Risks in Production and the Management of Labour

The history of the risk management profession shows increasing specialization within disciplines. In organizations this specialization is often institutionalized in different (sub)departments each one taking into account different types of risk. As a result the interrelations between these risks are neglected and therewith the question arises who will manage the specialists. Further, an inventory of these specializations shows that theory formulation and empirical research regarding the relationship between risks, the organization of production and the management of labour is underdeveloped. This paper presents a theoretical and empirical perspective which could serve as a starting point for research in this domain of risk management. * Groningen University, Faculty of Management and Organization, P.O. Box 800, 9700 AV Groningen, the Netherlands. E-mail: [email protected]. This paper was presented at the WESWA conference in Enschede, the Netherlands, November 18th 1994.