1. PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY: significance and building blocks
Dr Pradip K. Neog
Director, EEI – NE Region

2. Personal responsibility
Personal responsibility is the virtue of taking full charge of own life and everything in it.
It is the virtue of being self-motivated, sincere, committed, courageous and accountable in undertaking the responsibilities and dreams of life.

3. Personal responsibility embraces :
Being responsible for your own feelings, conditions, actions, success, failure, happiness and unhappiness
Being accountable to what you think, say and do
Taking charge of self-development and welfare of others including kith and kin, society, organization, state, country , earth and all living being

4. Personal responsibility embraces :
Being committed to fulfill the moral and legal obligations and accountabilities of life
Being persistent in maintaining the life style that conducive to human values and real purpose of human life

5. Significance of Personal responsibility
People of high personal responsibility are loved, cared, respected and admired by others.
“The most respected people in any company are those who are the most capable of getting the most important jobs done on schedule.’’-James Cash Penney

6. Significance of Personal responsibility
Opportunities, authority, power, position, promotion and recognition flows to responsible person.
“Responsibilities are given to him on whom trust rests. Responsibility is always a sign of trust”. - James Cash Penney

7. Significance of Personal responsibility (contd..)
A person of high personal responsibility gains competencies in their profession and other works at increasing rate
Personal responsibility fosters leadership. In any team or organization, real leader is one who takes the major responsibility in accomplishing missions

8. Significance of Personal responsibility (contd..)
Personal responsibility embeds sincerity, commitment, confidence and dignity of labour into one’s character, and thus develops admiring personality.
Personal responsibility helps maintaining relationships amazingly. Maintaining of any relationship is largely depends on how well you perform your responsibilities relating to the relationships.

9. Significance of Personal responsibility (contd..)
“Responsibility goes hand in hand with success, achievement, motivation, happiness and self-actualization. It’s the absolute minimum requirement for the accomplishment of everything you could ever really want in life.”

10. Responsibilities of human life
Self-development responsibilities
Kith and kin responsibilities
Livelihood responsibilities
Societal responsibilities
Legal responsibilities
Moral responsibilities

11. Domains of personal responsibility
Developing responsibility-consciousness
Maintaining responsibility-readiness
Keeping steering of life
Shunning responsibility-repellents
Being enterprising
Delegating responsibility
Adapting delegated responsibilities
Growing empathy guided responsibility
Balancing responsibilities
Shunning over-care

12. Developing responsibility-consciousness
Performance appraisal
Observation
Retrospection