Global disasters : inquiries into management ethics
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Global disasters : inquiries into management ethics
Prentice Hall, 1993
Available at 11 libraries
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Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This text examines the causes of wide-scale technological disasters. The author states that these can be prevented, but also warns of the rise of "techno-organization" and the trend to blame disasters on the complexity of technological systems. The book attempts to answer the questions of how to appropriately design risky technical systems and how to manage them safely. It stresses the place of moral responsibility in corporations and its importance for forming a corporate ethos. The book further explores the useful lessons that can be learned from the Japanese management system and investigates four major diasters: the Challenger disaster; the King's Cross disaster; the "Herald of Free Enterprise" disaster; and the disaster on Mount Erebas.
Table of Contents
- The conceptual foundations
- the ethical foundations
- the buck stops here and it stops everyplace else as well
- crisis management and disaster prevention management
- the Challenger disaster
- post- Challenger investigations
- Has anything changed?
- the King's Cross disaster
- the Herald of Free Enterprise disaster
- the disaster on Mount Erebus
- the Lockerbie disaster
- the Japanese system of internal crisis prevention management
- the Japanese system of external crisis prevention management.
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