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dc.contributor.authorDekker, SWA
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T11:19:03Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T11:19:03Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.date.modified2011-03-31T04:47:24Z
dc.identifier.issn1435-5558
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s10111-008-0110-7
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/37890
dc.description.abstractA just culture is meant to balance learning from incidents with accountability for their consequences. All the current proposals for just cultures argue for a clear line between acceptable and unacceptable behavior. This alone, however, cannot promote just culture as it falsely assumes that culpability inheres in the act, bearing immutable features independent of context, language or interpretation. The critical question is not where to draw the line, but who gets to draw it. Culpability is socially constructed: the result of deploying one language to describe an incident, and of enacting particular post-conditions. Different accounts of the same incident are always possible (e.g. educational, organizational, political). They generate different repertoires of countermeasures and can be more constructive for safety. The issue is not to exonerate individual practitioners but rather what kind of accountability promotes justice and safety: backward-looking and retributive, or forward-looking and change-oriented.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherSpringer
dc.publisher.placeUSA
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom177
dc.relation.ispartofpageto185
dc.relation.ispartofissue3
dc.relation.ispartofjournalCognition, Technology and Work
dc.relation.ispartofvolume11
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchInformation systems
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCauses and prevention of crime
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCognitive and computational psychology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4609
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode440201
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode5204
dc.titleJust culture: who gets to draw the line?
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.date.issued2009
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorDekker, Sidney


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