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The notion of responsibility evokes the meaning associated with the event or the expectation of having to respond or to give account for something, justifying one s actions or omissions. Experiencing responsibility, one feels a compulsion to do or not to do something, which influences actions, attitudes and performances. Responsibility plays an increasingly important role in our daily life at work. That role is particularly evident in project management, as its surveillance-based management techniques, such as project planning and control tools, functionalise responsibility through disciplinary processes, as an attempt to control what happens in a project. The assumption underpinning those techniques is that holding people to account for the completion of their tasks (the passive form of responsibility), will influence those people into taking active responsibility for how they are expected to perform. Drawing on real experiences of participating in management change projects, this book demonstrates how more complex work dynamics emerge, associated with the diverse emotional responses to the experience of responsibility, such as shame, guilt or pride."