Before the space shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986, NASA was aware of the problems that led to the catastrophe. However, because previous shuttle missions had lifted off without negative ...
"Why don't they realize that listing such a large quantity will look suspicious?"Seeing mass reselling of limited-edition items, one might have such a question.In the first article, I discussed how ...
The "normalization of deviance" is a dangerous phenomenon in aviation where individuals gradually accept and adopt substandard practices and corner-cutting until they become the accepted norm, ...
The shortcut has been in our psyche since most of us can remember. It often is a deviation from the conventional as a means to get somewhere or do something to save time. Time is precious, and ...
To some extent, many organizations, if not all, suffer from some form of performance deviation. This can manifest itself in any goal or standard against which organizations may measure themselves.
Thomas Schares, MD, MBA, an anesthesiologist with Somnia Anesthesia who serves as chief of anesthesiology for Desert Regional Medical Center in Palm Springs, Calif., discusses the phenomenon known as ...
Food Safety News publisher Bill Marler wrote something that stuck with me more than the case counts did. He pointed out that the FDA had flagged this exact risk before, at the same corporate family, ...
BALTIMORE, Md. – By their very nature, firefighters are deviants – but in a good way. So it’s almost natural there’s a “normalization of deviance” in the fire service. Lt. John Dixon, a fire ...
“When the sociologist Diane Vaughan came up with the term ‘the normalization of deviance,’ she was referring to NASA administrators’ disregard of the flaw that caused the Challenger space shuttle to ...
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