G Grote - Resilience Engineering Perspectives, Volume 1, 2016 - taylorfrancis.com
Introduction High-risk organizations are faced with the problem of having to achieve a delicate balance between centralization and decentralization, that is between minimizing …
V Hagemann, A Kluge, S Ritzmann - Employee Relations, 2012 - emerald.com
Purpose–The purpose of the present study is to introduce the elements characterising the work context of high responsibility teams (HRTs) operating in high reliability contexts such …
The management of uncertainties is discussed as a key challenge for organizations and two approaches to handling uncertainties are introduced, ie minimizing uncertainties versus …
In government and business, there is a growing trend towards using standardized tools and guidelines under the assumption that formal approaches will make risk management …
Recent research in the field of safety science on the limitedness of rules as a measure to achieve safety has coincided with new research in organization science on rules and …
Organizational routines embody the stability-change duality: for routines to be consistent, actors performing them must improvise to adjust to changing conditions. While these …
Once regarded as stable and inflexible, organizational routines are increasingly seen as capable of being adapted to the situation at hand and a potentially important source of …
The paper reviews the literature from 1986 on the management of those safety rules and procedures which relate to the workplace level in organisations. It contrasts two different …
Recent developments in risk assessment acknowledge the need to capture both quantitative and qualitative uncertainties in order to better understand and manage risks. This paper …