Which attitude leaves action to others for better or worse outcomes?

Which attitude leaves action to others for better or worse outcomes?

• A. Impulsivity
• B. Anti-authority
• C. Resignation
• D. Invulnerability

Answer: (C)

Resignation is the attitude of giving up personal responsibility and leaving outcomes in someone else’s hands. When you adopt resignation, you stop taking action to influence the result, assuming things will unfold as they will, regardless of your input. That means decisions, problem investigations, and process improvements get postponed or left to others, so outcomes reflect others’ choices rather than what you could have done. In quality assurance, this leads to missed defects, unaddressed risks, and a stagnation of improvement because issues aren’t actively owned or escalated. By contrast, impulsivity, anti-authority, and invulnerability describe different patterns of behavior that don’t center on simply handing off outcomes to others.

Resignation is the attitude of giving up personal responsibility and leaving outcomes in someone else’s hands. When you adopt resignation, you stop taking action to influence the result, assuming things will unfold as they will, regardless of your input. That means decisions, problem investigations, and process improvements get postponed or left to others, so outcomes reflect others’ choices rather than what you could have done. In quality assurance, this leads to missed defects, unaddressed risks, and a stagnation of improvement because issues aren’t actively owned or escalated. By contrast, impulsivity, anti-authority, and invulnerability describe different patterns of behavior that don’t center on simply handing off outcomes to others.