Assignment:
Human/Machine Interface Systems Application
HMI Systems (HMI Syst)
" Wir gehen!" ("We're going!") - KLM Captain Jacob Veldhuyzen van Zanten
Details:
Format: Your audience for this paper is practicing managers in your industry.
The paper should use A.P.A. (American Psychological Association) style and be approximately 2,000 words in length. Must include abstract and reference pages and in-text citation!
Utilizing the resources of the World Wide Web and University Library databases Scholarly Journals complete Masters-level research into the antecedent events and final details of the March 27, 1977 crash of KLM 4805 and Pan Am 1736 at Tenerife in the Canary Islands.
Consider this horrific crash to be a metaphor for leadership in the turbulent modern economic marketplace.
Briefly examine at least eight impediments that hindered the decision-making of those directly involved in the crash.
List and prioritize the actions the pilots of both aircraft should have taken to avoid the crash and loss of life.
Explain how these proposed actions might be translated into the daily actions of a successful corporate leader.
Include appropriate lessons that might be learned relative to the effective management of technology and how those lessons should be applied to modern-day organizations.