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Journal articles on the topic "Organisational reliability theory"
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Nachbagauer, Andreas G. M., and Iris Schirl-Boeck. "Managing the unexpected in megaprojects: riding the waves of resilience." International Journal of Managing Projects in Business 12, no. 3 (September 2, 2019): 694–715. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijmpb-08-2018-0169.
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Purpose Risk management and uncertainty in megaprojects is a flourishing topic in project management, while the unexpected is still a neglected matter. The purpose of this paper is to offer conceptual clarifications of the unexpected based on second-order-cybernetics and systems theory. While transferring findings from organisation theory to project management, the article provides fresh insights into managing the unexpected in megaprojects. Design/methodology/approach Being grounded on constructionism and systems theory, the conceptual paper explores selected research approaches from organisation theory: research on high-reliability organising, organisational resilience and organisational improvising, on contributions to managing the unexpected in megaprojects. Using the framework of meaning i.e. the factual, social and temporal dimensions, challenges of handling the unexpected are analysed and (effects of) decision-making structures for such projects are defined. Findings This paper argues that classic project management, while neglecting the fundamental distinction between risk, uncertainty and the unexpected, sticks to a planning-and-controlling approach. But the unexpected cannot be planned; however, organisations and managers can prepare for the unexpected. This requests a balance between structure and self-organisation in planning, communication, hierarchy and organisational culture. Understanding the contradictions inherent in managing megaprojects allows for smart decision-making when riding the waves of resilience. Originality/value The study adds to the literature on complexity and uncertainty in project management by enhancing the view to include the unexpected. While rejecting the universal applicability of rationality-based risk and controlling conceptions, shifting to second-order cybernetics and integrating elements of resilient organising increases the understanding of handling the unexpected in megaprojects.
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Fontannaz, S., and H. Oosthuizen. "The development of a conceptual framework to guide sustainable organisational performance." South African Journal of Business Management 38, no. 4 (December 31, 2007): 9–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/sajbm.v38i4.590.
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The emergence of the networked economy implies that traditional management approaches no longer suffice in addressing the challenge of complexity. This is compounded by the existence of divergent approaches to determining organisational performance in both management practice and academia, resulting in an execution gap occurring between strategy formulation and results.This article contributes to an understanding of organisational performance by integrating the divergent approaches to determining organisational performance into the Performance ‘ESP’ framework. This provides a conceptual framework to guide organisational development. The research to validate the framework includes a grounded theory approach, comprising a meta-analytical study of existing research, in-depth qualitative interviews and the pilot testing of the Performance ESP Index, which provides a composite measure of the multi-faceted stakeholder view of organisational performance.The research concludes that organisational performance resides in an organisation’s ability to integrate the divergent approaches, to create an execution culture with the necessary dynamic capabilities for sustainable organisational performance in addressing the challenge of complexity. There needs to be diversity in executive abilities at board level to ensure the integration of strategy and people to create the execution culture. Furthermore, leadership should focus on the strategic fusion of strategy and people, whilst management should focus on developing the strategic paradigm throughout the organisation to ensure an execution culture.The Performance ESP framework provides a diagnostic tool to assess the existence of an execution culture to address the challenge of complexity. The purpose of the assessment tool is to complement the financial metrics of profitability, to ensure a balance between short term profitability and growth for sustainable organisational performance.Further research is required to confirm the reliability of the Performance ESP index as the initial pilot study, whilst indicative of the potential of the instrument, did not provide conclusive evidence of reliability.
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Dominic, Elizabeth, Vijay Victor, Robert Jeyakumar Nathan, and Swetha Loganathan. "Procedural Justice, Perceived Organisational Support, and Organisational Citizenship Behaviour in Business School." Organizacija 54, no. 3 (August 1, 2021): 193–209. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/orga-2021-0013.
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Abstract Background/Purpose: The effectiveness of a Business School depends on the extra role behaviours or Organ-isational Citizenship Behaviour (OCB) of its committed academics. The social exchange theory postulates that employees tend to display OCB when they know how their organisation would treat them. As B-School academics’ inclination towards OCB is less understood, this study examines the interaction between Procedural Justice (PJ), Perceived Organisational Support (POS) and Organisational Citizenship Behaviour (OCB) among B-School academics. Methods: A survey was carried out to collect data from B-School academics, 378 responses were collected from B-Schools from the state of Kerala, India. Data validity and reliability analyses, and direct and indirect effects of research variables were tested using Partial Least Square (PLS) path modelling. Results: The results indicate PJ positively influences POS as well as dimensions of the OCB for B-School academics. Contrary to previous OCB studies, this study finds that POS do not significantly relate to Courtesy. The findings also show that POS fully mediates PJ’s relationship with Altruism, Conscientiousness and Civic Virtues of B-School academics. Conclusion: This research explains the dynamics of PJ and POS towards OCB in a B-School setting. The academic setting of this study provides more insight into the relationships and provides insights into enhancing the organisational citizenship behaviour of academics in enhancing educational outcomes. Further, it also adds to existing understanding of organisational behaviour theory.
