The notion of “accountability” is a currently fashionable within the community of scholars, regulators and activists concerned with privacy and data protection. At one level, it has always been a central principle within these laws and policies, and is implicit if not explicit in every attempt to make organizations more responsible for the personal data they collect and process. At one level, t...

introduction: although the contribution of organizational learning to employee organizational performance is well documented, the mechanisms that explain such relationship remain unclear. accordingly, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the interactional role of organizational learning and informal norms in accountability and job performance of the staff in a medical department. methods...