High Reliability Management: Operating on the Edge Contributor(s): Roe, Emery (Author), Schulman, Paul R. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0804758824 ISBN-13: 9780804758826 Publisher: Stanford Business Books OUR PRICE: $152.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2008 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Science | Energy - Business & Economics | Management - General - Social Science | Sociology - General |
Dewey: 333.793 |
LCCN: 2008001988 |
Series: High Reliability and Crisis Management |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6" W x 9" (1.05 lbs) 272 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: High Reliability Management is the first book to provide an in-depth and timely look at the people who manage for high reliability-professionals who run critical systems in electricity, water, and transportation. The book tells of the extraordinary challenges that these "reliability professionals" face in ensuring that society's basic systems operate continuously and safely, even in the wake of errors in policy and technical design. |