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Errors and Mistakes in Social Practice
Abstract
Professionals prefer to think positively. Less commonly do they deal
systematically with errors & mistakes. Both concepts refer to
discrepancies between what is intended & what actually occurs, but
each represents a different logic of interpreting negatively charged
situations. Proposed is an approach to uncertainty management,
including institutional arrangements that have been developed by human
service professionals to deal constructively with errors &
mistakes. Also reviewed are their multiple positive functions as
natural experiments, research incentives, & precipitants of
administrative change. 1 Table. HA.
Journal
(Spring 1980)
vol4
no1
pages43-54
Categories
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Financial Management
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Managing
