Positive deviance refers to voluntary departures from organisational norms that yield desirable outcomes. Within organisational behaviour, this concept encompasses a range of actions—from constructive ...

When the sociologist Diane Vaughan came up with the term “the normalization of deviance,” she was referring to NASA administrators’ disregard of the flaw that caused the Challenger space shuttle to ...

Normalization of deviance is the process by which individuals and organizations gradually accept substandard practices, rationalizing them until they become the new, dangerous norm and increase the ...

The horrifying experience of Child Q, a 15-year-old girl who was subjected to a strip search by police officers in her school in Hackney, London, is a harrowing example of how British society ...