These dispersed responsibilities make it difficult to manage the overall acceptance process, assure accountability of all participants, and to acquire and retain good records of the results so that they are easily accessible.
Editors use it in communication with their writers to disperse responsibility for bad news and to imply that difficult decisions have been reached by consensus: "we" thought that the piece could lose a thousand words; "we" didn't quite see the point of your opening anecdote.
"The government is dispersing responsibility for delivering the legacy and we need clarity about who is accountable".
23 Coherence of national direction is therefore essential to avoid dispersing responsibility and accountability, and creating confusing messages and signals.
In practice, responsibilities are often dispersed: "Feeling more responsible than one's actual responsibility is most common.
"There is a general consensus that putting one elected official in charge of education is preferable to the former governance arrangement that dispersed authority and responsibility," the report states, but it adds, "The law needs to be amended for additional checks on the power of the mayor".
The House has a temporary special committee on domestic security while the Senate has none, dispersing those responsibilities through its committees like Defense, Appropriations and Commerce.
In most countries, responsibility is dispersed and there is a lack of adequate institutions, she says.
To keep good teachers in troubled schools, we must develop the collaborative culture, collective responsibility, widely dispersed leadership, schoolwide commitment to the learning of each student, and celebration of incremental progress that characterizes high-performing professional learning communities.
