The phrase 'a shift of responsibility' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to an alteration of a particular person's duties and obligations. For example, "The company underwent a shift of responsibility when the new CEO was appointed."
As I said in the article, there needs to be new law and a shift of responsibility, but we also need to evaluate the quality of the science generated by all involved and be reasonably confident of the results.
He points out that in the UK we are seeing a shift of responsibility from the state and employers on to individuals to make their own provision for themselves and their families if they become unable to remain in employment.
But the results presented here indicate that there seems to be a shift of responsibility towards older siblings when there is an increase in family size (see Table 6).
In the healthcare literature, the shift of responsibility as a situation deteriorates could be written off as just a shift of responsibility required due to an increasingly more complex situation, to an actor with more knowledge (as the hierarchy-competence model does).
Bush has already surpassed Reagan in advocating a shift of responsibilities from government to the private sector, and from the federal governments to the states.
Schwartz noted that there was a shift of responsibilities from employer to employee in this seemingly benign transfer of choice: "When the employer is providing only a few routes to retirement security, it seems important to take responsibility for the quality of those routes.
Decentralization implies a shift of responsibilities and relations between different actors that include policy-makers, regulators, providers, and users, and these need new skills to function and interact.
As the volume of patients under HIV/AIDS care and treatment services grows and services are decentralized, nurses may experience a shift of responsibilities, with even larger roles in initial evaluation and staging of patients, ART initiation, and patient monitoring [ 3].
Interestingly, Colin also talked about health care professionals being 'in charge' of him and being 'in their hands', symbolising a shifting of responsibilities: "We're in their hands aren't we really because we're in a system where – you know, we're not lying out in the desert and we don't have to come up with a tourniquet and bite on a piece of wood, do we?
Automated driving systems shift the responsibility for roadway and traffic monitoring, decision making, and vehicle control from the driver to the automated driving system, which will necessitate a shift of the responsibility for traffic law violations and crashes from the individual driver toward the manufacturers of the automated driving systems.
Critics of this movement, however, express the view that the strategic application of community as a central social policy tactic seems to be less about inventing a new social architecture for Canada and more about a shift of government responsibility to the individual away from society as a whole through state institutions.
