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Responsibility is the First of the Seven Competences of the Sustainably Competent Professional: it's the 'R' in RESFIA+D.
> For the numbered notes, such as (1), see below.
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Responsibility: A sustainably competent professional bears responsibility for their own work.
Level 3: Apply | Level 4: Integrate | Level 5: Improve | Level 6: Innovate |
R1. Create a stakeholder analysis based on consequence scope and consequence period
> You name the direct stakeholders of a certain professional activity within your own discipline. (1) > For these stakeholders you describe the short term consequences of your actions. > For each of these stakeholders you describe their stakes. (2) | > You determine the consequence scope and the consequence period (3) of a professional activity beyond the borders of your own discipline (4). > Based on this, you make a stakeholder analysis, in which you describe for the direct and the indirect stakeholders (5) what their stake is. > Doing this, you involve your own actions and decisions and those of the teams (6) or the organisation you are a part of. | > You involve the conclusions of the stakeholder analysis in the design, performance and accounting of the activity. > You do this in cooperation with the stakeholders or their representatives. > Thus you contribute to a balanced weighing of interests according to the categories ‘people’, ‘planet’ and ‘profit’ or ‘prosperity’. | > You describe possible consequences for the stakeholders, including the possible future stakeholders, on the long term. > You describe them from several possible future scenario’s. (7) > You use the outcomes for the redesign of the work, its goals and its methods of yourself, your organization and your line of business. |
R2. Take personal responsibility
> You feel and show responsibility for your professional activities and their consequences. | > You feel and show shared responsibility for the professional activities performed by the teams you lead or belong to, and for their consequences. > Doing this, you put the activities, as far as possible and relevant, in a societal, economic, scientific, natural or other broader context. | > Based on this responsibility you work regularly on improvement of the professional activities and their goals, aiming at a positive contribution to aspects of sustainable development. > Wherever several of your professional responsibilities conflict with each other, you make a careful weighing and act accordingly. | > You realize your professional responsibility pro-actively, by relating it to present and possible future developments and trends. |
R3. Be held personally accountable with respect to society: transparency
> You describe your professional activity, their goals and results, and the consequences for stakeholders openly and honestly towards your direct colleagues, peers and executives. (8) | > You do this also towards a variety of other stakeholders (9), in a for each of them comprehensible and attractive way. | > You ask and get feedback from those to whom you render account to in this way, and you use this to continuously improve your activities. | > You yourself organize the total of target groups to which, and the methods with which you render account. |
1. This concerns e.g. individuals, groups, organizations, countries, animals, natural habitats, etc., or their representatives.
2. This includes both positive and negative interests or combinations thereof.
3. Consequence scope: total range of people, organizations, nature and the environment for which a decision, a practice or a lifestyle has consequences.
Consequence period: the time it takes before the consequences of a decision have vanished.
4. If you work on your own, this involves a multidisciplinary approach. If you work in a team in which other disciplines are represented, it is an interdisciplinary approach. See Competence E, footnote 6.
5. Direct stakeholders: e.g. colleagues, employees, customers/clients/students/patients, suppliers, financiers, shareholders.
Indirect stakeholders: e.g. families of colleagues and employees, including those working for upstream and downstream companies; people living in the vicinity of factories and distribution centres; the local community; the competition; industry peers, governments, centres of expertise, education, the international community; livestock animals, wildlife, nature as a whole; future generations, i.e. human beings not yet even born.
6. E.g. a student group, a department, a corporation, a commission.
7. Future scenario: a description of the events that could take place in a possible future.
8. This may be in the shape of formal reports, presentations, publications, books etc., and besides (but not exclusively) in a more informal way through e.g. conversations, stories, columns, websites, Facebook, tweets, LinkedIn, YouTube, participation in online forums, TV programs.
9. Such as: interest groups, civilians, members of your family, neighbors, journalists, government employees, schools.