Leadership from the Right Seat
(2024) FLYL01 20241School of Aviation
- Abstract (Swedish)
- The purpose of the study was to gain a better understanding of informal leadership on the flight deck and how leadership can be effectively practiced by a first officer from the right seat, with the intention to strengthen team performance. The research question tried to answer if informal leadership is present on the flight deck and what factors contribute to the first officer’s ability to influence others. A qualitative method in form of Semi-Structured Interviews was used to collect the data and all participants selected were active first officers working for an airline in a multi-crew environment. A thematic analysis resulted in six main themes and sixteen subthemes. The main themes created was informal leadership on the flight deck,... (More)
- The purpose of the study was to gain a better understanding of informal leadership on the flight deck and how leadership can be effectively practiced by a first officer from the right seat, with the intention to strengthen team performance. The research question tried to answer if informal leadership is present on the flight deck and what factors contribute to the first officer’s ability to influence others. A qualitative method in form of Semi-Structured Interviews was used to collect the data and all participants selected were active first officers working for an airline in a multi-crew environment. A thematic analysis resulted in six main themes and sixteen subthemes. The main themes created was informal leadership on the flight deck, personality traits, emotional intelligence, influence tactics, create a shared mental model and leadership from the right seat continent on situational factors. The results indicate that a first officer exert leadership from the right seat in daily operations and factors contributing to the ability to influence other crew members emerged from the data analysis. The findings in this study contribute to the under-researched area of informal leadership and are adding an alternative perspective on leadership to the field of human factors in aviation. (Less)
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- author
- Riesbeck, Christopher LU
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- course
- FLYL01 20241
- year
- 2024
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- FLYL01
- language
- English
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@misc{9158159, abstract = {{The purpose of the study was to gain a better understanding of informal leadership on the flight deck and how leadership can be effectively practiced by a first officer from the right seat, with the intention to strengthen team performance. The research question tried to answer if informal leadership is present on the flight deck and what factors contribute to the first officer’s ability to influence others. A qualitative method in form of Semi-Structured Interviews was used to collect the data and all participants selected were active first officers working for an airline in a multi-crew environment. A thematic analysis resulted in six main themes and sixteen subthemes. The main themes created was informal leadership on the flight deck, personality traits, emotional intelligence, influence tactics, create a shared mental model and leadership from the right seat continent on situational factors. The results indicate that a first officer exert leadership from the right seat in daily operations and factors contributing to the ability to influence other crew members emerged from the data analysis. The findings in this study contribute to the under-researched area of informal leadership and are adding an alternative perspective on leadership to the field of human factors in aviation.}}, author = {{Riesbeck, Christopher}}, language = {{eng}}, note = {{Student Paper}}, title = {{Leadership from the Right Seat}}, year = {{2024}}, }