Description / Table of Contents:
Intro -- Series Editor's Foreword -- Contents -- 1 Contextualizing (Safety) Rules -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Rules in Context (1): The Advent of (Safety) Rules as an Established Narrative -- 1.3 Rules in Context (2): There Is More Than Rules in Safety -- 1.4 Rules in Context (3): Historical Trends … a Bureaucratization of Safety? -- 1.5 A Complex Empirical Question, a Sensitive One -- 1.6 Finding or Losing the Balance -- 1.7 The Situations, Roles, and Influence of Middle-Managers and Top Management -- 1.8 When Autonomy, Initiative, and Resilience Take the Lead -- References -- 2 Uncertainty Regulation in High-Risk Organizations: Harnessing the Benefits of Flexible Rules -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Definitions of Uncertainty -- 2.3 Uncertainty Regulation in Organizations -- 2.4 Flexible Rules -- 2.4.1 Basic Problems with Rules: Uncertainty and Autonomy -- 2.4.2 Rules as Part of Uncertainty Regulation -- 2.4.3 Rules as Constraints and Enablers for Behavior -- 2.5 Steps Toward Adopting a New Approach to Uncertainty -- References -- 3 Producing Compliance: The Work of Interpreting, Adapting, and Narrating -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Studying the Work of Compliance Officers -- 3.3 Producing Compliance Pragmatically -- 3.3.1 Interpreting Regulation -- 3.3.2 Adapting Regulation -- 3.3.3 Narrating Regulation -- 3.4 The Challenges of and to Pragmatic Compliance -- 3.5 Conclusion -- References -- 4 Untangling Safety Management: From Reasonable Regulation to Bullshit Tasks -- 4.1 Background and Examples -- 4.2 The Sociotechnical System Entangling Safety Management -- 4.2.1 Government, Regulations, and Associations -- 4.2.2 Management and Company -- 4.2.3 Work and Staff -- 4.3 Managing Through Human-Peripheral Systems -- 4.4 Stepping Out of Inertia -- References -- 5 Ambiguity, Uncoupling, and Autonomy: The Criminology of Organizational Middle-Management.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (91 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9783031450556
Series Statement:
SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology Series
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=31164334
Language:
English
Note:
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