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Brian's Accountability Case Study

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Accountability is the potential of taking responsibility in your own actions or goals seriously and wisely. It is not just about being an excellent student with good grades, like Brian bragged about it, but having the ability to manage everything going on in your life. Finding ways to overcome and achieve those goals and not having excuses about it. Brian is a college student, a father, a husband, and a employee; he’s a busy man with a tight schedule. Brian takes classes to pursue his dream, and works a full time job to maintain his family. Additionally, he has problems at home with his wife, Kim, thinking he’s having an affair with a college girl. As well as his son David having trouble with his grades. These events cause him to have more …show more content…

In his house, Brian is trying to help his son improve in school, and make Kim comprehend he really cares about their marriage and no other woman. While in his philosophy class, he is trying to obtain an A on his paper by turning it in on time. It seems that achieving his goals is not quite easy because it seems that he’s a poor communicator. All these events impacted his outcome for his paper in his college class because of the very incompetent and unprofessional way he handled the dilemmas. The outcome wasn’t anyone, but his own fault because he could have handled the situations differently and with more liability. Brian was a very incompetent communicator throughout the whole case. The way he handled the different situations was not helpful at all because it lead to more confusion and chaos between him and the others involved. He was putting more problems to worry about on himself because he didn’t use any of the competent communicator characteristics. The 5 Characteristics of Competent Communicator consists of Wide Range of Behaviors, Self-Monitoring, Cognitive Complexity, Use of Sympathy or Empathy, and Self-Effacing. For instance, Brian could have …show more content…

The first that is to blame is Brian himself. He’s the one with the responsibility of his own actions and not turning in the paper on time. He was the one with poor time-management, and poor communication skills. Secondly, the person that should be to be blame is Kim’s work friend. She was putting ideas into Kim’s mind in order to go against Brian. She would tell Kim how college girls were irresistible and Brian would definitely go after one. This caused Kim to be insecure about herself and argue with Brian. The third person to blame is Kim herself. Kim was listening to her friend, and making assumptions. She wasn’t being a competent communicator herself because she should've asked Brian first before yelling at him. Kim should’ve believed her husband since the most important in a relationship is trust. This caused Brian to feel attacked, and not communicate properly with her. Furthermore, I rank Professor Jessup as second to last least because she didn’t have much to do with Brian’s responsibility, but she should of listened to his reasons when he called. Brian tried to contact her, but she didn’t answer, so he left a voicemail; the professor was a little too harsh for not listening to him. The least person to blame is David because he’s still a young boy who doesn't know what is going on. Like any other small kid, many struggle in school and have problems. It’s not like he is going to solve

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