Deals with issues affecting workplace safety and employee mental health Explores the contrast between professional autonomy and centralized prescription in working practices This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access

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Jean-Christophe Le Coze is a safety researcher (Ph.D., Mines ParisTech) at INERIS, the French national institute for environmental safety. His activities combine ethnographic studies and action research in various safety-critical systems, with an empirical, theoretical, historical, visual and epistemological orientation. He has authored several books and numerous journal articles on safety science and is an associate editor of the journal Safety Science.

Benoît Journé is a professor of management at the University of Nantes, France; the director of the RESOH; and the chair at the IMT Atlantique-LEMNA. His research concerns reliability and resilience of high-hazard industrial systems, and in particular nuclear power, and pragmatist approaches to strategy and management. He is the author of numerous journal articles and an editor of several collective volumes on safety science topics.

Inhalt

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.