The natural selection of organizational and safety culture within a small to medium sized enterprise (SME)
Author:Benjamin Brooks
Source:Journal of Safety Research 39 (2008) 73–85
Abstract:
Introduction:
Small to Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) form the majority of Australian businesses.
Method:
This study uses ethnographic research methods(人類學的研究方法) to describe the organizational culture of a small furniture-manufacturing business in southern Australia.
Results:
Results show a range of cultural assumptions variously ‘embedded’ within the enterprise. In line with memetics – Richard Dawkin's cultural application of Charles Darwin's theory of Evolution by Natural Selection, the author suggests that these assumptions compete to be replicated and retained within the organization. The author suggests that dominant assumptions are naturally selected, and that the selection can be better understood by considering the cultural assumptions in reference to Darwin's original principles and Frederik Barth's anthropological framework of knowledge. The results are discussed with reference to safety systems, negative cultural elements called Cultural Safety Viruses, and how our understanding of this particular organizational culture might be used to build resistance to these viruses.
個人感想:
這篇質型研究,看題目就知道很另類、宏觀與發人深省(連人類學家都跨行來研究工安,工安真的如此有搞頭嗎?)
一些想藉量性研究方法找出改善中小企業安全績效的專家,或許應該先看看人家泡在田野當中的寶貴洞見
以下用摘錄(=斷章取義)的方式呈現一些重點