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“robert l helmreich”

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  • Culture at Work in Aviation and Medicine

    National, Organizational and Professional Influences

    by Robert L. Helmreich, Ashleigh C. Merritt ...
    Culture forms a complex framework of national, organizational and professional attitudes and values within which groups and individuals function. The reality and strength of culture become salient when we work within a new group and interact with people who have well-established norms and values. In this book the authors report the results of their ongoing exploration of the influences of culture ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Crew Resource Management

    Edited by Barbara G. Kanki, Robert L. Helmreich, Jose Anca ...
    Crew (or Cockpit) Resource Management training originated from a NASA workshop in 1979 that focused on improving air safety. The NASA research at that time found the primary cause of the majority of aviation accidents to be human error, and further showed the main problems to be failures of interpersonal communication, leadership, and decision making in the cockpit. By the time of publication of ... Read more

    $94.39 CAD

  • Masculinity and Femininity

    Their Psychological Dimensions, Correlates, and Antecedents

    by Janet T. Spence, Robert L. Helmreich ...
    Many societies assign sharply distinguished roles to men and women. Personality differences, as well as physical differences, between men and women are used to justify these different sex roles, and women are seen as more emotionally and interpersonally sensitive than men, while men are said to be more competent, achievement oriented, and assertive than women. A widely held view is that not only ... Read more

    $36.29 CAD

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    by Sidney Dekker ...
    When faced with a ’human error’ problem, you may be tempted to ask 'Why didn’t these people watch out better?' Or, 'How can I get my people more engaged in safety?' You might think you can solve your safety problems by telling your people to be more careful, by reprimanding the miscreants, by issuing a new rule or procedure and demanding compliance. These are all expressions of 'The Bad Apple ... Read more

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  • Leading Teams

    Setting the Stage for Great Performances

    by J. Richard Hackman ...
    Richard Hackman, one of the world's leading experts on group and organizational behavior, argues that teams perform at their best when leaders create conditions that allow them to manage themselves effectively.Leading Teams is not about subscribing to a specific formula or leadership style. Rather, it is about applying a concise set of guiding principles to each unique group situation—and doing so ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Managing the Risks of Organizational Accidents

    by James Reason ...
    Major accidents are rare events due to the many barriers, safeguards and defences developed by modern technologies. But they continue to happen with saddening regularity and their human and financial consequences are all too often unacceptably catastrophic. One of the greatest challenges we face is to develop more effective ways of both understanding and limiting their occurrence. This lucid book ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Beyond the Checklist

    What Else Health Care Can Learn from Aviation Teamwork and Safety

    by Suzanne Gordon, Patrick Mendenhall, Bonnie Blair O'Connor ...
    Series series The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
    The U.S. healthcare system is now spending many millions of dollars to improve "patient safety" and "inter-professional practice." Nevertheless, an estimated 100,000 patients still succumb to preventable medical errors or infections every year. How can health care providers reduce the terrible financial and human toll of medical errors and injuries that harm rather than heal? Beyond the Checklist ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD

  • Human Factors in Aviation

    Edited by Eduardo Salas, Dan Maurino ...
    Fully updated and expanded, the second edition of Human Factors in Aviation serves the needs of the widespread aviation community - students, engineers, scientists, pilots, managers and government personnel. Offering a comprehensive overview the volume covers topics such as pilot performance, human factors in aircraft design, vehicles and systems and NextGen issues. The need for an up-to-date, ... Read more

    $94.39 CAD

  • The Coupling of Safety and Security

    Exploring Interrelations in Theory and Practice

    Edited by Corinne Bieder, Kenneth Pettersen Gould ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This open access book explores the synergies and tensions between safety and security management from a variety of perspectives and by combining input from numerous disciplines. It defines the concepts of safety and security, and discusses the methodological, organizational and institutional implications that accompany approaching them as separate entities and combining them, respectively.The book ... Read more

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  • Exploring Resilience

    A Scientific Journey from Practice to Theory

    Edited by Siri Wiig, Babette Fahlbruch ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Resilience has become an important topic on the safety research agenda and in organizational practice. Most empirical work on resilience has been descriptive, identifying characteristics of work and organizing activity which allow organizations to cope with unexpected situations. Fewer studies have developed testable models and theories that can be used to support interventions aiming to increase ... Read more

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  • Behind Human Error

    by Sidney Dekker, Richard Cook, Leila Johannesen, Nadine Sarter, David Woods ...
    Human error is cited over and over as a cause of incidents and accidents. The result is a widespread perception of a 'human error problem', and solutions are thought to lie in changing the people or their role in the system. For example, we should reduce the human role with more automation, or regiment human behavior by stricter monitoring, rules or procedures. But in practice, things have proved ... Read more

    $90.68 CAD

  • Competency-Based Education in Aviation

    Exploring Alternate Training Pathways

    by Suzanne K. Kearns, Timothy J. Mavin, Steven Hodge ...
    Whether a trainee is studying air traffic control, piloting, maintenance engineering, or cabin crew, they must complete a set number of training 'hours' before being licensed or certified. The aviation industry is moving away from an hours-based to a competency-based training system. Within this approach, training is complete when a learner can demonstrate competent performance. Training based on ... Read more

    $71.44 CAD