{"product_id":"k-phillip-tompkins-apollo-challenger-columbia-9780195330441","title":"Apollo, Challenger, Columbia","description":"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\" \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e* 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. \u0026gt;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.","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53768490582358,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/k-phillip-tompkins-apollo-challenger-columbia-9780195330441","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}