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Cantero, Javier, Natalia Lorena Gonzalez, and Daiana Diaz. "Managing innovation in the Argentinian nuclear sector." Academia Revista Latinoamericana de Administración 30, no. 4 (November 6, 2017): 565–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/arla-12-2016-0343.
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Purpose The design, construction, and operation of a nuclear power plant (NPP) pose technological and R&D challenges for the organisations concerned. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the sources of innovation and the technological developments throughout the construction and commissioning processes for Atucha II NPP. Design/methodology/approach Studying a high-risk organisation that is reliable in practice poses several research questions the authors consider in this work. What kind of R&D processes can take place in a mature industry like the nuclear sector in Argentina? How have technological challenges been overcome since the restart of the completion phase of Atucha II NPP? Primary data were mostly gathered through semi-structured interviews. Grounded theory was the methodological approach adopted. Findings Multiple sources of technological developments arise, an incremental R&D pattern being the most salient. Atucha II NPP seems to be a case of network innovation in a triple helix innovation scheme led by the Argentinian state. In effect, one of the outcomes of the construction of the Atucha II NPP was the development of the Argentinian nuclear sector together with the development of organisational capabilities. In this sense, the third Argentine NPP follows the socio-technical path of the Argentine nuclear industry. Originality/value Too little is known about R&D processes in high reliability organisations (HROs), especially in the nuclear sector of a Latin American country such as Argentina as there seem to be no organisational studies analysing HROs’ impact on innovation, reliability, and economic development.
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Steyn, Renier. "Leadership Styles and Organisational Structure." International Journal of Human Resource Studies 10, no. 3 (July 26, 2020): 98. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/ijhrs.v10i3.17295.
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Background: In the call for papers to the 18th International Studying Leadership Conference, the organisers present an argument that leadership is place-bound, and ask a very specific question: “Why does leadership style vary from place-to-place?” This article presents a response to the assumption implicit in this question and also answers the following question: “Does leadership style differ from place-to-place?” Theoretical underpinning: The link between leadership styles and organisational structure is implicit, given general systems theory (Von Bertalanffy, 1968). Leadership styles are presented in terms of Pearce, Sims Jr, Cox, Ball, Schnell, Smith and Treviño’s (2003) typology of leadership styles and organisational structure typology, as specified by Mintzberg’s (1992, 2009). Aim: The aim of this article is to present empirical information on the relationship between leadership styles and the organisational structures within which they manifest. This will provide an answer to the question, “Does leadership style differ from place-to-place?” Ultimately, this may contribute to aligning leaders to organisations. Setting: Data was collected from nine medium-to-large sized organisations operating within an urban environment in South Africa. Method: A cross-sectional survey design was used to collect quantitative data on leadership styles. Data on organisational structure was collected by subject matter experts. Analyses of variance were performed to test hypotheses that leadership styles are equal across organisational structures. Results: The measures of leadership styles showed acceptable levels of reliability and evidence of factorial validity. Statistically significant differences between the leadership styles were detected for transformational, transactional, and directive leadership, but not for empowering leadership. Only for directive leadership were these differences practically significant. These results were linked to organisational structure data. Discussion: Although it is not difficult to create hypotheses linking leadership styles with organisational structure, it was difficult to find these differences in the data and to find cases where these hypotheses held across all the organisations. Practical significant differences occurred for directive leadership only. Conclusion: Before asking, “Why does leadership style vary from place-to-place?” this research asked, “Does leadership style differ from place-to-place?” Given this particular sample, and the manner in which place was defined, place does not seem to dictate the leadership style present in a particular environment.
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Nicholds, Boyd Alexander, and John P. T. Mo. "Reliability analysis of productivity enhancement initiatives." Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management 29, no. 6 (October 15, 2018): 1003–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jmtm-12-2016-0187.
