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crew resource management

crew resource management noun: a process designed, particularly in time-critical situations, to empower everyone in a team, however junior, to efficiently call attention to an error or danger, give useful information, or propose a course of action, with the intent of pooling the team's knowledge and creativity to avoid or minimise any emergency and obtain the best practicable outcome.

Noun

crew resource management (uncountable)

  1. A process designed, particularly in time-critical situations, to empower everyone in a team, however junior, to efficiently call attention to an error or danger, give useful information, or propose a course of action, with the intent of pooling the team's knowledge and creativity to avoid or minimise any emergency and obtain the best practicable outcome.

Origin of crew resource management

Coined in 1979 by John Lauber, initially as "cockpit resource management", relating to those on the flight deck of an aircraft, then broadened to "crew resource management" to include the cabin crew, and later genericised to other industries, often with unaltered wording. More at Crew resource management.

Questions about crew resource management

What does crew resource management mean?
Crew resource management means a process designed, particularly in time-critical situations, to empower everyone in a team, however junior, to efficiently call attention to an error or danger, give useful information, or propose a course of action, with the intent of pooling the team's knowledge and creativity to avoid or minimise any emergency and obtain the best practicable outcome.
What part of speech is crew resource management?
Crew resource management is a noun.

Words near crew resource management in the dictionary

  1. crew member
  2. crew members
  3. crew neck
  4. crew necks
  5. crew over
  6. crew resource management
  7. crew sock
  8. crew socks
  9. crew up
  10. crew-cut
  11. crew-cutted

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