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Semira Soraya-Kandan, Germany!
How to align multi-cultural organizations?
Workshop on Global Safety Culture — National Factors Relevant to Safety Culture IAEA Headquarters Vienna, Austria 8–11 April 2014
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Vietnam Traffic
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Libyan Traffic: ���Myths & Challenges
1. Perplexity & unsuited solutions
2. Religious accounts & myths
3. Foreign organizations foster safety culture countering social and political developments
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"Drive sensibly and you'll reach your
home; drive rashly and you'll reach your
heavenly abode!“
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Leverage indigenous wisdoms!
“If you drive safe and slow, you will reach
your home & family,
if you drive in a rash, you will reach
Haridwar.
Translation by @syamant 25.03.2014
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Culture and experience: Age matters! In some unprotected Japanese fishing villages on a big peninsula close to Ishinomaki, there were surprisingly many survivors. They were mostly elder people. “Education (& experience) is decisive for the functioning of early warning systems.” Kenichi Horiuchi, deputy head in reconstruction of the city of Ishinomaki
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Global Fire Department: Leadership development 2006!
The old & the new
• Improving failure analysis and failure culture
• Learning to distinguish between emergency operations and other daily routines
• New generations at work
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Professional background shapes perspectives!
• integrated safety culture & leveraging diversity for scanning weak signals?
• raising awareness of uneasy fits in safety (sub-)cultures
inapparent : apparent dangers
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How to align multicultural organizations?
• Broadening the concept of culture to diversity & inclusiveness
• Cultural self-awareness
• Competency development on the levels of individuals, groups, organization and boundary spanning
• Develop an inclusive safety culture
• Leverage diversity for increasing safety