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Apollo, Challenger, Columbia

By Tompkins, Phillip K.

Apollo, Challenger, Columbia

By Tompkins, Phillip K.

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Apollo, Challenger, Columbia: The Decline of the Space Program provides unparalleled longitudinal insight into the organizational successes and failures of NASA. The book treats NASA over its 45-year history from 1958 to 2003, concentrating on five "data points"

* 1967: when Tompkins first served as a Summer Faculty Consultant in Organizational Communication to legendary rocket scientist Wernher von Braun during the Apollo Program. * 1968: when he served in the same capacity to help reorganize NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. * 1986: when he investigated the communication failures that caused the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger. * 1987: when he researched NASA's highly successful Aviation Safety Reporting System. * 2003: when he interpreted the communication failures leading up to the catastrophic failure of the space shuttle Columbia. >In considering other organizations in trouble, Tompkins identifies ten "communication transgressions," one of which, for example, is "ignorantia affectata"--an affected or cultivated ignorance of organizational problems. In contrast to these failed organizations and their pathologies, Tompkins offers a sketch of two healthy organizations that live by "value logics"--applying ethical values in the organizational workplace. There are lessons to be learned from NASA's disasters. With all of the high-profile ethical lapses in U.S. corporations, Tompkins advocates individuals and organizations taking responsibility for their actions.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
316
Release Date:
2004-07-23
Publication Date:
2004-07-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0195330447
ISBN13:
9780195330441
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
460 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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