CHAPTER 8

How Do You Create a Great Risk Culture?

As someone who is trained as a scientist and then trained in finance, I am probably the last person who one would think of to write a chapter on organizational culture. My idea of the only time one should concern themselves with the human resources department is when they are handing you a specimen bottle for mandatory testing. I am not even sure I know how to define culture. One group of organizational experts seems to think it is what someone does when no one is watching. Another group of organizational experts thinks it is what one does when everyone is watching. I am not really quite sure which group of organizational experts is correct, but one thing I do know is that when I am conducting ...

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