Y is best: How Distributed Situational Awareness is mediated by organisational structure and correlated with task success

Safety Science

Volumn 56, Issue , 2013, Pages 72-79

  Sorensen, L J ^a   Stanton, N A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Correlation; Distributed Situational Awareness; Organisational structures; Team performance

Indexed keywords

CONTRIBUTING FACTOR; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; SAFE OPERATION; SAFETY-CRITICAL; SITUATIONAL AWARENESS; TEAM PERFORMANCE;

OPTICAL CORRELATION; SAFETY TESTING;

RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEMALE; FRATRICIDE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LEADERSHIP; MALE; MILITARY PHENOMENA; ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY; SOCIAL INTERACTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEAMWORK; VIOLENCE;

EID: 84875858536     PISSN: 09257535     EISSN: 18791042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2012.05.026     Document Type: Article

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