Core task modelling in cultural assessment: a case study in nuclear power plant maintenance

Importance of Workplace Relationships and Attitudes toward Organizational Change in Engineering Asset-Management Organizations

“…Given that the implementation of change in organisations requires the support of appropriate organisational culture, there has been some attempt to understand culture issues in asset management organisations (Murphy 2010;Oedewald & Reiman 2003: Reiman & Oedewald 2006. Asset management culture has now been identified as a significant organisational factor for improving organizational performance (Cooksey, Jeong & Chae 2011), including change management.…”

Performance-based usability evaluation of a safety information and alarm system

“…It was further assumed that, in response to the possibly contradictory constraints of the activity system, human operators must take into account and balance between critical functions when accomplishing these tasks. Balancing between the functions in accomplishing the three main tasks constitutes the core-task demands of the particular work (Klemola and Norros, 1997;Nuutinen and Norros, 2001;Reiman and Norros, 2002;Oedewald and Reiman, 2003;Norros and Klemola, 2005). These core-task demands were further used in developing indicators of process performance.…”

Competing values, tensions and trade-offs in management of nuclear power plants

“…Oedewald and Reiman [6] studied maintenance culture and maintenance core task in a Nordic nuclear power plant. They analysed how the interviewees perceive the current organisational practises identified the following, frequently addressed tensions:…”