Just Culture

Restoring Trust and Accountability in Your Organization, Third Edition

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Sidney Dekker: Just Culture (2018, Taylor & Francis Group)

168 pages

English language

Published Jan. 25, 2018 by Taylor & Francis Group.

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978-1-317-10989-1
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A just culture protects people's honest mistakes from being seen as culpable. But what is an honest mistake, or rather, when is a mistake no longer honest?

It is too simple to assert that there should be consequences for those who 'cross the line'. Lines don't just exist out there, ready to be crossed or obeyed. We-people-construct those lines; and we draw them differently all the time, depending on the language we use to describe the mistake, on hindsight, history, tradition, and a host of other factors.

What matters is not where the line goes-but who gets to draw it. If we leave that to chance, or to prosecutors, or fail to tell operators honestly about who may end up drawing the line, then a just culture may be very difficult to achieve.

The absence of a just culture in an organization, in a country, in an industry, hurts both …

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