Assignment:
Complete the Columbia final Mission multi-media case in the group that you are assigned. When your discussion is complete, describe in this thread what the experience was like.
Complete Exercise of the Learning Team skills text with a team of your choice. What are the trust levels within the team and between the team members and the team leader? What can be done to improve the levels of trust within the team and with the leadership?
Introduction
Columbia's Final Mission, a multimedia case study about the 2003 Columbia space shuttle disaster, is designed to help you understand how failures evolve, how to prevent failures in organizations, and how to effectively manage risk in a complex organization. This case puts you in the shoes of one of six key NASA managers or engineers involved in the Columbia Space Shuttle's last mission. It will take you through the first eight days of the mission as if you worked at NASA at the time. The case will prepare you for a key Mission Management Team meeting that took place on Flight Day 8
Class the first step is to review the case study. There are 6 managers and each of you has been sent an email with your manager name and password that you will be assigned- " check your email". Below are the questions that each of you will be required to answer once you are done with your case study. Please submit in word or PDF file to the drop box for team stimulation case 2. This is an individual task so you are not in teams for this assignment. This assignment counts for 50 points. If no assignment is submitted there will be a grade of zero issued. There are no extensions on this assignment. I think you will enjoy this assignment.
List the manager name you have been assigned on your cover page. The below questions are the requirements for the Columbia Mission Case Study: A couple of sentences is fine for the below questions.
1. How would you characterize the culture of NASA? What are its strengths and weaknesses?
2. How has NASA treated foam strikes historically? Why has NASA treated foam strikes in this manner?
3. How did the history of the Space shuttle Program shape people's behavior during the first 8 days of the mission?
4. How would you characterize NASA's response to the foam strike, in comparison with its response to the Apollo 13 incident? How does the Columbia mission compare to the Challenger accident in 1986?
5. What differences did you perceive in the behavior of managers versus engineers?
6. Putting yourself in the shoes of the manager or engineer whose actions you have followed in the multi-media case, consider the following questions:
Columbia Mission
• What prior assumptions and beliefs shaped the way that you thought and behaved during the Columbia mission?
• What pressures affected your behavior? Where did these pressures originate?
• In what ways did the cultures impact your actions?
• If you were in that person's shoes during the Columbia mission, would you have behaved differently? Why or why not?