Case Study: NASA: Organizational Analysis
I am currently part of the Organization Team. As a team we have been reviewing the Harvard Case Study on the contributing factors which lead to the Columbia Disaster NASA’s. Today our team analyzed the organizational problems. Here are a few of our observations:
• One of the main issues contributing to NASA’s overall poor organization its culture, a culture that starts with us, the citizens of the United States. We are a culture that has high demands and expectations. We want to see results, while at the same time we want someone else to find ways around the obstacles. If a short cut will equal faster results then we not only support them but expect them. This mind set has lead to an organization where an emphasis on results has lead to the neglection of using resources to properly analyze and reconstructs organizational structure. This unfortunately has minimized production as it has lead to insanely costly set backs and inefficient spending.
• NASA has amazing talent and incredible brains working in its organization but because of its complicated bureaucratic and unclear structure its most valuable resource are not able to contribute their full knowledge and capabilities. Vital information and insights that those at the ground level have are not able to effectively get to upper management where the major decisions are taking place.
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About Me
- Nathan
- I am new to the blogging world, this blog was actually set up for a class assignment. For now my blogs will be on Organizational Communications and Group Dynamics but we will see where it goes from there...
3 comments:
Hey Nathan,
Its true that our society has gone down hill due to the fact that we are always looking for the easy way out. I feel that one of the main reasons why such a disaster occurred is the selfish factor. As we read, there wasn't any love in amongst the workers, no one wanted to take responsibility, and it resulted in miscommunication in the bureucratic organizational structure and a breakdown of the system. Changes need to be made and it can begin if we as a people start thinking more about our fellow men.
Justin Pitcher
It's interesting to read your comments about not using the resources that they have. As I was reading I thought that one of the greatest resources that they didn't use effectively was teamwork. It is so important to use everyone and communicate with everyone so that the right things can be done and the people at the bottom can be heard by the people above.
I find what you say about our society oh so true. Now I'm American and am thankful to be one but it's quite pathetic when our country works harder to be lazier. After all that is what your talking about. Shortcuts and what not. For example, I live in Sunrise Village. The outward appearace is about a 6 on a 10 scale so it's livable. But I have found that almost everything that has been done to it meaning like the electircity and gas and what not is utter crap to the fullest. We just had an electrician who takes great pride in his work come over and check out a outlet of ours that has been giving us trouble. As he fixed it be began to laugh at what kind of a job the person who put it in did. then went around and fixed almost every outlet and heater system in our house becuase everything has done halfwitted. This is just pure laziness and I wag my finger at it good sir.
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