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Workplace Communication Essay

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U01a1 Workplace Communication

On January 28, 1986, the whole country watched as the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded, killing everyone on board. As with other major disasters in this country, you can ask any person where they were and each one can account for that moment in time, reliving it like it was yesterday. While everyone knows what happened, it was never made entirely clear why this tragedy happened and how bad the breakdown in communication was behind it. Just as the memory of that disaster was fading away, another disaster threw NASA into the spot light again, when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated upon reentry into the earth’s atmosphere on February 1, 2003 (Snarski, 2007). Yet again, a breakdown in …show more content…

I believe that if engineers were adamant about their findings and their concern for the flight, the Flight Center would have taken them seriously and delayed the flight until the engineers could properly study the effects of temperatures on the o-rings. It seemed to be the same sort of issue with the Space Shuttle Columbia, where the individuals involved in testing and ensuring a safe take-off and landing, with all aspects of the Space Shuttle in best possible working order were not communicating effectively. Because there was not proper testing and incomplete information on the foam insulation, the shuttle was pushed to launching, resulting in the disaster. I believe the single most important aspect of both disasters was the importance of funding to the NASA program, and the appearance of the United States to be a forerunner in Space travel. If there was not such intense pressure on NASA to perform and maintain its advancement in the Space Program there is a high probability that the lives that were lost on both Space Shuttles could have been saved. As for a similar instance in my workplace, it would have to be the issues I had with one particular co-worker. I was a new employee and my preceptor was a seasoned nurse that had worked at this particular hospital for more than 20 years. Although I was new to this hospital, I was not a new nurse and was not ignorant

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