Human Fallibility: The Ambiguity of Errors for Work and Learning

by Johannes Bauer and Christian Harteis

Book Overview

A curious ambiguity surrounds errors in professional working contexts: they must be avoided in case they lead to adverse (and potentially disastrous) results, yet they also hold the key to improving our knowledge and procedures. In a further irony, it seems that a prerequisite for circumventing errors is our remaining open to their potential occurrence and learning from them when they do happen. This volume, the first to integrate interdisciplinary...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9048139406
• ISBN13: 9789048139408
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"