Article ID: 0170716a
Weick (1987) discusses three factors that support high reliability organizations: (1) requisite variety, (2) characteristics of reliability, and (3) enactment. While standing on the premise that there is a limitation to deal with complex systems, Weick (1987) suggests the possibility that individuals or organizations could overcome it and that organizational culture weaved in stories is important. Another characteristic is that Weick (1987) repeatedly mentions variety throughout the article. In research of high reliability organizations, a framework is later proposed by Weick, Sutcliffe, and Obstfeld (1999) and Weick and Sutcliffe (2001) and the concept of mindfulness is presented, it is considered that variety mentioned by Weick (1987) will be the keyword to understand mindfulness.
