| This study offers initial evidence that responses of employees of a risk-adverse, reliability-seeking organization are similar to the responses of employees of high reliability organizations regarding perceptions of risk and organizational response to risk. Employee responses of an international architecture firm were examined for equivalence with employee responses of two known high reliability organizations (Barrett, Novak, Venette, & Shumate, 2006; Novak, 2006) using inferential confidence interval analysis (Tryon, 2001). Results show similar responses from employees of all three organizations. These findings have implications for advancing high reliability theory into the mainstream of organizations and for future use of the HRO Perception Scale by reliability-enhancing organizations interested in improving employee risk avoidance perceptions and organizational mindfulness. |
