Risky Rewards: How Company Bonuses Affect Safety

by Andrew Hopkins and Sarah Maslen

Financial incentives have long been used to try to influence professional values and practices. Recent events including the global financial crisis and the BP Texas City refinery disaster have been linked to such incentives, with commentators calling for a critical look at these systems given the catastrophic outcomes. Risky Rewards engages with this debate, particularly in the context of the present and potential role of incentives to manage major...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472449843
• ISBN13: 9781472449849
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"