Progressive Organizational Cultures and Their Effects on Role Tensions and Felt Accountability 
This article investigates the relationships between role tensions, felt accountability and organizational cultures. The study was carried out in France with 167 managers. The results show the mediating role of felt accountability between role ambiguity and role conflict. Progressive (aka “liberated”) cultures increase the effects of role ambiguity on felt accountability, while bureaucratic cultures increase the effects of felt accountability on role conflict and contradictory or incompatible demands. These results are refined and discussed according to the dimensions of felt accountability.