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Fraher, Amy, Branicki, Layla and Grint, Keith (2017) Mindfulness in action : discovering how Navy SEALs build capacity for mindfulness in high-reliability organizations. Academy of Management Discoveries, 3 (3). p. 239. doi:10.5465/amd.2014.0146 ISSN 2168-1007.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/amd.2014.0146
Abstract
This study of US Navy Sea Air and Land (SEALs) commandos contributes to the research investigating mindfulness in High-Reliability Organizations (HROs) by identifying micro- and macro-level influences that allow SEALs to build capacity for mindful behaviors and flexible responses despite the complexity of their missions, unpredictability of their operating environments, and inherent danger of their work. Although HRO literature defines five hallmarks of mindfulness, how frontline people working in HROs create a state of collective mindfulness is not often investigated. This study addresses this gap through an empirical exploration of ‘mindfulness in action’ as a way to link individual mindfulness traits and organizational mindfulness influences, providing a more nuanced conceptualization of one hallmark of mindfulness—a preoccupation with failure—and offering a new sixth factor that allows HROs to perform in a near error-free manner: comfort with uncertainty and chaos. These discoveries open up new
avenues of HRO research for a wide range of reliability-seeking
organizations.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology V Naval Science > V Naval Science (General) |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Industrial Relations & Organisational Behaviour Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Marines -- Psychological aspects, Mindfulness (Psychology), Military art and science | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Academy of Management Discoveries | ||||||||
Publisher: | Academy of Management | ||||||||
ISSN: | 2168-1007 | ||||||||
Official Date: | September 2017 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 3 | ||||||||
Number: | 3 | ||||||||
Page Range: | p. 239 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.5465/amd.2014.0146 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 20 December 2016 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 29 December 2017 |
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