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Aviation Disaster Primer: Psychologies Of Error, Ibpp Editor
Aviation Disaster Primer: Psychologies Of Error, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
This article describes common psychological phenomena that often mitigate against accurate induction and deduction of the causes of aviation disasters.
Trends. The Egyptair 990 Crash: A Misconception About Psychological Screening, Ibpp Editor
Trends. The Egyptair 990 Crash: A Misconception About Psychological Screening, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
The article discusses the common, publicly promulgated misconception about psychological screening of pilots and other aircrew members in the aftermath of the EgyptAir 990 crash.
Trends. The Crash Of Egyptair 990: Realities Of Psychological Screening, Ibpp Editor
Trends. The Crash Of Egyptair 990: Realities Of Psychological Screening, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
The article further discusses the crash of EgyptAir 990 and the lack of periodic, formal psychological screening by many commercial airlines of all pilots and other members of a flight crew.
Ibpp Research Associates: Space And Extreme Environments, M. Ephimia Morphew - Society For Human Performance In Extreme Environments
Ibpp Research Associates: Space And Extreme Environments, M. Ephimia Morphew - Society For Human Performance In Extreme Environments
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
Per M. Ephimia Morphew. President of the Society for Human Performance in Extreme Environments previously online at http://www.hpee.org, colleagues at the Institute of Biomedical Problems in Russia (IBMP) are engaged in an isolation experiment pertaining to space exploration that is two months underway and preliminary findings are reported [in the article entitled First Two Months of Simulated Isolation Passed.]
IBPP commentary includes a discussion of human factors and political psychology as parameters of space.
When Bad Leads To Good: Airplane Crashes And The Political Psychology Of Stress, Ibpp Editor
When Bad Leads To Good: Airplane Crashes And The Political Psychology Of Stress, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
This article begins a series on research presented at the 1999 Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association. The article suggests some of the complexities in the construct of stress and applies them to research on the psychological aftermath of surviving an airplane crash.
The Effectiveness Of An On-Line Graduate Engineering Management Course, Rosemarie Maffei Evans, Madison Daily, Susan L. Murray
The Effectiveness Of An On-Line Graduate Engineering Management Course, Rosemarie Maffei Evans, Madison Daily, Susan L. Murray
Engineering Management and Systems Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works
In the summer of 1997, the Engineering Management Department of the University of Missouri-Rolla's (UMR) began offering its first Internet-based graduate level course. This course, Advanced Production Management, was designed to utilize a combination of Internet-based tools, such as EMail and Chat rooms to create a alternative means for the delivery of course material. This paper will draw these following conclusions from more than a year of research, which included over 100 students in six different course offerings. First, the Internet-based students performed equally as well as the control group students. Second, students tend to have exaggerated time requirement expectations …
Aviation Security: The Human Element In Human Factors, Ibpp Editor
Aviation Security: The Human Element In Human Factors, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
This article describes aspects of social and political human functioning that are germane to security violations discovered by representatives of the Federal Aviation Agency (FAA) in tests at various United States (U.S.) airports. FAA reports on the violations were obtained by The New York Times through the U.S. Freedom of Information Act and discussed in the Times' January 11th Issue.
Management Of Change In The Irish Construction Industry, Louis Gunnigan
Management Of Change In The Irish Construction Industry, Louis Gunnigan
Masters
Ireland is changing and this change is nowhere more apparent than in the rapidly growing construction industry. The industry is being forced to change at an unprecedented pace. This thesis sets out to develop a framework on which construction organisations can approach and manage change.
It examines the issues that will cause change, reviews the available literature to find how change can be managed and controlled, and develops a model for guiding change programmes in the construction industry. The model is tested against three case studies, the first two of which are concerned with finding increases in efficiency and demonstrating …