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Purpose Process improvement (PI) projects in manufacturing suffer from high failure rates, often due to management capability overstretch. An organisation’s management may be unaware that they lack the necessary capability to achieve desired performance gains from a particular PI project. As a consequence, PI projects containing a level of complexity are undertaken but the organisation is not capable of providing the required resources. The purpose of this paper is to develop a new method for assessing whether a productivity enhancement initiative which develops into PI projects have a good probability of success (POS). The risk assessment method predicts the POS in achieving desired performance targets from a PI project. Design/methodology/approach The POS of a system can be measured in terms of reliability. An operation with a high POS indicates high reliability of the system’s ability to perform. Reliability is a form of risk assessment. When applied to PI projects, several key factors should be addressed. First, risk should be modelled with a framework that includes human factors. Second, time is an important dimension due to the need for persistence in effort. This research proposes the concept of performance effectiveness function, kP, that links the capability of an organisation with its performance level. A PI reliability function indicating the probably of success of the PI projects can then be derived at the design stage by combining the capability score and actual performance. Findings The PI reliability function has been developed and tested with an industry case in which a PI project is planned. The analysis indicates that the company is far from ideal to do the project. Research limitations/implications The reliability function may be used as a decision support tool to assist decision makers to set realistic performance gain targets from PI projects. The data set for deriving the function came from automotive and metal industries. Further research is required to generalise this methodology to other industries. Practical implications The reliability-based approach fills the gap in PI literature with a more holistic approach to determine the POS. Using the system’s reliability as an indicator, decision makers can analyse the system’s design so that resources can be used to increase key capabilities and hence the overall system’s POS can be increased more effectively. Social implications Many manufacturing organisations are looking to improve their operations by projects that aim to reduce waste in their operations. However, researches show that while achieving desired performance gain from PI is possible, it is by no means certain due to human factors. This research provides a decision support tool that evaluates human factors as well. Originality/value The originality lies in integration of the reliability theory to PI risk assessment and the novel method of characterising organisational capabilities to work towards meeting desired performance targets from manufacturing PI projects. This work has good potential to generalise for estimating the POS of other types of development projects.
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Kamran, Maria, Fatima Farooq, and Muhammad Zia-ur-Rehman. "Corporate Governance and Organisational Performance: An Empirical Analysis." Review of Applied Management and Social Sciences 3, no. 3 (December 31, 2020): 323–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.47067/ramss.v3i3.67.
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The study focuses on organisational performance based on the financial indicators including ROA, ROE, sales and similar elements. The research proposed that corporate governance practices could play a vital role in organisational performance. Therefore various practices of corporate governance were chosen and tested their impact. The study sample comprises of the respondents working in various Telecom Sector that includes: Mobilink, Telenor, Ufone, and Zong across Pakistan. A total of 320 useable responses were used. Data were collected through a questionnaire by sending through mail and online. A pilot testing was conducted to test the reliability ad validity for the instrument, with the pilot sample of 55 respondents. After testing the validity and reliability, further data were collected and tested the hypotheses devised thorough a study based on literature review. Employing correlational and regression tests, we analyzed the data. The results indicate that there was a positive and significant effect of corporate governance practices on organizational performance. Out of five hypotheses, three hypotheses were approved while two got rejected. The detail findings are shown in the analysis chapter. The study concludes with discussion, limitations and future research directions including implications both for theory and practitioners.
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Enya, Andrew, Manikam Pillay, and Shane Dempsey. "A Systematic Review on High Reliability Organisational Theory as a Safety Management Strategy in Construction." Safety 4, no. 1 (February 10, 2018): 6. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/safety4010006.
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Na-Nan, Khahan, and Natthaya Wongsuwan. "Development and validation of perceived workplace support for small and medium-sized enterprise employees." International Journal of Organizational Analysis 28, no. 1 (January 13, 2020): 243–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijoa-12-2018-1608.
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Purpose Perceived workplace support (PWS) is an employee’s perception of perceived organisational support (POS), perceived supervisor support (PSS), perceived co-worker support (PCS) and perceived sufficient resource support (PSRS) to operate effectively. The purpose of this paper is to explore the development and validation of employee’s PWS instrument in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Design/methodology/approach A total of 15 items of employees’ PWS instrument in SMEs were developed from the measurement base of earlier published research, concepts and theory. The instrument was applied to a cross-sectional study and data were collected as factor analyses to confirm and ascertain construct validity. Reliability was tested by measuring the internal consistency. Findings The instrument showed excellent reliability at 0.894. Four factors as “POS”, “PSS”, “PCS” and “PSRS” were extracted and confirmed from the confirmatory factor analysis. Originality/value PWS studies are often used by researchers, human resource departments and organisations to investigate the level of employee support. The instrument developed from this study will enable researchers, human resource departments and organisations to explore levels of POS, PSS, PCS and PSRS.
