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In today’s competitive environment, it is no longer good enough to offer employees a good place to work.  Rather, it is imperative a company creates a work environment where the best want to work.  Only when such an environment exists will a company attract and retain the most knowledgeable, skilled, and accomplished employees; who in-turn will effectively execute its activities and make it a viable competitor in an increasingly aggressive marketplace.

Accountability makes a workplace the place where the best performers want to be because of a shared drive for excellence.  These organizations, through the individual and collective behaviors of their people, continuously and consequentially pursue performance improvement and achievement of the organization’s mission.  The best performers, motivated by one or more of a variety of rewards such as contribution, recognition, advancement, compensation, and control, seek out highly accountable organizations because these organizations feed their motivations while at the same time presenting them with the challenge to continually improve.

In less accountable organizations, rewards are often disseminated on an other than performance basis.  Subsequently, high achievers will leave less accountable organizations because their accomplishments are not duly rewarded nor their motivations satisfied.  Organizations having low accountability will have difficulty attracting and will not retain high performers unless circumstances outside the organization compel these individuals to join and stay.  Thus, the level of an organization’s accountability will determine the caliber of the individuals associated with it.

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Accountable organizations share key structural, process, and cultural attributes.   These attributes will be more fully explored in the upcoming discussions within the members’ only category, Organizational Accountability, and in the members’ only podcast, The Accountable Organization.  Membership is FREE!  If you have not already registered, please do so today and join the conversation.

Additional Resources

StrategyDriven contributors recommend the following resources that elaborate or compliment the Attract the Best with Accountability best practice:

The Welch Way: Being a Talent Magnet (a free BusinessWeek podcast)
by Jack and Suzy Welch

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t
by Jim Collins

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