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Situational Leadership in Air Traffic ControlIn high-risk environments such as air traffic control, leadership on different levels plays a certain role in establishing, promoting, and maintaining a good safety culture. The current study aimed to investigate how leadership styles, leadership style adaptability, and over and under task leadership behavior differed across situations, operative conditions, leadership structures, and working tasks in an air traffic control setting. Study locations were two air traffic control centers in Sweden with different operational conditions and leadership structures, and an administrative air traffic management unit. Leadership was measured with a questionnaire based on Leader Effectiveness and Adaptability Description (LEAD; Blanchard, Zigarmi & Zigarmi, 2003; Hersey & Blanchard, 1988). The results showed that the situation had strong impact on the leadership in which the leadership behavior was more relationship oriented in Success and Group situations than in Hardship and Individual situations. The leadership adaptability was further superior in Success and Individual situations compared with Hardship and Group situations. Operational conditions, leadership structures and working tasks were, on the other hand, not associated with leadership behavior.
Document ID
20070038366
Acquisition Source
Goddard Space Flight Center
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
Authors
Arvidsson, Marcus
(Lund Univ. Sweden)
Johansson, Curt R.
(Lund Univ. Sweden)
Ek, Asa
(Lund Univ. Sweden)
Akselsson, Roland
(Lund Univ. Sweden)
Date Acquired
August 24, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 2007
Publication Information
Publication: Journal of Air Transportation, Volume 12, No. 1
Subject Category
Air Transportation And Safety
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Public Use Permitted.
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