Just Culture: Balancing Safety and Accountability - Brossura

Dekker, Sidney

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ISBN 10: 0754672670 ISBN 13: 9780754672678

Casa editrice: Ashgate Pub Co, 2007

Riassunto

Building on the success of the 2007 original, Dekker revises, enhances and expands his view of just culture for this second edition, additionally tackling the key issue of how justice is created inside organizations. The goal remains the same: to create an environment where learning and accountability are fairly and constructively balanced. The First Edition of Sidney Dekkerâ s Just Culture brought accident accountability and criminalization to a broader audience. It made people question, perhaps for the first time, the nature of personal culpability when organizational accidents occur. Having raised this awareness the author then discovered that while many organizations saw the fairness and value of creating a just culture they really struggled when it came to developing it: What should they do? How should they and their managers respond to incidents, errors, failures that happen on their watch? In this Second Edition, Dekker expands his view of just culture, additionally tackling the key issue of how justice is created inside organizations. The new book is structured quite differently. Chapter One asks, â what is the right thing to do?â - the basic moral question underpinning the issue. Ensuing chapters demonstrate how determining the â right thingâ really depends on oneâ s viewpoint, and that there is not one â true storyâ but several. This naturally leads into the key issue of how justice is established inside organizations and the practical efforts needed to sustain it. The following chapters place just culture and criminalization in a societal context. Finally, the author reflects upon why we tend to blame individual people for systemic failures when in fact we bear collective responsibility. The changes to the text allow the author to explain the core elements of a just culture which he delineated so successfully in the First Edition and to explain how his original ideas have evolved. Dekker also introduces new material on ethics and on caring for theâ second victimâ (the professional at the centre of the incident). Consequently, we have a natural evolution of the authorâ s ideas. Those familiar with the earlier book and those for whom a just culture is still an aspiration will find much wisdom and practical advice here.

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Recensione

'...this book could and should be read by the policy formers and decision makers of all medium and large enterprises. In doing so they will gain a great deal of insight into an area that has perhaps been neglected for too long. I cannot recommend this work highly enough.' ----- Health and Safety at Work August 2009

L'autore

Sidney Dekker (Ph.D. The Ohio State University, 1996) is Professor of Human Factors and System Safety and Director of Research at Lund University School of Aviation in Sweden. Author of Ten Questions About Human Error (Erlbaum, 2005) and the top-selling Field Guide to Understanding Human Error (Ashgate, 2006), he has been appointed as Scientific Advisor on Healthcare System Safety to the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority in Canada, and is visiting professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Ashgate Pub Co
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0754672670
• ISBN 13: 9780754672678
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 153
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile