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  • Essay / Human Factors in Aviation Maintenance - 2472

    They are often referred to as “the way we do things around here”. These practices follow unwritten rules or behaviors, which usually deviate from the required rules or instructions (Addendum/Human Factors, 2011, p. 14-25). According to Beber (2010), they can be imposed by peer pressure from your colleagues and by force of habit after working in the workplace for a long time. Certain rules and procedures are designed and tested and must be applied and followed rigorously for a reason. Standards are generally developed to solve problems whose solutions are ambiguous. Ambiguous situations can lead AMTs to use the behavior of others as a frame of reference around which to construct their own reactions. Some norms are actually dangerous in that they often harm group productivity. New workers can often identify such norms rather than long-tenured workers because they are new to the workplace (Gasset,