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Title:
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Apollo, Challenger, Columbia : the decline of the space program : a study in organizational communication /
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Authors:
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Phillip K. Tompkins, Author ;
Emily V. Tompkins, Author
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Material Type:
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book
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Publisher:
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Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2005
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ISBN / ISSN / EAN :
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978-0-19-533044-1
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Format:
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xxv, 288 p. / ill. map / 23 cm
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Bibliography note:
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Languages:
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English
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Class number:
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TL867
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Subjects:
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Astronautics--Accidents
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Challenger (Spacecraft)
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Challenger (Spacecraft)--Accidents
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Columbia (Spacecraft)
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Columbia (Spacecraft)--Accidents
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Communication in organizations--United States--Case studies
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Project Apollo (U.S.)
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Space vehicle accidents
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Space vehicle accidents--United States
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Description:
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The book is a compelling, richly detailed, longitudinal case study concentrating on processual changes in communication-as-organization. In this book, Tompkins introduces theory subtly, inserting it to explain details of the organization that would otherwise defy understanding. 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
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Contents note:
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1. The Columbia Accident 2. The Week Following: Debris, Data, and Fault Trees 3. Culture and Communication in NASA 4. Communication and Culture in the Marshall Space Flight Center 5. The Challenger Accident 6. The Mysteries of Columbia Continue 7. Reading the CAIB Report: Echoes of Challenger 8. The Challenger-Columbia Syndrome and the Decline of American Organizations and Institutions: 'Speaking Truth to Power' 9. Wrapping It Up
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Format :
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In print
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