Organizing for Reliability : A Guide for Research and Practice

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- PART I: SETTING THE STAGE -- 1. Advancing Organizational Reliability -- 2. The Multiple Meanings and Models of Reliability in Organizational Research -- PART II: IMPORTANT ASPECTS OF RELIABLE ORGANIZING -- 3. Three Lenses for Understanding Reliable, Safe, and Effective Organizations: Strategic Design, Political, and Cultural Approaches -- 4. Mindful Organizing -- 5. Reliability through Resilience in Organizational Teams -- 6. How High Reliability Mitigates Organizational Goal Conflicts -- 7. Organizational Learning as Reliability Enhancement -- 8. Metaphors of Communication in High Reliability Organizations -- 9. Extending Reliability Analysis across Organizations, Time, and Scope -- PART III: IMPLEMENTATION -- 10. Organizing for Reliability in Health Care -- 11. Organizing for Reliability in Practice: Searching for Resilience in Communities at Risk -- 12. Applying Reliability Principles: Lessons Learned -- Epilogue -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.