Dear Dimitry,
as regards the meanings of words, dictionaries are the authoritative source.
I would propose you check this one:
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/responsibility
Although it makes little sense for a responsible person to have no
authorization, the other direction does not hold; it is typical that people
are authorized to do things that are to be reviewed by a responsible person.
For instance, a product manager may be responsible for the specification,
but that is not to say that the manager has to write the spec himself. A
developer writes the spec, while the manager provides feedback. So the
developer is authorized to write the spec, but is not responsible for it.
If a person is responsible for handling bug reports, she is obliged to do
so. If she is authorized, she can do it, but does not have to. In an
open-source project, such a distinction seems to me more important than in a
corporate setting.
Best regards,
Dan
On Feb 10, 2008 5:15 PM, Dimitry Polivaev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Dan,
>
> > If I speak of "responsibility" and mean "accountability",
> > "answerability", and "I am obliged to", while someone else speaks of
> > "responsibility" and means "authorization" and "I am allowed to", the
> > result is a misunderstanding. The contrast is as big as the one
> > between right to do something and duty to do something.
>
> I am afraid that I used the words in the wrong way because I used them
> in the meaning coming from German. The German words "Zuständigkeit" und
> "Verantwortung" can be both translated by an English word
> "responsibility", but they actually assume both "responsibility" and
> "authorization" . It comes from the idea that somebody who is
> responsible for something is usually authorized to do it and to take
> necessary decisions about it. Does the English word "responsibility" has
> another meaning?
>
> Dimitry
>
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