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Kengatharan, Navaneethakrishnan. "A knowledge-based theory of the firm." International Journal of Manpower 40, no. 6 (September 2, 2019): 1056–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijm-03-2018-0096.
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Purpose Drawing on the knowledge-based theory of the firm, the purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between each facet of intellectual capital, productivity and firms’ performance and further investigate, heretofore neglected, a mediating effect of productivity in the relationship between each facet of intellectual capital and firms’ performance. Design/methodology/approach Data were garnered with a self-reported questionnaire from 232 firm managers working in various industries: banking, insurance, telecommunications and hotels. Reliability and validity of the instruments were confirmed using confirmatory factor analysis. Prior to hypothesis testing using structural equation modelling, as a caveat, tests for nonresponse bias and common method variance were employed. Findings The paper confirmed that intellectual capital is the pièce de résistance and established a strong connection with productivity. The results further disclosed a positive relationship between productivity and firms’ performance. A mediated relationship between individual facets of intellectual capital and firms’ performance through productivity was also affirmed. Practical implications Chiefly, the paper underscored the importance of intellectual capital in promoting productivity and firms’ performance. It behoves human resource managers and practitioners to make the organisational arrangements to reinforce intellectual capital thereby boosting the productivity that brings organisations’ success. Originality/value Previous studies in the sphere of intellectual capital have unequivocally discounted in establishing relationships between intellectual capital, productivity and firms’ performance. The results of the paper are novel findings, unequivocally contributing to the frontiers of the knowledge-based theory of the firm and conjointly, the paper has made methodological and geographical contributions.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Organisational reliability theory"
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Agnew, Richard Quentin, and n/a. "The Australian Customs Service : towards organisational 'turnaround'." University of Canberra. Administrative Studies, 1999. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20060529.172334.
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For the past decade the Australian Customs Service (ACS) has been regarded as an
organisation in decline. Customs' history has been sporadically influenced by
numerous reports that identify many instances of 'maladministration'. More recently,
instances, such as the 'Midford Paramount Affair', have brought media and public
notoriety to Customs followed by the establishment of the Review of the ACS in May
1993 (The Conroy Report). This, the latest and most comprehensive report
undertaken on the ACS, documented administrative malfunctions of a major kind.
Each report, using its own rationale has recommended more advanced levels of
information technology (IT) application.
To study these protracted administrative issues, the author has used, as the basis of
analysis, a dynamic contingent decision-paths schema as well as furthering the
theoretical constructs of organisational 'reliability' theory. The dynamic contingent
decision-paths schema is designed to provide a conceptual framework regarding
public (and private) sector situations of agency decline, evaluation, strategic response
and finally 'turnaround' policy and implementation. The ACS is now implementing a
comprehensive turnaround strategy, which includes new and novel information
technologies.
Organisational 'reliability' theory relates to organisations that are required to be
highly reliable in their daily work-related activities otherwise crises of some major
magnitude may occur. These organisations need to practice near perfect
organisational and decision-making performance, and tend to be highly technical,
relying increasingly in turn on information technology in managing their respective
systems or operations. Customs was an early innovator in using Electronic Data
Interchange and is now pursuing e-commerce, which in part is being outsourced, to
EDS, a multinational company.
The study initially reviews the recent history of the ACS - 'mapping' the nature of the
organisation's decline, raising relevant factors which the author argues may be seen
as successive 'crisis points', and lastly, addresses the strategic 'turnaround' policies of
the organisation.
The author believes the nadir for Customs has been reached and there are now
positive signs that the ACS has commenced its organisational 'turnaround'.
Organisational design matters including structural and cultural issues have been
addressed which has allowed Customs to forge new relationships with its clients, as
well as fostering 'new' management philosophies. These new philosophies and
relationships, together with participation with an industry lead advisory team and a
new internal management team, have provided the catalyst for change and recovery.
Political and industry pressure and their formal involvement in a recovery strategy
provide a high level of confidence for Customs' future and the strategic and
operational changes being implemented.
