Challenger: fine-tunning the odds until something breaks

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The Challenger disaster illustrates the effects of repeated successes, gradual acclimatization, and the differing responsibilities of engineers and managers. Past successes and acclimatization alter decision-makers' beliefs about probabilities of future success. Fine-tunning processes result from engineers' and managers' pursuing partially inconsistent goals while trying to learn from their experiences. Fine-tunning reduces probabilities of success, and it continues until a serious failure occurs. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Case studies, Equipment and supplies, Engineering, Crisis management, Challenger (Spacecraft)

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Breaking the silence: the moderating effects of self-monitoring in predicting speaking up in the workplace

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Employee communication about organizational issues in the telecommunications industry is discussed.

COMMUNICATION, Communications, Broadcasting and Telecommunications, Personnel administration, Human resource management, Telecommunications services industry, Telecommunications industry, Communications industry, Company personnel management

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Shades of silence: emerging themes and future directions for research on silence in organizations

Article Abstract:

The reasons that employees do not discuss organizational problems are provided.

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