Aircraft Carrier Operations at Sea: The Challenges of High Reliability Performance

Abstract

When organizations operate technologies that are beneficial, costly and hazardous, they are pressed to achieve failure free operations. This is an extraordinary situation, one deemed impossible in contemporary organization theoretic terms. This project examines one type of such organization - aircraft carrier operations at sea - that demonstrate remarkable levels of operational reliability. The objective is to seek out the conditions that account for these very high levels of operational performance. This report includes the conceptual perspective defining and focusing the research problem, a discussion of methodological processes, and a review of preliminary findings. An appendix includes an annotated bibliography of project papers. Keywords: High reliability organizations, Aircraft carriers operations, Technology and Organization, Organization theory.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 29, 1988
Accession Number
ADA198692

Entities

People

  • Gene I. Rochlin
  • Karlene Roberts
  • Todd R. La Porte

Organizations

  • University of California, Berkeley

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircraft Carriers
  • Aircrafts
  • Business Administration
  • Flight Decks
  • Load Monitoring
  • Management Personnel
  • Military Organizations
  • Military Research
  • Navy
  • Organizational Structure
  • Personnel Management
  • Psychology
  • Radar
  • Reliability
  • Social Psychology
  • Students
  • Uss Carl Vinson

Readers

  • Business Analytics
  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.
  • Systems Analysis and Design