ELSE

2025
  • Natalia Jubault Krasnopevtseva
  • Renata Kaminska
  • Catherine Thomas

Organizing for resilience in high-risk organizations: The interplay between managerial coordination and control in resolving stability/flexibility tensions in a nuclear power plant

To avoid accidents, organizations operating in high-risk environments must develop resilience in the face of uncertainty. While uncertainty can be reduced through anticipation and prevention via procedural barriers—ensuring organizational stability—it can also be managed through actor autonomy, allowing for prompt, localized responses that enhance organizational flexibility. This qualitative case study of a European nuclear power […]

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2024
  • Yoann Guntzburger
  • Natalia Jubault Krasnopevtseva
  • Renata Kaminska
  • Catherine Thomas

Building a conceptual framework of organizationally embedded tensions to enhance Leadership for Safety in high-risk and highly regulated organizations: A Complexity Leadership

Despite advancements in ensuring safety, high-risk and highly regulated organizations have not been immune to major life-threatening accidents. Growing evidence indicates that these accidents are not solely attributable to the limitations of technical barriers, but rather to the complex interactions among technical, human, and organizational factors. While both the literature and regulatory frameworks have acknowledged […]

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2024
  • Natalia Jubault Krasnopevtseva

Uncovering Mechanisms of Leadership as Influence Process. Leadership During a Crisis

Dealing with the crises and their consequences requires effective leadership. It has been suggested that the direct influence of leaders on organisational outcomes has been overestimated, which calls for more processual approaches and additional research on the mechanisms that might explain the causal relationship between what leaders do and how what they do affects followers […]

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Publication Type(s): Book Chapter, ELSE
Publication Tags: Leadership for Safety
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
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
  • Natalia Jubault Krasnopevtseva

Challenges of developing leadership for safety in high-risk industries: an organizational approach. The case of the nuclear sector.

Despite their efforts to increase organizational reliability, high-risk industries, such as nuclear power production, have experienced major disasters in recent years. As a consequence, a new form of safety emerged – managed safety, which must be developed alongside regulated safety. Research on high reliability organizations and resilience shows that only a mutual reinforcement of these […]

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Publication Type(s): ELSE, Thesis Defense
Publication Tags: Leadership for Safety
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
  • Yoann Guntzburger
  • Natalia Jubault Krasnopevtseva
  • Renata Kaminska
  • Catherine Thomas

Leadership for Resilience and Safety Management: Crossing Perspectives on Individual and Collective Tensions in the Nuclear Industry

Paper presented at the Association pour la gestion des connaissances dans la société et les organisations (AGeCSO) Conference, held online and in Chambon-sur-Lac, France, from 18 to 20 May 2021. More information:

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Publication Type(s): Colloquium, ELSE, Professional
Publication Tags: Resilience, Safety 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