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Richter, Andreas. "Cyberepidemiologi : Hur kan utbrottsdetektion inom folkhälsa hjälpa IT-incidentsövervakning?" Thesis, Försvarshögskolan, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-8375.
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This study aims to shed light on what a comparison between cybersecurity intelligence and public health surveillance systems can yield in practical improvements. The issue at hand is best described by the amount of threats both systems must detect. Intelligent malicious software, malware, designed by humans to spread and reap havoc in the abundance of unprotected networks worldwide and contagious diseases with millions of years of evolution behind their design to bypass human defences, infect and multiply. These two threats stand as mighty competitors to actors who try to monitor their presence to be able to give advice on further action to hinder their spread. The sheer amount of experience in public health of dealing with surveillance of contagious disease can contribute with important lessons to cyber intelligence when malware is becoming an even more alarming threat against everybody who uses the Internet. To compare them both this study uses high reliability theory to understand how Folkhälsomyndigheten, Sweden’s main authority in public health surveillance, and CERT-SE, Sweden’s national computer emergency response team, operate to make their surveillance as reliable as possible to detect emerging threats. Some key findings of the study points to the lack of regional or global binding policy’s to share information in the cyber security sector of which CERT-SE takes part in. The major roll of trust-based information sharing can be subject to shifts in relationships between states and excludes states with which no bilateral arrangements are made, but who may possess information of urgent necessity. The lack of arrangements in the cybersecurity sector, correspondent to the International health regulations by World Health Organization in public health, stands as a major difference between the two sectors access to information. However, this study may not stretch as far as to prove that the greater access to information would have proved to be of ease in a specific cyberincident. Case studies of this kind or further research of how agreements can be made in an anarchistic domain like the Internet are to be continued from this study.
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Hellou, Gisèle. "Les théories de la complexité et la systémique en gouvernance clinique: le cas des soins intensifs chirurgicaux." Thèse, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/2831.
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Deux thématiques importantes des technologies de la santé: la pratique médicale fondée sur des preuves probantes et l’évaluation des interventions en médecine sont fondées sur une approche positiviste et une conception mécaniste des organisations en santé.
Dans ce mémoire, nous soulevons l’hypothèse selon laquelle les théories de la complexité et la systémique permettent une conceptualisation différente de ces deux aspects de la gouvernance clinique d’une unité de Soins Intensifs Chirurgicaux (SIC), qui est considérée comme un système adaptatif dynamique non linéaire qui nécessite une approche systémique de la cognition.
L’étude de cas d’une unité de SIC, permet de démontrer par de nombreux exemples et des analyses de micro-situations, toutes les caractéristiques de la complexité des patients critiques et instables et de la structure organisationnelle des SIC.
Après une critique épistémologique de l’Evidence-Based Medicine nous proposons une pratique fondée sur des raisonnements cliniques alliant l’abduction, l’herméneutique et la systémique aux SIC.
En nous inspirant des travaux de Karl Weick, nous suggérons aussi de repenser l’évaluation des modes d’interventions cliniques en s’inspirant de la notion d’organisation de haute fiabilité pour mettre en place les conditions nécessaires à l’amélioration des pratiques aux SIC.In Health Technology Assessment and Management, Evidence-Based Medicine and many tools available for clinical assessment reflect a positivistic and mechanistic approach to Health Care Organizations and scientific knowledge. We argue that the Complexity Theories and the Systemic decision-making process give a different insight on those two aspects of Clinical Governance in a Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU). In a case-study, we describe the nature of critically ill and unstable patients and the organizational structure of a SICU in a university based hospital. We demonstrate all the characteristics of complexity in that setting, through the use of many examples and micro-situational analysis. After an epistemological critical appraisal of EBM, we suggest that if a SICU is conceptualized as a dynamic non-linear adaptative system, then clinical knowledge and scientific thought processes must include hermeneutical, systemic and abductive types of reasoning. Finally, we draw upon Karl Weick’s work and suggest that a SICU must be considered as a High Reliability Organization in order to aim for improving patient care and create better conditions for quality and performance in this complex environment.
Books on the topic "Organisational reliability theory"
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Parker, Ciaran. High reliability theory: The study of two organisational units operating hazardous technologies. Dublin: University College Dublin, 1996.
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Bieder, Corinne. The Coupling of Safety and Security: Exploring Interrelations in Theory and Practice. Springer Nature, 2020.
