Whereas leadership research once primarily focused on the positive aspects of leadership, or the effective behaviours that leaders show, more contemporary research looks into the more dysfunctional tendencies leaders might display. Leadership derailment has been a much discussed issue in recent years, particularly given its negative role in limiting the extent to which individuals may make the ...

UK depression prevalence is increasing. In this study we appraised the relationships between psychological factors of derailment, self-criticism, self-reassurance and depression, to identify individual differences within general population indicating those at higher risk. Participants completed self-report measures regarding these constructs. Relationships were assessed using correlation path a...

With the increasing demands for railway transportation, networks have expanded, leading to higher operating frequencies and speeds. However, this has also, in turn, increased technical complexity of transportation systems. Derailment accidents, which occur frequently complex outcomes, are primary concerns such Particularly, derailments cause significant damage adjacent areas, their severity com...

Railroads play a key role in the transportation of hazardous materials in North America. Rail transport differs from highway transport in several aspects, an important one being that rail transport involves trains in which many railcars carrying hazardous materials travel together. By contrast to truck accidents, it is possible that a train accident may involve multiple hazardous materials cars...

We attempt to make sense of ongoing gender disparities in the upper ranks of organizations by examining gender bias in leaders’ assessments of managers’ derailment potential. In a large managerial sample (Study 1:N 12,500), we found that ineffective interpersonal behaviors were slightly less frequent among female managers but slightly more damaging to women than men when present. Evidence of bi...

Event trees are a popular technique for modelling accidents in system safety analyses. Bayesian networks are a probabilistic modelling technique representing influences between uncertain variables. Although popular in expert systems, Bayesian networks are not used widely for safety. Using a train derailment case study, we show how an event tree can be viewed as a Bayesian network, making it cle...

Encephaloceles involving only the herniated fourth ventricle are exceedingly rare. We report a case of such a cranial malformation and review the literature regarding these malformations and their potential embryological derailment.

Implementation of highway-rail level crossing warning systems, educational programs and research on crossings have all contributed to a steady reduction in the risk of level crossings to North American highway users over the past several decades. Much less attention has been given to understanding the effect of level crossings on train safety and risk. Incidents at highway-rail level crossings ...