Motivation, Job Design, And Socialization In Criminal Justice Practice Test

Experienced responsibility is the sense that you are personally accountable for the outcomes of your work. This feeling grows when you have autonomy—the freedom to decide how to do tasks and to make decisions about how to carry out your duties. That ownership over the process and results is what makes you feel truly responsible for what you produce. The option describing having freedom and feeling personally responsible for one’s work best captures this state. Being trained by a supervisor focuses on instruction and supervision rather than ownership of outcomes. Receiving feedback about results is about knowing how you performed (knowledge of results), not about personal accountability for the work. Feeling that the job is important and valuable relates to experienced meaningfulness, the perceived significance of the work, not the responsibility for its outcomes.