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Safety during changes: Development and implementation of automated technology in a high-risk organization
Get PDFThis thesis aimed to explore safety during changes and more specific, safety in managing development and implementation of automated technology in a high-risk organization. A longitudinal case study of an implementation process of new technology on an offshore oil and gas installation was carried through. In all, 43 interviews, and participative observations offshore and onshore were conducted. Grounded theory was used to analyse the data.
The findings reported in the first paper indicated that according to the readiness to change theory of Armenakis and Harris (2009) the implementation process had been a success as the technology was accepted. However, findings further indicated that the trust from the crew members was too high, according to the theory of high reliability organizations (HRO) (Weick & Sutcliffe, 2007), and that a non-questioning culture contributed to a change process that resulted in a serious unwanted incident.
The second paper found that the development phase of the product could have benefitted from more thoroughly human factors and human reliability analyses. Mishaps that had occurred due to incorrect use of the product were found to partly be because the developers did not sufficiently comprehend who they were developing for. Insufficient human factors analyses was partly the reason why the product ended as more costly than necessary, not as user friendly as requested, and end users having insufficient knowledge on safe usage and potential risks of the technology.
The third paper presented a critical review on traditional change management theories and how they were considered insufficient regarding ensuring safety. The main reason was that the emphasis is on ensuring willingness to change which does not correspond with the emphasis on diversity and trained scepticism, which HRO recommend. The paper presents a model that, based on both theory and practice, gives a step by step guidance on how to conduct changes within organizations with a focus on safety.
The conclusion of the thesis is that HRO and human factors is recommended to be intertwined elements in change processes in high-risk organisations in order to ensure a safest possible change in high risk industries
Onboarding i en hybrid arbetsvardag
No full textI takt med att den digitala utvecklingen har utvecklats drastiskt, har också behovet av arbetstagare med den digitala kunskapen ökat. Den kunskapen är väsentlig för de tvärvetenskapliga softwareteamen som arbetar med organisationers digitala utveckling. Samtidigt är antalet som utbildas med den kompetensen mycket lägre än behovet. Det resulterar i att dessa arbetstagare är högt eftertraktade. För att behålla dessa arbetstagare i organisationen blir det aktuellt att fokusera på onboardingsprocessen, med den insikten att det är nära förknippat med turnover. I samband med pandemin Covid-19, har det blivit alltmer aktuellt att använda sig av hybrida onboardingsprocesser. Syftet med denna studie är att identifiera de viktiga element som har betydelse för hur nyanställda upplever att onboardas hybrid in ett softwareteam. Denna studie är baserad på semi-strukturerade intervjuer med sju informanter från sju olika team, i samma sektor. Med hjälp av en tematisk analys av intervjuerna kunde jag identifiera fyra huvudteman: Behov av struktur, Passivt och aktivt lärande, Känna social trygghet, Givande och tagande av kunskap. Studien visar på en kombination av dessa komponenter för en lyckad onboardingsprocess där de nyanställda trivs, känner anknytning till organisationen och upplever psykologisk trygghet i teamet. Arbetslivserfarenhet har även varit en komponent som återkommer och spelar in i de fyra huvudtemana. Studien föreslår praktiska implikationer som kan vara viktiga för organisationer att ta i beaktande för deras onboardingsprocesser. Studien föreslår ytterligare forskning på hybrid onboarding för bredare förståelse för vilka faktorer som kan ha inverkan på nyanställdas upplevelse.
Nyckelord: Onboarding, Nyanställda, Softwareteams, Hybrid arbetsordning, Psykologisk trygghe
Onboarding i en hybrid arbetsvardag
Get PDFI takt med att den digitala utvecklingen har utvecklats drastiskt, har också behovet av arbetstagare med den digitala kunskapen ökat. Den kunskapen är väsentlig för de tvärvetenskapliga softwareteamen som arbetar med organisationers digitala utveckling. Samtidigt är antalet som utbildas med den kompetensen mycket lägre än behovet. Det resulterar i att dessa arbetstagare är högt eftertraktade. För att behålla dessa arbetstagare i organisationen blir det aktuellt att fokusera på onboardingsprocessen, med den insikten att det är nära förknippat med turnover. I samband med pandemin Covid-19, har det blivit alltmer aktuellt att använda sig av hybrida onboardingsprocesser. Syftet med denna studie är att identifiera de viktiga element som har betydelse för hur nyanställda upplever att onboardas hybrid in ett softwareteam. Denna studie är baserad på semi-strukturerade intervjuer med sju informanter från sju olika team, i samma sektor. Med hjälp av en tematisk analys av intervjuerna kunde jag identifiera fyra huvudteman: Behov av struktur, Passivt och aktivt lärande, Känna social trygghet, Givande och tagande av kunskap. Studien visar på en kombination av dessa komponenter för en lyckad onboardingsprocess där de nyanställda trivs, känner anknytning till organisationen och upplever psykologisk trygghet i teamet. Arbetslivserfarenhet har även varit en komponent som återkommer och spelar in i de fyra huvudtemana. Studien föreslår praktiska implikationer som kan vara viktiga för organisationer att ta i beaktande för deras onboardingsprocesser. Studien föreslår ytterligare forskning på hybrid onboarding för bredare förståelse för vilka faktorer som kan ha inverkan på nyanställdas upplevelse.
Nyckelord: Onboarding, Nyanställda, Softwareteams, Hybrid arbetsordning, Psykologisk trygghetThe need for employees with digital knowledge has increased, due to the rapid expansion in digital development. Digital knowledge is essential for interdisciplinary software teams, that are working with digital development within the organization. The problem for organizations is that these employees are highly desired. It is relevant to focus on the onboarding process to keep desired employees in the organization because it’s closely associated with turnover. A hybrid onboarding process has become more relevant in light of the Covid-19 pandemic. The purpose of this study is to identify important elements that may have an impact on how new employees experience hybrid onboarding into a software team. This study is based on semi-structured interviews with seven informants from different teams, within the same sector. Four main themes were generated using a thematic analysis on the interviews: Need for structure, Passive and active learning, Feeling socially secure, Giving and taking knowledge. In addition, work experience has been a consistent found that has had an impact on all the main themes. The results suggest a combination of these components for a successful onboarding process where employees are satisfied, feel safe in the team, and are committed to the organization. The study suggests practical implications that may be important for organizations to consider in an onboarding process.The study also suggests further research on hybrid onboarding for a broader understanding of the factors that may have an impact on new employees' experience
Keywords: Onboarding, New employees, Software teams, Hybrid working, Psychological safet
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Road traffic safety for work-related driving with heavy goods vehicles - it’s a shared responsibility
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Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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