What is the real difference between accountability vs responsibility in a workplace?

[Voila]

How does accountability vs responsibility affect team roles and ownership?
Why is understanding accountability vs responsibility important for managers?

 

[Jonas_Kahnwald]

Responsibility refers to the work or tasks that you're expected to do, whereas accountability is about owning the final result. You may be given the responsibility of finishing a job, but accountability means that you're the one to be held accountable if it goes well or badly, even if there were other people involved.

 

[James Miller]

Responsibility is the work or the job that an employee is or ought to do whereas accountability is ultimate responsibility of the job or task done by the responsible employee or worker which results in the success or failure of that job or work done, irrespective of the person or the worker that did the work.

 

[Daxton]

Responsibility means being assigned tasks and duties to complete. Accountability means owning the outcomes of those tasks, including success or failure. Responsibility can be shared, but accountability usually rests with one person who answers for results.