Compliance and Initiative in the Production of Safety A Systems Perspective on Managing Tensions and Building Complementarity

This open access book addresses the idea that there are two ways to go about achieving a safe working environment. The text challenges the prevailing notion that compliance with a rule system, imposed from the top of an organization and designed to anticipate possible hazards in system operation, is...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Le Coze, Jean-Christophe (-)
Other Authors: Journé, Benoît
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland 2024.
Edition:1st ed. 2024.
Series:SpringerBriefs in Safety Management,
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009805102306719
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Contextualising (safety) rules
  • 2. Uncertainty regulation in high-risk organizations: Harnessing the benefit of flexible rules
  • 3. Producing Compliance: The Work of Interpreting, Adapting, and Narrating
  • 4. Untangling safety management. From reasonable regulation to bullshit tasks
  • 5. Uncoupling, ambiguity, and autonomy – the criminology of organisational middle-management
  • 6. The Effects of Top Managers’ Organizational Reliability Orientation
  • 7. Interlocking Surprises: Their Nature, Implications and Potential Responses
  • 8. Resolving the Command-Adapt Paradox: Guided Adaptability to Cope with Complexity.