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Errors in organizations: Opportunities for crisis management

In the traditional crisis management literature organizational errors are seen as something entirely negative, even though error-free organizations should be considered as a chimera (Clarke, 1999). At-tention to errors is an important characteristic of so called high reliability organizations (HRO). These organizations have a safety culture that function proactively and errors are understood as vi

Optical techniques for measurements of atmospheric trace gases

Differential optical absorption spectroscopy (DOAS) and differential absorption lidar (DIAL) have been used for measurement of atmospheric trace gases. A fully automated system for atmospheric pollution monitoring of a medium-sized city has been constructed, based on the DOAS technique. Detection of ammonia and aromatic hydrocarbons in the ultraviolet spectral region has been investigated and demo

Direct and inverse scattering from dispersive media

Direct and inverse scattering from dispersive media are studied in the time domain. The media are one-dimensional and homogeneous but can be impedance mismatched to the surrounding media. A time domain method is introduced where the reflection and transmission kernels are obtained from Volterra equations of the second kind. Numerical examples are given based upon both synthetic and measured data f

Promoting the best as an incentive : reply to Pluchino et al. on the Peter Principle

The Peter Principle states that employees tend to be promoted until they reach their level of incompetence. In a sophisticated simulation study, Pluchino et al (2010) confirmed a version of the principle. However, they also noted that their model has the counterintuitive consequence that “the best ways for improving the efficiency of a given organization are either to promote each time an agent at