Welcome to our Blog where we delve into some of the most interesting aspects of Just Culture.
Not having a Just Culture could be putting your business at legal risk
A Just Culture has always been a great thing to have, but is fast becoming a must have. New psychosocial hazard laws require employers to safeguard their employees’ mental health, just as they would their physical health.
This article explains these hazards and outlines how a Just Culture can eliminate or mitigate the risks arising from them.
Flexible Work Arrangements and Just Culture
Flexible work arrangements are essentially departures from the traditional 9-5 office hours or from whatever the ‘normal’ work arrangements are for that industry. They can take many forms including job sharing, changes to work hours, or remote work.
How can we navigate the question of flexible work arrangements consistently with having a just and fair workplace culture?
The Different Types of Human Error and How to Respond Fairly and Effectively
If you want to build a just and fair workplace culture, it’s vital to respond appropriately when staff make errors or things go wrong. Knowing how to respond involves understanding different types of human error and the reasons why they occur.
Errors can be divided firstly into intentional and unintentional actions. This does not mean whether the person intended to make an error (the outcome), that is very rare. Rather, it refers to whether the action was what the person intended. This will become more clearly as we go through the four most common types of errors.
Which model of Just Culture is right for my business?
When implementing a Just Culture in your business, one of the critical decisions is what kind of Just Culture model do you want? There are different models of Just Culture out there and they all have their strengths and weaknesses. In most cases the differences are not so much whether a model has this or that feature, but rather where it places the most emphasis. In this post I set out three of the most common models and their characteristics, so that you can consider which might be most suitable for your business.
Why aren’t my staff following the procedures like they used to?
Why aren’t my staff following the procedures like they used to? Believe or not, it unlikely to be because your staff have suddenly become lazy, stupid, or malicious. Rather, there is a good chance that your business is experiencing organisational drift.