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Culture at Work in Aviation and Medicine: National, Organizational and Professional Influences by Helmreich & Merritt

Culture at Work in Aviation and Medicine: National, Organizational and Professional Influences by Helmreich & Merritt



Book: Culture at Work in Aviation and Medicine: National, Organizational and Professional Influences

Author: Robert L. Helmreich, Ashleigh C. Merritt

Teaser: Culture forms a complex framework of national, organizational, and professional attitudes and values within which groups and individuals function. In this book the authors explore the influences of culture in two professions, aviation and medicine. Their focus is on commercial airline pilots and operating room teams. Within these two environments they show the effect of professional, national and organizational cultures of individual attitudes and values and team interaction.