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 Multiple identities in high reliability organizations: : a case study.
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 Multiple identities in high reliability organizations: : a case study.

2.024  Journal Of Management Inquiry, v. 33, n. 2, p. 165–183, 2024.   VAZ, Samir Lótfi;  MAIA, Gabriela Xavier;  NELSON, Reed E.;  HENRIQSON, Éder. Artigo Vaz, Samir Lótfi Professor TI Nacional Fundação Dom Cabral - FDC VAZ, Samir Lótfi;  MAIA, Gabriela Xavier;  NELSON, Reed E.;  HENRIQSON, Éder. It is generally accepted that consensus about the features of the “high reliability” identity allow organizations performing hazardous activities to act in an error-free manner. This work challenges this assumption, providing evidence of multiple identities in a High Reliability Organization. We conducted an inductive case study in a large oil and gas producer, whose top executives emphasized safety as a central and distinctive feature of the company. Our analysis was based on extensive data: presentations, interviews, observation, and conversations. The results permit us to describe two organizational identities of safety on offshore oil platforms: “controlling” and “caring.” We found that managers and workers interpreted safety both as imposing “strict sanctions” and possessing “meaningful value.” They expressed the organizational identity through varying forms of antinomies: authoritative versus respectful interactions and resisting versus adapting actions. These dynamics of identity help us better understand the organizational process of “becoming” highly reliable. Inglês Documento eletrônico