Eine neuer Weg zur Beschreibung beruflicher Leistung: Eigenverantwortung

Self-responsible behavior is introduced as a new part of work performance. It is defined as an organizational behavior, which should be well adapted to a difficult and extra-ordinary situation lacking a well-defined task. A decreasing frequency of clearly defined tasks and roles is observable because of changes due to general restructuring, cutting off hierarchy levels and out-sourcing of major organizational functions. Employees acting in a self-responsible manner face these situations by defining their tasks on their own risk. Other new theories of extra-role behavior (e.g. organizational citizenship behavior, contextual performance or whistle blowing) are classified as either self-responsible or as “carrying out one′s duty” regarding the criteria ‘usefulness for the organization’ and ‘gratuitousness of acts’.