Conference

2023
  • Savéria Cecchi
  • Pierre Daniel
  • Nadine Gabor
  • Sascha Gentes
  • Yoann Guntzburger
  • Natalia Jubault Krasnopevtseva
  • Renata Kaminska
  • Jacques Repussard
  • Joseph A. Ridao Cabrerizo
  • Evelyne Rouby
  • Catherine Thomas

Nuclear decommissioning: project management and leadership

Management and leadership for safety relate to managerial competencies necessary to develop, promote and sustain a safety culture and to set goals, lead others and manage knowledge and projects to enhance safety performance. The development of these competencies is needed to enrich and complement the predominant technical background and skills of engineers and/or managers involved […]

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Publication Type(s): Conference, DMaLSE, ELSE, Professional
2021
  • Natalia Jubault Krasnopevtseva
  • Renata Kaminska
  • Catherine Thomas

Unintended cascading effects of expanding organizational limits for resilience: lessons from the nuclear industry

The recent COVID pandemic revived the interest in resilience as the ability to absorb strain and preserve (or improve) functioning despite the presence of adversity. To increase resilience, organizations must articulate both the ways to deal with predictable and unpredictable events. In this study, the theory of organizational limits was used with the aim to […]

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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

Leadership for Resilient Organizing: a Critical Realist Approach to Revisit the Role of Leadership in High-Risk Organizations

There is a growing interest in studying leadership for resilient organizing. Models of leadership evolved from static, leader-centric, toward more social and processual, generating new questions about the role of leaders. Process perspective on leadership brings into light the importance of the context in which leadership unfolds. Based on a Critical Realist epistemology and applying […]

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Publication Type(s): Conference, ELSE, Professional
Publication Tags: Leadership for Safety
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