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Holmen, I., I. Utne, and S. Haugen. "Organisational safety indicators in aquaculture—a preliminary study." In Risk, Reliability and Safety: Innovating Theory and Practice, 1809–16. Taylor & Francis Group, 6000 Broken Sound Parkway NW, Suite 300, Boca Raton, FL 33487-2742: CRC Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/9781315374987-274.
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Senge, Konstanze, and Simon Dombrowski. "Das Management von Unsicherheit in Organisationen: Können Organisationen im Umgang mit Unsicherheit von den Erkenntnissen der High Reliability Theory lernen?" In Organisation und Unsicherheit, 87–102. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-19237-6_6.
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Cooke, M., and E. Murphy. "Moving through crisis and resilience: An activity-centred CONOPS of CI organisations." In Risk, Reliability and Safety: Innovating Theory and Practice, 510–17. Taylor & Francis Group, 6000 Broken Sound Parkway NW, Suite 300, Boca Raton, FL 33487-2742: CRC Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/9781315374987-78.
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Bain, A. "Whose risk: Tools for strategic risk management in complex organisations and systems—identifying a wood by summing the trees." In Risk, Reliability and Safety: Innovating Theory and Practice, 1195–200. Taylor & Francis Group, 6000 Broken Sound Parkway NW, Suite 300, Boca Raton, FL 33487-2742: CRC Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/9781315374987-180.
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Moura, R., M. Beer, E. Patelli, J. Lewis, and F. Knoll. "Learning from accidents: Investigating the genesis of human errors in multi-attribute settings to improve the organisation of design." In Risk, Reliability and Safety: Innovating Theory and Practice, 228–36. Taylor & Francis Group, 6000 Broken Sound Parkway NW, Suite 300, Boca Raton, FL 33487-2742: CRC Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/9781315374987-37.
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"Organisational factors, safety culture and socio-technical modelling." In Risk, Reliability and Safety: Innovating Theory and Practice, 1831–948. CRC Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/9781315374987-22.
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"Organisational factors, safety culture and socio-technical modelling." In Risk, Reliability and Safety: Innovating Theory and Practice, 1797. Taylor & Francis Group, 6000 Broken Sound Parkway NW, Suite 300, Boca Raton, FL 33487-2742: CRC Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/9781315374987-271.
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Chiu, Iris H.-Y., and Joanna Wilson. "12. Regulating the governance, structures, and incentives at banks." In Banking Law and Regulation, 541–602. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/he/9780198784722.003.0012.
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This chapter assesses how regulation addresses sub-optimal internal organisation and governance at banks in order to change behaviour. The Basel Committee defines the role of internal control at banks to be for three purposes: to assist in achieving profitability and performance, to ensure the reliability and integrity of financial information relating to the bank, and to assist in external compliance with regulations. Meanwhile, corporate governance may be defined as ‘a system by which companies are directed or controlled’. As a framework for determining exercise of power, decision-making, and accountability, corporate governance is important in the shaping of an overall organisational culture. The chapter also considers the regulation of bankersʼ remuneration. Although such regulation affects bankers individually, there are aspects of ‘collective’ policy in remuneration regulation that seek to control organisational freedom in giving rewards, as well as aspects that affect individual incentives.
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Kapoor, Avinash, and Chinmaya Kulshrestha. "Strong Value Proposition through Social Media Tools." In Dynamics of Competitive Advantage and Consumer Perception in Social Marketing, 223–52. IGI Global, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4430-4.ch009.
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This chapter looks into social media tools being leveraged by marketing groups of various organisations. More specifically, this chapter attempts to identify the usefulness, sustainability, and reliability of social media tools in the context of the brand image of American Express. In the last two years, American Express has launched numerous touch points on various social media platforms, which include Facebook, LinkedIn, and FourSquare. The chapter concludes that social media tools do impact the brand building exercise of an organisation to offer strong value proposition, and therefore, American Express should also invest such effort to stay a leader in the payment industry. However, in order to target younger customers there is a need for revamping and rejuvenation the value proposition so as to remain young, meaningful, and contemporary.
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Deshpande, Yogesh, and Bhuvan Unhelkar. "Information Systems for a Green Organisation." In Handbook of Research on Green ICT, 116–30. IGI Global, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61692-834-6.ch008.
