Culture at Work in Aviation and Medicine: National, Organizational and Professional Influences,9780754619048

Culture at Work in Aviation and Medicine: National, Organizational and Professional Influences

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ISBN13: 9780754619048
ISBN10: 0754619044
Format: Nonspecific Binding
Pub. Date: 2001-10-28
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary

In this book the authors report the results of their ongoing exploration of the influences of culture in two professions aviation and medicine. Within these two environments, they show the effects of professional, national and organizational cultures on individual attitudes, values and team interactions.

Author Biography

Professor Robert L. Helmreich is director of the University of Texas Aerospace Crew Research Project at Austin, Texas Dr Ashleigh C. Merritt earned her PhD with the University of Texas at Austin and also served as a postdoctoral fellow at the Aerospace Crew Research Project

Table of Contents

List of Boxes
viii
List of Figures
x
List of Tables
xii
Foreword xiii
Preface xxv
Notes on the Contributors xxvii
Groups and Cultures in Aviation and Medicine
1(26)
Professional Culture
27(26)
National Culture
53(54)
Organizational Culture
107(26)
Error Management: a Cultural Universal in Aviation and Medicine
133(42)
Implementing Error Management: Trust, Data and Interventions
175(26)
When Cultures Collide
201(24)
Cultural Psychology: a Synthesis
225(8)
Appendix A Methodological Issues in Cross-cultural Research 233(12)
Appendix B Data 245(6)
Appendix C Research Instruments 251(23)
References 274(15)
Index 289

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