RISK CASE STUDY – ASSIGNEMENT 2 August 3‚ 20111 THE SPACE SHUTTLE CHALLENGER DISASTER Risk Management Plan 1. Risk management plan summarizes risk management approach‚ list methodologies and processes‚ defines everyone’s role – definition of risk management plan. NASA was using for the most part qualitative risk assessment process. Launch of the shuttle was allowed as long as aggregate risk remained acceptable. Quantitive method was applied for risk assessment because if the complex
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Introduction For this essay I will be explaining what I might do to encourage team performance by using Katzenbach and Smith’s Article as a scaled directive/guideline. The discipline of teams has been useful to show how to encourage team performance and this I will explain I will explain in the first part of this essay. Main Body According to Katzenbach and Smith‚ there is an importance to distinguish between Teams and Groups. Why? Because it is believed that Teams are different from Groups
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year. Also‚ the space shuttle mission scheduled before the Challenger had been delayed over and over; a record number of times. The next mission after the Challenger involved a probe being sent into space in order to evaluate Haley’s Comet. If the Challenger and subsequently the next mission were not executed in a timely manner then a doppelganger probe from Russia would beat the U.S. probe to Haley’s Comet. Pressure to launch the challenger‚ as soon as possible‚ could have also come from President
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1. The Earth is really a water planet; what percentage of Earth’s surface is covered by water? a.71% 2. Who is considered to be the "father of physical oceanography" because of publication of information from ship’s logs in the book "The Physical Geography of the Seas"? b.Matthew Maury 3. Scientists know that the outer core of the Earth is liquid because S waves have not survived travel through the Earth’s interior. True 4. The Pacific Ring of Fire refers to the: a. circle of violent
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exploration without technology? Soon I will answer that question‚ but for now let’s see where we are. The Aqualung is a device that started the line of deep sea equipment. Next was the Jim Suit. For this reason‚ the Deepsea Challenger. The Aqualung‚ Jim Suit‚ and Deepsea Challenger are all portions of technology that have contributed to deep sea exploration. First and foremost‚ In the 1940’s one of the first underwater devices was invented‚ the Aqualung. This idea was created by an underwater explorer
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Members of the board are 50 year old Caucasian males. According to Murphy (2015)‚ homogeneity is linked to the concept of "groupthink." Groupthink refers to "the mode of thinking that persons engage in when concurrence-seeking becomes so dominant in a cohesive in-group that it tends to override realistic appraisal of the alternative course of action" (Howard‚ 2011). This issue is evident
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Space shuttle Challenger disaster that happened in January of 1986. There were issues with parts and conflicts with decision making that violated the Code of Ethics and 7 people died because of it. On January 28th 1986 NASA was launching the Space Shuttle named Challenger and mission 51L a routine mission to carry cargo and satellites for scientific research but because of poor weather and because of the failure of some O-rings to seal tight‚ some combustion gas leaked and the Challenger in sense blew
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show that the Chevy Camaro is faster than the Dodge challenger on race tracks‚ Second the Camaro is a better car to drive around daily than the Challenger and my Final claim is that the Chevy Camaro is a cheaper to buy and maintain car than the Challenger. The purpose of this argumentized essay is to show the advantages and disadvantages of the Camaro vs the challenger. The first claim is that the Chevy Camaro is faster than the Dodge Challenger in drag strip racing and road course racing. The figure
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GROUP PROCESS IN THE CHALLENGER LAUNCH DECISION: ANALYSIS: NASA was created with the intent to establish military culture‚ US dominance over USSR. Morton Thiokol‚ Inc.‚ an aerospace company‚ manufactured the solid propellant rocket motors manufactured the booster rockets SRB used to launch the Challenger Shuttle. Morton Thiokol called for a teleconference‚ fortnight before the launch had been scheduled to discuss the O ring problem. The Challenger launch was disaster due to various reasons:
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