Ensuring supplier safety analysis is not performed in isolation! The gulf between the Project Safety Engineer and the Front Line User

Rules enforced on front-line operators are not only unique to aviation and other high-risk industries; in fact, the topic of rules is just as important in business, the economics of the Market, and public policy. The problem of how to design rules and procedures, with a keen eye toward compliance, has a long tradition in contractual relations. This tradition has produced a rich set of tactics to improve, by anticipatory design, contract and rule compliance. Along the same lines, rules that people devise for self-governance – such as those for prevention and performance – also contain many innovative tactics to improve compliance. The discussion is based on the work of the late Thomas Schelling (1921-2017) who was awarded the 2005 Nobel Prize in Economics for "having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis." His work on the topic of conflict, contracts, and rules is the basis for the framework proposed here. We also extend his work to procedure design, safety analysis, and discuss some implications of framework via one aviation example (stabilized approach procedure).

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Business: Conceptualizations of Organizational Change Viewed Through the Lens of Power: A Tutorial for the Speech-Language Pathologist/Audiologist Administrator

Perspectives on Administration and Supervision ◽

10.1044/aas21.1.9 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 21 (1) ◽

pp. 9-17

Author(s):

Patrick R. Walden

Keyword(s):

Organizational Change ◽

Health Care Organizations ◽

Social Power ◽

Social Systems ◽

Front Line ◽

Organization Level ◽

Speech Language Pathologist ◽

Constant State ◽

Theories Of Change ◽

Or Organization

Both educational and health care organizations are in a constant state of change, whether triggered by national, regional, local, or organization-level policy. The speech-language pathologist/audiologist-administrator who aids in the planning and implementation of these changes, however, may not be familiar with the expansive literature on change in organizations. Further, how organizational change is planned and implemented is likely affected by leaders' and administrators' personal conceptualizations of social power, which may affect how front line clinicians experience organizational change processes. The purpose of this article, therefore, is to introduce the speech-language pathologist/audiologist-administrator to a research-based classification system for theories of change and to review the concept of power in social systems. Two prominent approaches to change in organizations are reviewed and then discussed as they relate to one another as well as to social conceptualizations of power.

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