Comparison of organisational cultures at two NPP maintenance units. When is maintenance work motivating and meaningful?

Teemu Reiman; Pia Oedewald; Carl Rollenhagen

doi:10.1007/978-0-85729-410-4_171

Comparison of organisational cultures at two NPP maintenance units. When is maintenance work motivating and meaningful?

Teemu Reiman, Pia Oedewald, Carl Rollenhagen

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland

Mälardalen University

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter or book article › Scientific › peer-review

Abstract

Maintenance of a nuclear power plant (NPP) is a complex activity characterised by many coupled subsystems, uncertainty in the data available to the workers, mediated interaction via various tools and potentially high hazards. The activities in maintenance organisations include preventive maintenance, planned outages, modifications and different kinds of fault repairs. Correct working of the machinery and technology is critical to both plant safety and efficiency. Thus, appropriate maintenance strategies, efficient procedures and skilful work are the key factors of reliability at NPPs. How an organisation can achieve this?

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management
Editors	Cornelia Spitzer, Ulrich Schmocker, Vinh N. Dang
Place of Publication	London
Publisher	Springer
Pages	1057-1063
ISBN (Electronic)	978-0-85729-410-4
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4471-1057-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-410-4_171
Publication status	Published - 2004
MoE publication type	A3 Part of a book or another research book

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Comparison of organisational cultures at two NPP maintenance units. When is maintenance work motivating and meaningful? / Reiman, Teemu; Oedewald, Pia; Rollenhagen, Carl.

Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management. ed. / Cornelia Spitzer; Ulrich Schmocker; Vinh N. Dang. London : Springer, 2004. p. 1057-1063.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter or book article › Scientific › peer-review