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IMPACT OF EXTERNAL INFLUENCES TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF

activities [1–3]. Strengths and weaknesses of the national culture, organizational culture and sub-cultures in Bangladesh are needed to be clearly understood and properly treated toward developing a strong culture for safety in the country. Prior to engaging efforts for improving and shaping existing culture to any intended extent, it is very important to identify the factors of national culture and sub-cultures that can impact the organization’s culture and culture for safety [4].

Culture for safety does not mean to create a new culture instead, focuses on alignment of the various components and values lying at different layers of a culture toward continuously improving safety performances at nuclear and other facilities. Safety performances have to be recognized and grown from within the existing culture of a country or an organization and inherent safety values of human beings must be aligned to grow culture for safety in a society or group [5–6]. Therefore, real challenges are comprehended toward developing and maintaining a strong safety culture, which is a continuous process and requires a systematic, sustainable, long term commitment to continuously improve safety culture in all organizations working with nuclear technology in Bangladesh. Moreover, dynamics of organizational culture are constantly created by mutual interactions and shaped by leadership behaviour, and a set of structures, routines, rules, and norms that guide and constrain behaviour [7–8].

It is believed that the decision-making processes, crucial for ensuring nuclear safety and security can be enhanced through developing culture for safety and security within the organizations. It is, therefore, essential for BAEC as a TSO to maintain and enhance values through development of culture for safety and security within the organization and capacity building to support the regulatory body. For Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission, as the pioneer and largest nuclear organization and technical and scientific support provider; and for Bangladesh as a new-comer country, the scientific and research basis for understanding organizational culture, culture for safety and security, how organizational culture influences culture for safety and security, how both organizational culture and culture for safety and security impact performance in nuclear facilities in Bangladesh are, therefore, extremely needed. Furthermore, understanding of external and internal influences on organizational culture and factors that can influence culture for safety and security are crucial toward growing and sustaining a healthy culture for nuclear safety and security in nuclear organizations of Bangladesh.

2. METHODOLOGY

The study deploys survey method, document reviews, and focused group interview to collect data and validate the proposed conceptual model. An anonymous survey is being carried out among the employees of BAEC. Management commitment, safety standards efficacy, work environment, continuous learning, safety accountability, safety communication, knowledge opportunism frame, knowledge integration frame, policy knowledge frame and safety assimilation are the organizational and human measurement factors.

The outcomes of surveys, designed to be carried among the workforce of nuclear organizations, including TSO and the regulator in Bangladesh, will be analysed using the proposed model, which will be detailed in the future studies. Validation and confirmation of the model will be carried out after processing of data. Firstly, the organizational factors and human factors will be evaluated through processing the survey information. Other factors, including external factors that can influence culture and organizational culture will be determined and analysed using the model. In addition, organizational absorptive frames will also be introduced in the model that will help enhance the understanding of parameters related to and needed for improvement of organizational factors and human factors in the organization’s culture for safety and security in Bangladesh.

3. CONCLUSION

The study is being carried out within the scope of the research contract, entitled ‘Factors that can influence culture for safety, organizational culture and human performance at nuclear and other facilities in Bangladesh’ under the IAEA CRP-I22004, Coordinated Research Project on Organizational Culture Basis for Successful Performance in Nuclear Power Plants. The study bears a great deal of academic interest and significant managerial implications. A comprehensive study is, therefore, needed to be carried out. The outcomes of the study, as it progresses, will be continued to publish in journals in the near future. It is strongly believed that the study findings reveal ways to address challenges faced by TSO in developing culture for safety that impacts on the decision-making processes of both organizations and create pathways for working together toward enhancing nuclear safety and security capabilities.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The contributions of the esteemed experts Ms Monika Haage, Dr. Sonja Haber and Prof. Frank W.

Guldenmund towards enhancing knowledge and understanding through interactions and communications at professional and personal levels are gratefully acknowledged. The study is being carried out within the scope of the research contract under the IAEA CRP-I22004, Coordinated Research Project on Organizational Culture Basis for Successful Performance in Nuclear Power Plants.

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