldier position. Accountability also encompasses the obligation to report, explain, and answer for resulting consequences. As leaders often make decisions with far-reaching consequences, accountability has a substantial ethical component. Accountability is very important in the ARMY. Being accountable for something means that you are willing to be responsible for your own actions, being responsible
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This in turn could affect everything. Also if you don't follow direct instructions it is very possible to do things wrong. So you should always take careful steps and know what you are supposed to do and what is best. If you don’t follow instructions you are disobeying, this may affect my unit, all members and could also affect my mission. It will affect my unit by making them being late because they wait for me, it also would make them look bad on everyone’s eyes in the battalion or even the whole state. It will also affect all members of my unit. First, it will start by my commander and first sergeant; they will lose credibility by all higher ups thinking that they are not able to accomplish any mission. Commander and first sergeant will look down to their platoon sergeants looking for the responsible of this act; platoon sergeants will be affected by losing their time talking to section sergeants trying to find an answer, and section sergeants will be affected wasting their time talking to every single one of their soldiers finding the responsible, this will be total chaos. By disobeying will also affect mission and mission readiness. It will affect mission by not being able to accomplish in a time given or date. Failing a mission in the ARMY is