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Green ICT is the study and practice of using computing resources efficiently and effectively with minimal or no impact on the environment. It is a new and rapidly evolving discipline with new terminologies, experimental results, regulatory restrictions and policy recommendations from scientists, ICT organizations and governments. Organizations need to monitor their practices and ICT usage carefully in order to formulate effective policies, control processes and manage content based on sound architectures. Green ICT contains a high level of complexity because of uncertainty of processes, data quality and reliability. It is also beset by dissent and debate that engulfs wider disciplines such as technology itself, sociology, ethics and law – all of which reflects into the amalgamation of wide ranging data. The success or failure of Green ICT policies is determined by the way an organisation manages the participation and social interactions of its employees and customers. A green organization works on enhancing the data and information management within the organization that revolves around information systems, their databases and their applications. This chapter takes cognizance of the overall complexity of the field and aims to bring to the fore formal, research-based approaches to the use of data and information in the domain of Green ICT to enable organizations to change in a systematic, controlled and measured manner through information portals based on ontologies. The ontological considerations include user perspectives on green ICT, actual use of information in greening an organization, and dispersal of knowledge not only within the organization but also across the industry.
Conference papers on the topic "Organisational reliability theory"
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Thorogood, John Laurence. "Is there a place for the High Reliability Organisation in Drilling?" In IADC/SPE Drilling Conference and Exhibition. Society of Petroleum Engineers, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/151338-ms.
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Aliende Urrutia, Usue, Philip Webb, and Mark Summers. "Analysis of Design for X Methodologies for Complex Assembly Processes: A Literature Review." In ASME 2014 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2014-34955.
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Historically, products have been developed following the “we design it, you build it” approach. Design and production belonged to two independent entities, with no feedback from downstream activities to upstream activities. In order to avoid redesign costs caused by the lack of feedback, pioneer organisations began to apply methodologies such as ‘Design for Assembly’ or ‘Design for Manufacture’ on a daily basis. Over the years, further research has been carried out to refine these generic methodologies adding previously unconsidered perspectives, such as quality, reliability, environmental, etc. which evolved into a concept called ‘Design-for-X’ (DfX). However, existing methodologies have largely focused on simply reducing product’s structural costs, without taking into consideration other important aspects of more complex assembly processes common in the aerospace industry. The complex assembly process that this paper focuses on is the systems’ installation process within the aerospace business. The installation of fuel, electrical and other systems must follow strict aerospace regulations, intra-organisational design rules, safety policies and many more restrictions, which are not considered as key factors in current methodologies. In this paper, we endeavour to provide an extensive analysis of existing DfX methodologies and support our conclusion that there is an opportunity to develop a new methodology which will ease the aerospace systems’ installation process for the shop-floor operator.
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Nezamian, Abe, Robert J. Nicolson, and Dorel Iosif. "State of Art in Life Extension of Existing Offshore Structures." In ASME 2012 31st International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/omae2012-83302.
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A large number of the old oil and gas facilities have reached or exceeded their initial design life. With a continued requirement to produce oil or gas, either from the original fields or as a base for neighbouring subsea completions, many of these respective offshore installations are likely to remain operational for a period of time in the foreseeable future. The ageing offshore infrastructure presents a constant and growing challenge. Ageing is characterised by deterioration, change in operational conditions or accidental damages which, in the severe operational environment offshore, can be significant with serious consequences for installation integrity if not managed adequately and efficiently. In order to ensure technical and operational integrity of these ageing facilities, the fitness for service of these offshore structures should be maintained. The maintenance of structural integrity is a significant consideration in the safety management and life extension of offshore installations. Detailed integrity assessments are needed to demonstrate that there is sufficient technical, operational and organisational integrity to continue safe operation throughout a life extension. Information on history, characteristic data, condition data and inspection results are required to assess the current state and to predict the future state of the facility and the possible life extension. This paper presents state of art practices in life extension of existing offshore structures and an overview of various aspects of ageing related to offshore facilities, represented risk to the integrity of a facility and the required procedures and re assessment criteria for deciding on life extension. This paper also provides an overall view in the structural requirements, justifications and calibrations of the original design for the life extension to maintain the safety level by means of a maintenance and inspection programs balancing the ageing mechanisms and improving the reliability of assessment results.
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Kaye, Alwyn. "Undertaking Bolted Joint Integrity Management: Getting to Zero Leaks Quickly and Effectively." In ASME 2016 Pressure Vessels and Piping Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/pvp2016-63873.
