Restorative Just Culture: From Disciplinary Action to Meaningful Accountability, Fourth Edition, Edition 4
About this ebook
Whether you’re grappling with the fallout of an incident or seeking to foster a culture of trust and compassion, this book offers invaluable insights and practical guidance. This fascinating title challenges the traditional concept of accountability and urges the reader to consider not just who broke the rules, but who was harmed and what their needs are. Written by a pioneer in the field, this book draws from extensive case studies and fresh insights. Through narratives and thought-provoking analysis, the author explores the transformative power of restorative justice and the complexities of human error in organizational settings. New to this edition are new chapters, updates to criminalizing human error, a section on forgiveness, coverage of implementing restorative justice in an organization and much more. The reader of this book can reevaluate how they see their workplace culture and how it can be made safer and fairer.
Restorative Just Culture: From Disciplinary Action to Meaningful Accountability, Fourth Edition is a must-read for professionals in health and safety, business and management, and others with accountability in professional environments.
About the author
Sidney Dekker (PhD, Ohio State University, Ohio, 1996) is Professor and Director of the Safety Science Innovation Lab at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia. Sidney has lived and worked in seven countries across four continents. He coined the terms “safety differently” and “restorative just culture” in the 2010s, which have since turned into global movements for change. They encourage organizations to declutter their bureaucracy and enhance the capacities in people and processes that make things go well—and to offer compassion, restoration and learning when they don’t. He has been flying a Boeing 737 for an airline on the side and is a trained mediator and chaplain. Sidney is a prolific and bestselling author of the following titles from Taylor & Francis; Random Noise; Foundations of Safety Science; The Safety Anarchist; The End of Heaven; Just Culture; Safety Differently; The Field Guide to Understanding ‘Human Error’; Second Victim; Drift into Failure; Patient Safety; and Compliance Capitalism. He has co-directed the documentaries “Safety Differently” 2017; “Just Culture” 2018, “The Complexity of Failure” 2018 and “Doing Safety Differently” 2019. More at sidneydekker.com
