Tolerability, organizational

Safety Critical Actions—Specific steps humans take that provide layers of protection to lower the risk category of a specific scenario or scenarios from unacceptable to acceptable as defined by organizational risk tolerance criteria. Sometimes called administrative control. Such steps... 

Low Tolerance to Change Based on job insecurity or lack of organizational stability. 

Conformance monitoring and inconsistency toleration. Another important feature of our approach (not presented here) is the monitoring and control of the inter-organizational cooperation. Upon modification, each process view is checked by the management system for conformance with the process meta-model of dynamic task nets. Detected violations of structural and behavioral constraints are reported to the process managers. They may either modify the process views in order to re-establish consistency or tolerate the violation. 

Table 6.1 offers behavioral manifestations of inclusive leadership across multiple levels of system to demonstrate the importance of attending to each level simultaneously. The need to notice and make choices about what is happening in the midst of all this complexity creates a developmental challenge that requires individual and organizational capacity to tolerate and embrace uncertainty. This challenge arises within the individual, between people in relationships, and in the context of systems designed to support the active involvement of all individuals and groups. For leaders and practitioners who want to further develop their capacities for inclusive leadership, the third column offers additional resources to pursue. 

An organizational culture that tolerates, encourages, and/or does not significantly punish misconduct by its engineers. 

An organizational reward system that incentivizes or tolerates ethically questionable research, publication, or funding practices. 

These are the conditions in existence immediately prior or at the time of the incident that directly influences human and equipment performance in the workplace. These are the circumstances under which the errors and violations took place and can be embedded in task demands, the work environment, individual capabilities and human factors. Deficiencies in these conditions can promote the occurrence of errors and violations. They may also stem from an organizational factor type such as risk management, training, incompatible goals, or organization, when the system tolerates their long term existence. 

System resilience is the ability of organizational, hardware, and software systems to mitigate the severity and likelihood of failures or losses, to adapt to changing conditions, and to respond appropriately after the fact. Safety culture is a key element in system resilience. The goal of system resilience is to always function and never fail, but if failure should occur, then recovery is the next goal. System resilience focuses on a combination of fault tolerance... 

Meanings are selected based on the organizational cultures espoused and underlying assumptions, personal experience and perceptions, peer experiences, etc. These meanings include how risk acceptance is viewed by the organization and what level of risk tolerance is expected. 

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