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The Effects of the Commercial Aircraft Pilot's Leadership and Self-Efficacy to their Safety Behaviors

상업항공기 조종사의 리더십 및 자기효능감이 안전행동에 미치는 영향

  • 이종성 (국토교통부 항공자격과) ;
  • 김기웅 (한국항공대학교 경영학과) ;
  • 박성식 (인천국제공항공사 마케팅본부 해외사업처) ;
  • 강우정 (한국교통대학교 항공운항학과)
  • Received : 2014.02.14
  • Accepted : 2014.03.19
  • Published : 2014.03.31
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Abstract

Due to the recent aircraft accidents both in Ethiopian airline and Malaysian airline, almost all the media are focusing the importance of the airline safety. Especially, media's eyes and ears are interested in the reasons why Malaysia airline's missing presumed as by either terrorist attack or pilot's mistake. Safety Behaviors of pilot are viewed as the most important human factor issues among researchers. This is because, if it were the case of a commercial airline, pilot's safety behavior would be directly related to the lives of couple of hundreds passengers. This paper considers the antecedents of this safety behaviors as pilot's leadership, pilot's leadership and self-efficacy. This paper has tried to find out which human factors of a pilot would have significant impact on their safety behaviors. According to the empirical research result from SEM (Structural Equation Model), it was found out both the leadership and self-efficacy of a pilot had direct impact on their safety behaviors through safety motivation. Thus it could be concluded that flight crew must follow the instruction of a pilot who had the authority of the flight operation. The managerial implication are discussed in the conclusion part of this paper. As an implication, this paper concluded that it would be necessary to do further research on pilot's leadership and self-efficacy.

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