Competing values, tensions and trade-offs in management of nuclear power plants.
The specific goal of the study is to look how tensions, competing values and trade-offs manifest in the management of nuclear power plants. Second goal is to inspect how existing frameworks, such as Competing Values Framework, can be used to model the tensions. Empirical data consists of thirty interviews that were conducted as part of a NKS study on safety culture in the Nordic nuclear branch. Eight trade-offs are identified based on a grounded theory based analysis of the interview data. The competing values and potential tensions involved in the trade-offs are discussed.
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, VTT, Finland. teemu.reiman@vtt.fi.
Teemu
T
Reiman
Carl
C
Rollenhagen
D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008960:Models, Psychological; D055848:Nuclear Power Plants; D015279:Organizational Culture; D017751:Safety Management; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000523:psychology*