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PRONUNCIATION OF BLAME CULTURE

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BLAME CULTURE

noun
adjective
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adverb
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preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Blame culture is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES BLAME CULTURE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Blame

Blame is the act of censuring, holding responsible, making negative statements about an individual or group that their action or actions are socially or morally irresponsible, the opposite of praise. When someone is morally responsible for doing something wrong their action is blameworthy. By contrast, when someone is morally responsible for doing something right, we may say that his or her action is praiseworthy. There are other senses of praise and blame that are not ethically relevant. One may praise someone's good dress sense, and blame the weather for a crop failure.

Definition of blame culture in the English dictionary

The definition of blame culture in the dictionary is the tendency to look for one person or organization that can be held responsible for a bad state of affairs, an accident, etc.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BLAME CULTURE

blam
blamable
blamably
blame
blameable
blameableness
blameably
blamed
blameful
blamefully
blamefulness
blameless
blamelessly
blamelessness
blamer
blamestorm
blameworthiness
blameworthy

WORDS THAT END LIKE BLAME CULTURE

adventure
agriculture
apiculture
aquaculture
cell culture
club culture
corporate culture
culture
gun culture
horticulture
mariculture
permaculture
popular culture
sericulture
subculture
tissue culture
turkey vulture
viniculture
viticulture
vulture
youth culture

Synonyms and antonyms of blame culture in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «blame culture» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BLAME CULTURE

Find out the translation of blame culture to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of blame culture from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «blame culture» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

怪文化
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

cultura de la culpa
570 millions of speakers

English

blame culture
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

दोष संस्कृति
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ثقافة اللوم
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

вина культура
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

cultura da culpa
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সংস্কৃতি দোষারোপ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

culture du blâme
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Menyalahkan budaya
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Schuld Kultur
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

非難の文化
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

비난 문화
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Nyalahke budaya
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

đổ lỗi cho văn hóa
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

குற்றம்சார் கலாச்சாரம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

दोष संस्कृती
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Suç kültürü
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

cultura del biasimo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

kultura wina
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

вина культура
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

cultură vina
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κατηγορούν τον πολιτισμό
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

blameer kultuur
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

skulden kultur
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

skylden kultur
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of blame culture

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BLAME CULTURE»

The term «blame culture» is normally little used and occupies the 134.753 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BLAME CULTURE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about blame culture

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BLAME CULTURE»

Discover the use of blame culture in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to blame culture and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Ending the Blame Culture
This book is about mistakes and what we can learn from them.
Michael Pearn, Chris Mulrooney, Tim Payne, 1998
2
The Blame Machine: Why Human Error Causes Accidents
The book also describes the existence of a 'blame culture' in many organisations, which focuses on individual human error whilst ignoring the system failures that caused it.
Robert B. Whittingham, 2004
3
Organizational Culture and Leadership
Some organizations develop a “blame culture,” which implies that whenever something goes wrong, someone to blame is found and that person's career is damaged. One dramatic example was revealed in a cultural analysis of Amoco some ...
Edgar H. Schein, 2010
4
America's Blame Culture: Pointing Fingers and Shunning ...
"America's Blame Culture addresses our country's tort system and our over-reliance on litigation to address accidents.
Terence J. Centner, 2008
5
The Blame Game: How the Hidden Rules of Credit and Blame ...
Reveals how claiming credit and placing blame on others damages careers and business results, outlines eleven personality types that are prone to credit and blame problems, and shows how to protect against the blame game.
Ben Dattner, 2012
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Clinical Risk Management: An Introductory Text for Mental ...
'The effects of this (blame) culture appear to be counterproductive, leading to defensive practice, and undermining both professional morale and recruitment into the profession.'14 Clinicians may think they are in the vicious circle outlined in ...
Tom Flewett, 2010
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The Blame Game: Spin, Bureaucracy, and Self-Preservation in ...
Type the term or its variants such as “blame culture” and “teflon politics” into a search engine and you will get tens of millions of hits. This book aims to describe, dissect, and explain the blame game, showing how blame avoidance shapes ...
Christopher Hood, 2010
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Clinical Responsibility
These complex areas of accountability will be explored in detail later. In recent years, I have heard that some Trusts advocate a 'no blame' culture. When something has gone wrong the individuals concerned will not carry any blame. Whilst to ...
Jane Lynch, 2009
9
Safety Management: A Qualitative Systems Approach
The desirability of a just culture is not disputed here, but the feasibility of moving directly from a blame culture to a just culture seems overly optimistic. Until it is clearly demonstrated that a just culture exists, and until employees trust their ...
John Davies, Alastair Ross, Brendan Wallace, 2003
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An Examination of the Impact of Accountability and Blame ...
This is in contrast to an unfair, illegitimate environment driven by a culture of blame. Within a supportive environment, police are more likely to be motivated by accuracy than self-preservation.
Sara Waring, Laurence Alison, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BLAME CULTURE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term blame culture is used in the context of the following news items.
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Chief Charumbira tears into civic society groups
“Let us not blame culture for this bad practice. Those people we read about in the newspapers are the criminals who should take the blame,” he ... «NewsDay, Jul 15»
2
The Story Behind One of the UK's Best Places to Work
We have a no-blame culture which I believe encourages my team to experiment, push the boundaries and achieve their best possible work. «ABCN's Officing Today, Jul 15»
3
Letter from Scotland
But the population is growing, and growing older, the treatments are becoming more sophisticated and more expensive, and the blame culture ... «The Edinburgh Reporter, Jul 15»
4
Report: Bullying and 'blame culture' prevalent across ambulance trust
WORKFORCE: Bullying is prevalent across the London Ambulance Service and the trust has a 'blame culture' in which bullies are perceived to ... «Health Service Journal, Jul 15»
5
Security Red Tape and Corruption at Airports
Odika said that Nigeria is known to have blame culture, saying that everybody points a finger at FAAN, being the owners of the airport, or they ... «THISDAY Live, Jul 15»
6
HSJ Live 03.07.2015: Specialised drug and treatment decisions …
Meanwhile, an independent review found that bullying is prevalent across the London Ambulance Service and the trust has a “blame culture” in ... «Health Service Journal, Jul 15»
7
Stressed, angry and demonised: council staff in austerity Britain
One social work practice manager, who has been signed off work with stress, criticised the blame culture. A sheltered scheme manager ... «The Guardian, Jun 15»
8
A Cautionary Tale
... Commission published a damning inspection visit report that revealed vast problems from basic standards of care to a bullying blame culture, ... «Huffington Post UK, Jun 15»
9
How to keep your team on track
Viewing teams in this way allows a move away from a blame culture where individuals or pairs might be singled out as 'the problem'. «Public Finance, Jun 15»
10
The blame game. What doctors can learn from pilots…
There's one very large difference; the airline industry today operates a 'just culture', a 'no blame culture'; is this the case in medicine? This was ... «Slugger O'Toole, Jun 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Blame culture [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/blame-culture>. May 2024 ».
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