Management

2023
  • Evelyne Rouby
  • Catherine Thomas

From individual to collective qualities of attention in dynamic work settings: learning barriers to development of collective mindful attention

In dynamic work settings, developing a collective mindful attention is crucial but challenging. It can be achieved through learning. However, the relationships between mindful attention and learning are complex and recursive. Mindful attention is both the prerequisite and the outcome of learning. Based on a single case study of a cement plant, an inductive model […]

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Publication Type(s): Academic Journal, ELSE
Publication Tags: Management
2022
  • Carole Daniel
  • Pierre Daniel
  • Hedley Smyth

The role of mindfulness in the management of projects: Potential opportunities in research and practice

Mindfulness is receiving growing attention in the project management community, probably due its proven beneficial effects at individual, team and organization levels in other management domains. Indeed, 80% of the 50 publications identified in this paper were published over the last decade. This review addresses the disparate extant publications related to mindfulness in the field […]

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Publication Type(s): Academic Journal, ELSE
Publication Tags: Management
2021
  • Natalia Jubault Krasnopevtseva
  • Renata Kaminska
  • Catherine Thomas

Resilience and organizational limits in the high-risk nuclear industry context

The ongoing COVID-19 crisis renewed scholarly interest in organizational resilience. To ensure resilience, organizations must develop the ability to proactively prepare for ambiguous and unexpected situations. From this perspective, resilience may be considered as a mindful process leading to reliability where mindfulness allows to collectively manage stability/vividness tension and extend individual limits of attention. Following […]

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Publication Type(s): Conference, ELSE, Professional
Publication Tags: Management, Resilience
2020
  • Natalia Jubault Krasnopevtseva
  • Renata Kaminska
  • Catherine Thomas

The Dynamics of Safety Risk Perception in High Reliability Organizations

Risk is particularly inherent in everyday activities of high reliability organizations such as, for example, nuclear power plants. Research on risk perception has largely emphasized the process of its social construction, neglecting the interaction between risk perception and the way risk is actually managed. There is a rich literature on risk perception, safety culture and […]

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Publication Type(s): Conference, ELSE, Professional
2019
  • Valérie Mérindol
  • Evelyne Rouby
  • Catherine Thomas

Heedful interrelating in three modes: Reliability versus performance in French fighter pilot squadron

This paper explores the way that the cognitive and behavioural resources of heedfully interrelating agents are distributed across the competing claims for attention from, respectively reliability and performance, both under collaborative and adversarial conditions, and in circumstances in which the scope for sense making varies with the complexity and uncertainty of the environment. Such resources […]

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Publication Type(s): Colloquium, ELSE, Professional
Publication Tags: Management, Performance, Sensemaking