Dictionary definition(s) for: administrative accountability

• n., The sort of accountability aimed at non-political and non-legal authorities such as civil servants and top ranking administrators. Involves developing and implementing procedures for carrying out actions and documenting them to ensure that everything is done according to rule and in proper sequence, so that administrators can account at any time precisely for anything that has been done.
• n., The principle that underlies the concept of accountability [ . . . ] is linked to the conveying and evaluation of information. [ . . . ] For ongoing bodies, accountability required the development and refinement of procedures for carrying out actions and documenting them, "to ensure that everything was done according to rule and in proper sequence, so that administrators could account at any time precisely for anything that had been done."
  Parkinson, Jane. "Accountability in Archival Science." Master's thesis, University of British Columbia, 1993.