Error Management Climate: A Literature Review and Prospects

Yin Kui, Sun Jianmin, Chen Leni

Foreign Economics & Management Vol. 38, Issue 02, pp. 75 - 87 (2016)  DOI:10.16538/j.cnki.fem.2016.02.006

Abstract

In the context of dynamic and complex external environment and human bounded rationality,it is difficult for individuals to avoid errors through the limited knowledge and ability. Errors are inevitable,so how to deal with errors becomes a practical problem every organization is confronted with. Error management has a positive view of error and becomes an important supplement of organization error prevention strategy. After clarifying the concepts of error,error management,error management climate and so on,this paper conducts a systematic review of error management climate research from the perspectives of variable measurement,antecedents and consequences. Finally,through the aspects of the uniqueness of concept,localization measurement,diversity of research method,etc,it discusses directions in future research of error management climate.

Keywords

error management; error management climate; error orientation; organizational learning