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标题：Scientists and Engineers¡¯ Occupational Community and Organizations: Their Partial Inclusion and Role Conflict in Organization
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作者：Chae In-Seok
期刊名称：Japan Labor Review
印刷版ISSN：1348-9364
出版年度：2008
卷号：5
期号：3
页码：83-83
出版社：Japan Institute for Labour Policy and Training
摘要：Turning to Robert Lund, the supervising engineer, [Jerald] Mason [then senior vice president of Morton Thiokol, Inc.] directed him to ¡°take off your engineering hat and put on your management hat.¡± The earlier no-launch recommendation was reversed. Roger Boisjoly was deeply upset by this reversal of the engineers¡¯ recommendation¡¡.¡ªhe was an engineer. It was his professional engineering judgment that the O-rings were not trustworthy. He also had a professional obligation to protect the health and safety of the public, and he evidently believed that this obligation extended to the astronauts. Now his professional judgment was being overridden [emphasis in original]. (C. E. Harris, Jr., M. S. Pritchard and M. J. Rabins, Engineering Ethics: Concepts and Cases, 5) Group leader Yoshida then feared that this unfolding situation could lead to a crisis that would threaten the survival of the company [Mitsubishi Motors], and resolved that ¡°in order to protect the company from the Ministry of Transport¡¯s audits, I would persist with the fabrication in my position as a manager in the Quality Assurance Department¡± [emphasis added]. (T. Okuyama, The Power of Internal Whistle-blowing: What Does the Whistleblower Protection Act Protect?, 24) The next day, just 73 seconds into the launch, the Challenger exploded, taking the lives of the six astronauts and schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe [emphasis in original]. (Engineering Ethics: Concepts and Cases, 6)