Managing the Change of Cultural Resistance
(2005) Managing the Change of Cultural Resistance. In Proceedings Social Change in the 21st Century Conference, QUT Carseldine, Brisbane.
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Abstract
The review of numerous Australian and International Transport and Health Safety cases has highlighted the detrimental effect of cultural resistance when engineers and regulators seek to improve transport safety. This paper will define culture and cultural resistance. It will review a number of cases and provide an overview of the effect of cultural resistance, demonstrating some common characteristics of these cases. A limited number of risk management disciplines will be reviewed as they apply to the problem, and demonstrate how expertise in these fields can be advantageous to the engineer and regulator. The paper will provide the reader with a number of resolution strategies to manage cultural change by reducing resistance using practical methods. This paper has specific relevance to transport safety initiatives in Australia. This paper is an extract of a full research paper "Making the Kingfisher Archipelago a Safer Place", Smith, D.B., 2005, available from the author upon request.
| Item Type: | Conference Paper |
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| Status: | Published |
| Keywords: | culture;resistance;cultural resistance;transport safety |
| Subjects: | 370000 Studies in Human Society > 370100 Sociology > 370107 Social Change |
| ID Code: | 3546 |
| Deposited By: | Willans, Bernadette |
| Deposited On: | 17 February 2006 |
| Copyright Owner: | Copyright 2005 David B. Smith |