Rule- and Role-Retreat: An Empirical Study of Procedures and Resilience
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Summary, in English
To manage complex and dynamic socio-technical systems places demands on teams to deal with a range of more and less foreseeable situations. Three groups of participants with different maritime experiences were studied using the same simulation of a ship to better understand the role of generic competencies (e.g. information management, communication and coordination, decision making, and effect control) play in such high-demand situations. Groups with moderate maritime experience were able to balance contextual knowledge with use of generic competencies to successfully manage unexpected and escalating situations. Novices, lacking contextual knowledge, performed less well. Groups with the most maritime expertise remained committed to presumed procedures and roles and did not perform as well as the other two groups. The results suggest that training to operate complex socio-technical systems safely and effectively should go beyond procedures and include development of generic competencies. This could provide operators with better tools to enhance organizational resilience in unexpected and escalating situations.
Department/s
- Lund University Centre for Risk Assessment and Management (LUCRAM)
- Division of Fire Safety Engineering
- Division of Risk Management and Societal Safety
- School of Aviation
Publishing year
2009
Language
English
Pages
75-90
Publication/Series
Journal of Maritime Research
Volume
6
Issue
1
Document type
Journal article
Publisher
SEECMAR
Topic
- Building Technologies
- Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
- Other Engineering and Technologies not elsewhere specified
- Other Civil Engineering
Keywords
- training
- resilience
- emergency management
- procedures
- simulation
Status
Published
Research group
- LUCRAM (Lund University Center for Risk Analysis and Management
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 1697-9133