RESPONSIBILITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY.

 RESPONSIBILITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY.

What do you understand by the two terms?

Accountability is not an abstract concept. It is actually extremely simple. Accountability means saying what you mean, meaning what you say, and doing what you say you're going to do.

In short, accountability is taking responsibility for your words and actions.

Responsibility can be defined as assuming accountability for a task, decision or action. A person is said to be responsible for something when he or she accepts the consequences of something. 

Let’s now look at innovation and creativity. How would you define these two terms in your own words?

INNOVATION AND CREATIVENESS.  

Definitions,

Innovation is the process of translating an idea into a good or service that creates value or for which clients will pay.

Innovation involves deliberate application of information, imagination and initiative in deriving greater or different values from resources, and includes all processes by which new ideas are generated and converted into useful products. 

 Innovation often results when ideas are applied by the health facility in order to further satisfy the needs and expectations of the clients e.g. introducing ‘moon lighting’ to cushion staff shortage in improving patient care. 

Thus, a common sense definition of innovation is that it is a process of finding novel solutions to important problems. 

Creativity is defined as the tendency to generate ideas, alternatives, or possibilities that may be useful in solving problems or communicating with others.

It is the act of turning new and imaginative ideas into reality. Creativity involves two processes:               -     Thinking, then

⦁ Producing. 

If you have ideas, but don’t act on them, you are imaginative but not creative.

In order to be creative, you need to be able to view things in new ways or from a different perspective. Among other things, you need to be able to generate new possibilities or new alternatives.

Now, read through the two terms again and do the following activity.

Activity.

 Write down in your note book your understanding of the difference between creativity and innovation.

What’s the Difference between Creativity and Innovation? 

Creativity refers to the ability to come up with new ideas, the ability to think widely, to have a free and open mind and to approach matters in a new way (act of conceiving). Whereas innovation is the ability to confine the creative ideas and make them turn into reality so as to achieve successful performance (implementation of an idea).