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Just Culture in La La Land
Photo: Steven Shorrock CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 https://flic.kr/p/Rpf4zaIt was always going to happen. The wrong Best Picture winner was read out live on air at The Oscars. Someone had to take the blame....
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Work and how to survive it: Lesson 3. Encourage the whole self
Much of my practice is informed by counselling and psychotherapy as well as humanistic psychology more generally. One of my problems with these fields, however, is that insights and discussions are...
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Four Kinds Of Thinking: 1. Humanistic Thinking
Several fields of study and spheres of professional activity aim to improve system performance or human wellbeing. Some focus on both objectives (e.g., human factors and ergonomics, organisational...
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HindSight 30 on Wellbeing is out now
HindSight Issue 30 on Wellbeing is now online at SKYbrary. You can download the full issue, and individual articles. HindSight magazine is free and published twice a year, reaching tens of thousands...
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The Commodification of Human Decency
Many ideas spring up in the world of management and organisational behaviour aimed at ‘treating people better’ – humanely. Very few of these, if any, are really new. Mostly, they stem from basic human...
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Adjusting to Major Life Changes
When stressful or traumatic life events come along, we all respond in different ways. One of these may seem counter-intuitive, that we can thrive and flourish following adversity. In this article,...
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On living and dying: 2. The simple thing wrong with us
Are there people in your life to whom you feel, at some level, a need to express something important? Or is there a change to your life that you know or feel, vaguely but persistently, you need to...
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Staying in control: Five suggestions from a long-distance psychologist on the...
Twenty-five years ago, I got my first job as a human factors specialist involved in research and development for air traffic management. As a young psychologist and ergonomist, I was involved in...
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Just Culture: Who Are We Really Afraid Of?
Douglas Sprott CC BY-NC 2.0 https://flic.kr/p/5orYgw When we think about just culture, we usually think about accidents and incidents, associated ‘honest mistakes’ and ‘negligence’ (by whatever name),...
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Humanistic Systems Collections: The Albums & EPs
Since I starting blogging, I have written posts on a range of topics concerning work and life. I write to help to make sense of and record my thinking, and communicate this in case it is helpful to...
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