Organizations have become increasingly ungovernable and unwieldy: Performance is declining, accountability is unclear, decision rights are muddy, and data are crunched repeatedly, often with no clear purpose in mind.
"The paradoxical result: A work force with steadily increasing numbers of supervisors and steadily declining accountability, a work force that feels more and more overworked at the same time as its skills move further and further out of balance with the needs of the public it serves".
What followed was an increase in secrecy, waging of undeclared wars, decline of accountability, and an acceptance of the President as Commander in Chief.
But the decline of accountability reporting makes it all the more important for journalists to prioritize what issues need covering. .
In addition, one of the key respondents reported that "there is also a serious decline of accountability and commitment among the staff, and this can be tracked from the hospital topmost administrators down to the care providers".
The decline in accountability appears to be a result of streamlining decision-making processes, which in turn diminishes the role of debate and dissent in the policy process (e.g., less learning by interaction) (Painter 2001).
This is uncharted territory, thanks to the proliferation of opaque mortgage-backed securities, the decline of corporate accountability, the damage inflicted by the Great Recession (though not to Goldman Sachs) and the existence of embarrassingly candid e-mail.
After four years of war, in which the president has declined to seek accountability for torturers and has increased reliance on drone strikes, he said, "these are Obama's policies at this point".
"In some ways he has, but in other ways certainly not". After four years of war, in which the president has declined to seek accountability for torturers and has increased reliance on drone strikes, he said, "these are Obama's policies at this point". In March 2001, Brennan, a longtime CIA Middle East expert, was named deputy executive director of the agency.
His own interest, he tells the reader, has increased "in inverse proportion to the decline in the vibrancy, accountability and sovereignty of our Parliament".
Though the bishops' conference declined to include financial accountability on the bishops' agenda this week in Dallas, it said it was taking steps that some donors seek.
