Characteristics of organizational culture at the maintenance units of two Nordic nuclear power plants

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 331-345

  Reiman, Teemu ^a   Oedewald, Pia ^a   Rollenhagen, Carl ^b  

^a VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^b MÄLARDALEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Maintenance work; Organizational assessment; Organizational culture; Safety culture; Task analysis; Work psychology

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; DECISION MAKING; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; PROBLEM SOLVING; RELIABILITY; SOCIAL ASPECTS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

MAINTENANCE WORK; ORGANIZATIONAL ASSESSMENT; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE; SAFETY CULTURE; TASK ANALYSIS; WORK PSYCHOLOGY;

PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 15844426876     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2004.09.004     Document Type: Article

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