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Leaks can and are being eliminated in a wide array of industries. There is a sweeping change across all the oil and gas, chemical and petrochemical and many related industries and businesses that use pressure equipment. This reflects social change and ever increasing demands for safe and reliable pressure equipment performance. No longer are leaks considered acceptable or the normal course of business. Codes, standards and specifications globally are changing and improving to reflect the need for improved performance. The implementation by individuals and organisations to follow this important drive to zero leaks has been hindered by fragmented guidance and misunderstanding of the plethora of options presented in the marketplace. In industries that need to demonstrate performance, reliability and compliance, the need to create the structure and platform to make this successful has never been more pressing than it is now. Transformation of plant and equipment from normalized deviance and tolerance of leaks and failures to improved reliability is not only possible but essential in a world of resolve to cost containment and environmental protection. This paper demonstrates the viability and importance of this change in philosophy followed by action. Examples are provided of the methodology of review and analysis through calculation followed by application. These must come together with basic plant operation in a comprehensive program of changed values and beliefs in order to be successful in the outcome. How to put it all together, is discussed and described. The paper authenticates the issues and describes the approaches needed by using case studies to demonstrate the principles and techniques needed to achieve success in implementation. It is understood that some minor modifications based on end user situations and needs may require adaptation or adjustment of some details. However the principles outlined are in keeping with and closely follow the intent and adherence to the European Standards EN-1591 and ASME Post-Construction Committee ASME PCC-1 “Guidelines for Pressure Boundary Bolted Joint Assembly”. [1,2]
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Reis Santos, Mariana. "Does the implementation of special zones of social interest (ZEIS) encourages adequate housing in precarious settlement? The case of San Paolo." In 55th ISOCARP World Planning Congress, Beyond Metropolis, Jakarta-Bogor, Indonesia. ISOCARP, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.47472/hfqf7018.
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With the establishment of the Constitution of 1988, a new approach to urban governance emerged in Brazil. The document brought significant changes regarding the right to the city and adequate housing, in particular, for the urban poor. The recognition of these rights triggered the experimentation with inclusionary policies around the country (Rolnik and Santoro, 2013). As a result, informal settlements started to be acknowledged as part of the formal city and were included in zoning and planning laws. One of the main outcomes of these experiments was the creation of Special Zones of Social Interest (ZEIS), a land and housing policy that linked investments on infrastructure in precarious settlements to land regularisation processes. In 2001, ZEIS was incorporated into the City Statute, a document that established a range of collective rights to guide land use and development. Since then, the instrument has gained popularity in the country as a land regularisation tool. Nevertheless, a considerable share of settlements remains poorly built and addressing informality is still a challenge. Therefore, this paper evaluated the co-relation between the implementation of ZEIS, land regularisation processes and provision of basic infrastructure in precarious settlements. More specifically, it measured the quality of State interventions supported by the zoning. By focusing on quality, this article aimed to evaluate whether ZEIS has encouraged adequate housing conditions for the urban poor or reinforced precarious patterns of development. To explore this relationship, a case study was conducted on the performance of ZEIS in Favela of Sapé, a settlement in the West of São Paulo. As a methodology, case studies have become a common option for performing evaluations and analyse what a program, practice or police has achieved (Yin, 2012). Moreover, this research strategy commonly relies on various sources of field-based information (Yin, 2012). Accordingly, this paper comprised mainly primary qualitative data. It also made broad use of content and secondary analysis, with the goal of ensuring validity and reliability. The performance of ZEIS in Sapé demonstrated that since its implementation, in 2001, tenure security and physical characteristics have enhanced considerably in the area, particularly, when it comes to housing quality and provision of basic infrastructure. Nevertheless, these accomplishments are being compromised by a strong process of reoccupation which is supported by illegal organisations. In addition, there is a delay of the Municipality in meeting the demands for housing in the area because of governance issues and mismanagement of financial resources. This scenario, combined with a weak inspection body, has once again permitted the development of precarious housing and infrastructure in the area. It also has compromised the issuance of freehold land titles to the settlement’s dwellers. In other words, the site is under a vicious circle where neither the provision of housing and infrastructure is enough to meet the demand nor the land regularisation is completed because of the reoccupations. In sum, although the implementation of ZEIS seems to have a share of responsibility in Sapé’s upgrading process, the local authorities do not have the capacity of reinforcement necessary to maintain these improvements. Furthermore, it is fair to assume that the current legal framework provided by ZEIS is not adequate for the context of São Paulo and requires further adjustments. Not only because of the complex character of the city, but also because in practice, urban norms may be interpreted differently according to political and cultural conditions (Rolnik, 1997).