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Book/Printed Material Fallibility at Work : Rethinking Excellence and Error in Organizations

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Title

  • Fallibility at Work : Rethinking Excellence and Error in Organizations

Summary

  • This book is published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. 'This is an exciting, groundbreaking book. With an astonishing array of examples and a brilliant eye for the essential, yvind Kvalnes takes the Socratic motto of knowing yourself to our everyday lives in the workplace. Applied philosophy at its best, the book will affect the way you do your work and live your life.' -Professor Esa Saarinen, Aalto University This book addresses how organizations can deal with human fallibility in order to create space for excellence at work. Some mistakes in work settings put lives at risk, while others create openings for innovative breakthroughs. In order to deal constructively with fallibility, an organization needs a communication climate where it is normal to voice opinions, admit mistakes, and ask for help in critical situations. The book builds on interviews with practitioners in healthcare, aviation, IT, public governance, and industry. It connects narratives from these fields with theories from organizational psychology and philosophy, as well as from positive organizational scholarship. In the final chapter, an overall ethics of fallibility at work is outlined. Fallibility at Work contributes to research in multiple academic disciplines, but also reaches out to practitioners who are interested in the connections between error and excellence in organizations.

Names

  • Kvalnes, yvind. author.

Created / Published

  • Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.

Contents

  • 1. Risky Play -- 2. Falling Fast -- 3. Moral Risk in a Nursing Home -- 4. Coping with Fallibility in Aviation -- 5. Fallibility and Trust in Healthcare -- 6. Approaches to Help in Organizations -- 7. Ethics of Fallibility.

Headings

  • -  Business ethics
  • -  Knowledge management
  • -  Organization
  • -  Planning
  • -  Knowledge Management
  • -  Business Ethics

Notes

  • -  Description based on publisher-supplied MARC data.
  • -  Business and Management (R0) (SpringerNature-43719)
  • -  Business and Management (SpringerNature-41169)

Medium

  • 1 online resource (XX, 159 pages)

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2019746572

Rights Advisory

Access Advisory

  • Unrestricted online access

Online Format

  • image
  • epub

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Chicago citation style:

Kvalnes, Yvind. Author. Fallibility at Work: Rethinking Excellence and Error in Organizations. Cham: Springer International Publishing: Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Image. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2019746572/.

APA citation style:

Kvalnes, Y. A. (2017) Fallibility at Work: Rethinking Excellence and Error in Organizations. Cham: Springer International Publishing: Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan. [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2019746572/.

MLA citation style:

Kvalnes, Yvind. Author. Fallibility at Work: Rethinking Excellence and Error in Organizations. Cham: Springer International Publishing: Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2019746572/>.