"blurred responsibility" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation in which it is unclear or difficult to determine who is responsible for something. Example: The company's complex organizational structure created blurred responsibility, making it difficult to hold anyone accountable for the failed project.
The dual-regulation model in which the Rail Regulator and the Strategic Rail Authority SRAA) divide up responsibility for controlling the industry has led, the paper notes, to personal conflicts and blurred responsibilities.
Recent empirical evidence suggests that decentralization challenges the stakes of democratic control by blurring responsibility attribution between levels of government.
For example, the long life of CO2 in the atmosphere raises philosophically and politically difficult questions about historical responsibility for climate change, just as the importing and exporting of goods blurs responsibility for contemporary emissions.
A study on surgical staff within the US National Institutes of Health points out that two significant factors causing critical incidents were "blurred boundaries of responsibility" and "distorted or inhibited communication" [10].
Nash suggested that work developing so-called "automatic target recognition" was already blurring the responsibilities between the task of the machine and its human controllers.
Among the Bedouin, lines of protection for in-group members were clearly drawn; in Mecca, sedentarization and socioeconomic stratification had begun to blur family responsibilities and foster the growth of an oligarchy whose economic objectives could easily supersede other motivations and values.
Darek Urbaniak, a campaigner on extractive industries for Friends of the Earth Europe, in Belgium, said the number of countries with maritime claims in the Mediterranean and the lack of well-established borders could blur cleanup responsibilities in case of a spill.
The judge's decision was a model of common sense and a rebuke to the partisan misreading of Florida statutes by Ms. Harris, who has blurred her twin responsibilities as chief arbiter of the state's election laws and her role as a Bush supporter.
42 43 Conversely, blurring boundaries of responsibility and accountability may result in no one taking responsibility.
"I accept that it was a mistake to allow distinctions to be blurred between my professional responsibilities and my personal loyalty to a friend".
