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Errors as a Means of Reducing Impulsive Food Choice

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Action errors, error management, and learning in organizations.

Michael Frese¹, Nina Keith

¹Business School, National University of Singapore, 119245 Singapore;

Annual Review of Psychology

|September 25, 2014

Summary

Organizations should move beyond just preventing errors. Effective error management, which addresses errors after they occur, is crucial for minimizing harm and maximizing benefits like learning and innovation.

Keywords:

error management errors innovation mistakes violations

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Area of Science:

Organizational Psychology
Risk Management
Cognitive Science

Background:

Organizations face inevitable errors, some with significant negative consequences.
Current strategies predominantly focus on error prevention.
Error prevention alone is insufficient for comprehensive error handling.

Purpose of the Study:

To review the concept of error management as a complement to error prevention.
To explore research on error management's impact on error-related processes.
To discuss empirical evidence and pathways for positive error management outcomes.

Main Methods:

Literature review of error management strategies and their effects.
Analysis of research on error detection and damage control.
Examination of empirical evidence on individual and organizational error management.

Main Results:

Error management effectively minimizes negative consequences and maximizes positive outcomes like learning and innovation.
Error management influences error detection and damage control processes.
Positive effects are mediated by emotional, motivational, cognitive, and behavioral pathways.

Conclusions:

Error prevention must be supplemented with robust error management strategies.
Acceptance of human error is a key factor for successful learning from mistakes.
Implementing error management fosters organizational learning and innovation.