Organizational communication imperatives : lessons of the space program / Phillip K Tompkins

By: Material type: TextPublication details: Los Angeles : Roxbury Pub. Co., ©1993.Description: ix, 238 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0935732403: 9780935732405
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • TL862.G4 .T66
Contents:
The Challenger accident -- The imperative of studying organizational communication -- The Marshall Space Center and the Apollo program -- Some problems of communication at the Marshall Center -- Staff and board briefing -- Reorganizing the Marshall Center -- A reading of the Rogers Commission Report -- Feynman's two experiments -- Huntsville revisited -- The Lucas era at MSFC -- Organizational forgetting -- Death and rebirth -- J.R. Thompson's response -- The meaning and future of the space program.
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Integrating his experience with NASA with more recently gathered data, the author provides an account of the rise, fall and resurgence of that American institution over a 25-year period.

The Challenger accident --
The imperative of studying organizational communication --
The Marshall Space Center and the Apollo program --
Some problems of communication at the Marshall Center --
Staff and board briefing --
Reorganizing the Marshall Center --
A reading of the Rogers Commission Report --
Feynman's two experiments --
Huntsville revisited --
The Lucas era at MSFC --
Organizational forgetting --
Death and rebirth --
J.R. Thompson's response --
The meaning and future of the space program.

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