Bernhard Wilpert

Conceptual Dimensions and Boundaries of Participation in Organizations: A Critical Evaluation.

This paper outlines a broad conceptual framework for participation in organizations, which provides an overview of four defining dimensions of participatory social arrangements in organizations and their often complex interdependencies. The dimensions of participation discussed in this paper include the social theories underlying participatory social systems and the values and goals each of them implies for participation, the major properties of participatory systems, the outcomes of participation in organizations, and the contextual characteristics of participatory systems which limit or enhance their potential. The view of participation presented in this paper is of a multidimensional, dynamic social phenomenon, the study of which transcends questions unique to any given discipline paradigm and which requires an integration of micro and macro questions. The implications of this conceptualization for theory building, research, and methodology are briefly discussed.

Organizational participation : myth and reality

Introduction 1. An Overview 2. Organizational Participation: A View from Psychology 3. Organization Theory and Participation 4. Collective Bargaining, Unions, and Participation 5. Playing the Devils Advocate: Limits to Influence Sharing in Theory and Practice 6. Participation Works - If Conditions are Appropriate 7. Myth and Reality: Valediction

Organizational functioning in a cross-cultural perspective

If the above interpretation of the title is correct, then only three reports fulfill the titles promise. In Chapter 5, Brown and Blandin present an attempt to replicate, in the U.S. and in Denmark, the work of Lawrence and Lorsch. They selected electronics firms in both countries as examples of firms in a highly uncertain environment, while wood products firms in the U.S. and process industry companies in Denmark represented organizations in a relatively secure setting.

Safety culture in nuclear power operations

Conceptual Bases of Safety Culture. Societal Dynamics and Trends in Nuclear Safety Issues. Safety Management in the Nuclear Industry. Managing Personnel and Work Place Issues in Nuclear Operations.

What's so Special About Quality Circles?

third highest in the world in 1980. With virtually no physical resources, it supports over 11Ii miIlion people, has a balance of trade surplus of

Projecting a European Diploma in Psychology

75 biIlion and has an investment rate and a GNP growth rate that is double the US rate. (Pascale and Athos, 1981.) 2. Report on Trade with Japan of the Subcommittee on Trade of the Committee on Ways and Means, US House of Representatives, Washington, 5th September 1980, preface (emphasis added).

Psychology and human factors engineering

The paper presents an inside evaluation of the EuroPsyT project, funded by the EU Leonardo Program in 1999-2001. While standard research usually neglects to reflect on the internal and external con...

Emerging Demands for the Safety of Nuclear Power Operations: Challenge and Response

Der Beitrag behandelt drei aufeinander bezogene Themen: (1) Das design hoch komplexer sozio-technischer Systeme hohen Gefährdungspotentials, (2) die Merkmale des Human Factors Engineering, (3) theoretische Aspekte von Design Aktivitäten und des kreativen Problemlösens. Das erste Thema artikuliert die spezifischen Schwierigkeiten herkömmlicher Konflikte zwischen einem Technik-getriebenen Design und der Notwendigkeit kognitive und Handlungskompetenzen sowie individuelle Begrenzungen und Bedürfnisse von Operateuren zu integrieren. Das zweite Thema bearbeitet die Anforderungen des human factors engineering im Zusammenhang mit einer Initiative des Vereins Deutscher Ingenieure (VDI) ingenieurwissenschaftliche Design Prozesse aus rein Technik-getriebenen Ansätzen in Richtung ganzheitlicher Ansätze zu orientieren, bei denen in allen Phasen des Designprozesses Human Factor Aspekte berücksichtigt werden. Der Schlussteil reflektiert die psychologischen Aspekte von Kreativität und Design. The presentation deals with three interrelated issues: (1) The design of highly complex socio-technical systems with high hazard potential, (2) the nature of human factors engineering, (3) the theoretical aspects of design and creative problem finding/solving. The first theme articulates the specific difficulties arising from the usual conflicts between purely technology driven demands and the need to integrate the cognitive and action capacities, limitations and needs of the human operator. The second theme addresses the requirements of human factors engineering in the context of a novel initiative of the German Verband Deutscher Ingenieure (VDI). The object of this initiative is to reorient engineering design processes from an exclusively technology driven process towards using a holistic approach which at any design stage takes into account human factor aspects. The concluding section reflects on the theoretical dimensions of creativity and design.

Safety Culture: Analysis and Intervention

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Barriers to the Metamorphosis of European Psychology

The paper deals with issues of safety culture in three steps. The first step will refer to the origins and central connotation of culture and of safety culture. The second step will touch on the difficulties of analysing and measuring safety culture with reference to some recent research programs. The concluding third step will propose some approaches on how to introduce and sustain an effective safety culture in high hazard systems.