Is Just Culture Compatible With Irish Defence Forces Leadership Doctrine?

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Title

Is Just Culture Compatible With Irish Defence Forces Leadership Doctrine?

Subject

Irish Defence Forces
Leadership
Leadership Doctrine
Just Culture
accountability

Description

This paper aims to answer the primary research question: Is just culture compatible with Defence Forces Leadership Doctrine (DFLD)? Current DFLD provides an organisational framework intended to embed the cultural values, attributes, skills, and actions that contribute to leadership development, throughout all Defence Forces (DF) services. Unique within DFLD, the Irish Air Corps (IAC) advocate the practice of ‘just culture’ which centres around principles designed to create an environment of trust and accountability. Subsequently, these contribute to organisational learning and improvement as a consequence of addressing safety related systems failures while adopting a culpability mindset. If DF strategic leadership intend to advocate and foster cultural change throughout the organisation there must first be an acknowledgement that change takes time. The DF faces two challenges in introducing cultural change, firstly identifying organisational barriers to change, secondly how to overcome them.
This paper argues that if the DF seeks to foster a culture that sets the conditions for honest disclosure it must embrace collective learning as a consequence of mistakes. Significantly,  research revealed that there is a desire among organisational leadership to address this cultural void through the introduction of a parallel reporting system which is voluntary, nonpunitive and protected throughout the DF. Essentially, the adoption of just culture can only be validated if there is organisational buy in which is dependent on a cycle of trust and its advocacy by leadership emanating from within leadership doctrine.

Creator

Farragher, David

Source

Journal Of Military History and Defence Studies; Vol. 4 No. 1 (2023): Journal of Military History and Defence Studies; 79-115
2712-0171

Publisher

Maynooth Academic Publishing

Date

2023-03-21

Rights

Copyright (c) 2023 Journal Of Military History and Defence Studies
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Format

application/pdf
application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document

Language

eng

Type

info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article

Identifier

Citation

David Farragher, Is Just Culture Compatible With Irish Defence Forces Leadership Doctrine?, Maynooth Academic Publishing, 2023, accessed November 5, 2024, https://igi.indrastra.com/items/show/2594

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