EH&S Leadership At All Levels It Starts With You Workshop Pre-Reading The Fatal Flaw In Flight 51-L Contents Instructions 3 Study Questions 3 The Fatal Flaw In Flight 51-L 5 Challenger's final hours 6 The history of the flawed joint 7 Certified in spite of the flaws 8 Accepted as acceptable 9 The lesser of two evils 9 The problems grow worse 9 Anatomy of a tragedy 10 Why wasn't the design fixed? 11 Why wasn't erosion
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The Groupthink Theory “Researchers have studied the influence of group pressure on individual members” (Byars and Rue, 2007, 238). As defined by Byars and Rue “when group members lose their ability to think as individuals and conform at the expense of their good judgment, groupthink occurs. Members become unwilling to say anything against the group or any member, even if an action is wrong” (Byars and Rue, 2007, 238). “Keeping a group together under any circumstance is a goal in itself. Groups
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Risk Tolerance The amount of risk NASA tolerated with the Challenger launch is absurd. NASA acted as though it were a busing system going to and from space. This high tolerance towards risk may have been caused by NASA falling into an overconfidence psychological trap. An overconfidence psychological trap is the process of estimating an overly narrow range of possible values, caused by initial impressions or past events (Hammond, Keeney & Raiffa, 1999). Prior to the Challenger, NASA had been
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immediate reaction is ‘This marketing campaign is unethical.’” (Hamilton, J.A., 2009). 2. Watch the video on the 2003 Columbia Space Shuttle disaster on the textbook website: http://www.mhhe.com/business/management/videos/NBC/Flash/NBC_Columbia_Space_Shuttle_Disaster.html . [You may also wish to research the 2003 Columbia disaster and the 1986 Challenger disaster for a complete picture]. Then, answer the following question using the terminology and concepts from the course: What seems to be the major
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MK 620 Yafei Liu 11/16/2014 A Lesson from American Apparel On July 3, 2014, American Apparel, an American clothing brand posted an image of the 1986 space shuttle Challenger’s explosion on its Tumblr account with tags of “smoke” and “clouds”. The photo was supposed to be a celebratory post of the Independence Day, but it became a social media crisis of American Apparel since the image of the explosion was mistaken for fireworks by the one who edited and posted the image (Kleinberg, 2014)
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1. The decision makers from NASA and Morton Thiokol were under a litany of outside pressures to proceed with the launch. This particular launch had been delayed for over six months and rescheduled a handful of times. There was significant pressure placed upon the team by the U.S. government in order to compete with the space programs of rival nations. The longer the project was delayed the more expensive it became for the both the government and the private companies, resulting in intense economic
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Reagan ethically reaffirmed their confidence with a hopeful statement, “I've always had great faith in and respect for our space program. And what happened today does nothing to diminish it.” President Reagan proved to the people that one unexpected disaster does not make the space program less trustworthy or weak, but stronger and more determined. As for the crew, “They had a hunger to explore the universe and discover its truths. They wished to serve, and they did. They served all of us.” They certainly
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President Ronald Reagan in his mournful, yet inspiring speech, “Explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger Address to the Nation”, addresses the horrific tragedy of the Challenger Seven, while also motivating the future generations of America to take part in the ever growing space program. Reagan adopts a solemn tone in order to mourn the loss of the astronauts with his American viewers. Through the use of various rhetorical strategies, Reagan not only provides his condolences for the astronaut’s
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Emalee Foote Professor Francis Eng 105 09 February 16 Ronald Reagan and the Shuttle Challenger Crash On January 28, 1986, Ronald Reagan delivered a speech on the topic of the shuttle Challenger crash from the oval office in Washington D.C. In his speech, he discusses the events that took place and speaks to many about the tragedy. He addresses the children who watched it happen live, NASA workers, the families of the victims, and everyone else in the United States. He discusses what we will do next
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Mark Arcuri is a hard worker, energetic but lazy at times and a family man. He loves the outdoors and doesn’t worry about the things that he cannot control. An important part of Mark’s life was the Challenger spaceship explosion. This occured on January 28, 1986. This catastrophe resulted in all 7 of the crew members’ deaths. Many Americans were watching the TV, including Mark, just as the spaceship exploded and disintegrated into the air. When Mark heard about this he remembered he was in social
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