Weick, Karl

Weick, Karl E. 1987. Organizational culture as a source of high reliability. Califorrtia Management Review 29 (2) 112-127. 

Weick, Karl E. 1999. K. Sutcliffe, and D. Obstfeld. Organizing for high reliability. Research in Organizational Behavior 21 81-123. 

Weick, Karl E. and Sutcliffe, Kathleen M. (2001) Managing the Unexpected Assuring High Performance in an Age of Complexity. Jossey-Bass San Francisco. 

Weick, Karl. E. (1979), The social psychology of organizing , Reading, MA Addison Wesley, ISBN 0201085917. 

Weick, Karl. E., Sutcliffe, K. M., Obstfeld, D. (1999), Organizing for high reliability Processes of collective mindfulness . Research in Organizational Behavior, 21 81-123. 

To begin with, we can get a flavour of life in an HRO from a US Navy veteran s description of life on board a carrier, quoted by Karl Weick and Kathy Sutcliffe ... 

Karl Weick Robust organizing and open organizations... 

First, we make a general acknowledgment to major contributors to the field of patient safety whose work we have drawn on for this book. Among them are James Reason, Karl Weick, Jens Rasmussen, Richard Cook, David Woods, and Karlene Roberts. Special thanks to Lucian Leape for writing the Foreword he has been not only a pioneer in the field but also a mentor. Don Berwick, president of the Center for Healthcare Improvement, and Jim Conway, chief operating officer of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, both in Boston, have made substantial contributions through their work, which appears in this book. 

The fragmentation of problem-solving also illustrates Karl Weick s points about how effective organizations exhibit a deference to expertise, reluctance to simplify interpretations, and preoccupation with potential for failure, none of which was in operation in NASA s organizational decision-making leading up to and during Columbia (Weick et al., 1999). 

One alternative to focusing on unwanted outcomes, which in a very real sense is what safety management does, is, curiously, to focus on what does not happen - or rather to focus on what we normally pay no attention to. In an article in California Management Review in 1987, professor Karl Weick famously introduced the idea of reliability as a dynamic non-event ... 

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