Organizational errors: Directions for future research
By Paul S. Goodman, R. Ramanujam, J. Carroll, Amy C. Edmondson, David Hofmann, Kathleen M. Sutcliffe. 2011
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The goal of this chapter is to promote research about organizational errors—i.e., the actions of multiple organizational participants that deviate from organizationally specified rules and can potentially result in adverse organizational outcomes. To that end, we advance the premise that organizational errors merit study in their own right as an organizational-level phenomenon of growing theoretical and managerial significance. We delineate organizational errors as a construct that is distinct from but related to individual-level errors, and draw attention to its multi-level antecedents, mediating processes, and outcomes. We also discuss error management processes such as prevention, resilience, and learning, and call for research to expand our currently limited understanding of how these processes unfold over time, i.e., before, during, and after the occurrence of organizational errors. Further, in the light of a recurring critique of prior error-related organizational studies as being narrowly context-bound and therefore of limited interest to organizational researchers in general, we elaborate on the critical need for future research to explicitly take into account the role of contextual features. We conclude with a discussion of key themes, unresolved issues, and promising research directions.
Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Radiological and Ultrasound Technology, Strategy and Management
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- Organisational resilience capacity and firm product innovativeness and performance (2014, background): “Also, people seek to increase the chances of a corrective response through a mindset of vigilance based on a shared understanding that human error can occur at any time (Goodman et al. 2011).”