Saving Human Lives

Lessons in Management Ethics

By: Robert E. Allinson

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Hardcover | 3 November 2005

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This is a pioneering work. Recent disasters such as the tsunami disaster continue to demonstrate Professor Allinson's thesis that valuing human lives is the core of ethical management. His unique comparison of the ideas of the power of Fate and High Technology, his penetrating analysis of the very concept of an "accident", demonstrate how concepts rule our lives. His wide-ranging investigation of court cases and government documents from the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries, and from places as diverse as the USA, UK and New Zealand provide ample supporting evidence for the universality and the power of explanation of his thesis. Saving Human Lives will have an impact beyond measurement on the field of management ethics.

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"Saving Human Lives gives a step by step account of how management systems can be built that can prevent hitherto "unpreventable" disasters. Professor Allinson weaves convincing arguments from original linguistic, literary and ethical analyses and shows how these arguments apply to highly detailed and well documented case studies. Those of us in the field of business ethics are grateful for this creative combination of philosophical argumentation and the marshalling of widespread, empirical evidence that persuades us that, notwithstanding commonly held beliefs, most industrial crises are preventable through sound management structures and decision-making processes only when they are rooted in ethical values and beliefs on the part of top management."
(S. Prakash Sethi, President, International Center for Corporate Accountability, Inc., University Distinguished Professor, Baruch College, City University of New York)

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Accidents, Tragedies And Disasters
The Rule Of Accidental
The Explanation Of Human Error
The Explanation Of A Breakdown Of A Material Or Technical Component And Its Corollary, "Risky Technology" Risky Or Unruly Technology?
The Explanation Of Organizational Inertia Or Bureaucratic Drift Accidents Will Happen
The Word 'Accident'
The Belief In Monocausality Multi-Causality And Multiple Responsibility
Fault Finding And The Scapegoat Warnings And Ethics Freedom And Ethics Notes
Ethics As Involved
In The Goals Of An Organization
Ethics And The Conduct Of Business Enterprise
Ethics And The Infrastructure Of A Business Organization
Ethics And Informal Channels Of Communication

The Buck Stops Here
The Will To Communicate
The Manager's Task Notes
Conceptual Preparedness
The Explicit Prioritization Of A Safety Ethos Notes
The Vasa Disaster
The Stability Test
The Question Of Ballast
The Wind Pressure On The Sails
Conclusions
Notes
The Collision Causes Of The Disaster Speed Of The Ship Weather
Causes Of Deaths Relevant Design Features Rivets
The Inadequacy Of The Human Error Hypothesis Lifeboats
Third-Class Passengers Nearby Rescue Possibilities
The Rescue By The
Speed
Recommendations
Notes
A Brief Synopsis Key Words
The Word 'Accident' Cause And Contributing Cause
The Atmosphere Of The Decision Making Process
A Fixed Deadline Must Be Met That A Wrong Decision Will Have Grave Consequences
The Presence Of Irregularities (A.)
The Lack Of Any Clear Uniform Guidelines As To Moral Criteria
The Lack Of A Spelled Out Decision Making Mechanism Management Structure
The Language Of Communication Responsibility: Bottom Up Top Down Responsibility Dormant Stage
The Will To Communicate
Safety Priority Decision Making Safety First?
Is There A Greater Sense Of Responsibility Now?
Were Middle Managers Simply Following Policy?
Were The Middle Managers Moral?
Normalized Decisions?
Links Between Temperature And Erosion Faith In The Secondary Seal?
The Question Of "Hard Data" Ethical Decision Making
Conclusion
Notes
The Orders A Dysfunctional Management Technical Component
The Closing Of The Doors
The Will To Communicate
The King's Cross Underground Fire Epistemological Frameworks Compared
The Use Of Words
The Cause Of The Fire Responsibility For The Fire: Top Down Responsibility: Bottom Up
The Importance Of A Safety Ethos Fennell's Recommendations: The Primacy Of Safety
The Disaster On Mt. Erebus
A Short History Of The Disaster
The Evidence From The Flight-Deck Tapes
Vette's Text Macfarlane's
Notes On Vette's Text Taking
A Phenomenological View
The Whiteout Phenomenon Phenomenological
Approach: Tapes The Coherence Theory Of Truth Mismanagement
The Cause Of The Disaster Defects In Administrative Structure Defects
In Administrative Communications System Summary Of Management Defects
The Lack Of Any Safety Ethos
Notes


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