Values, Ergonomics and Risk Management in Aviation Business Strategy

by Ayse Kucuk Yilmaz, Triant G. Flouris

Overview

This book discusses the successful integration of values, ergonomy and risk management to achieve corporate strategic goals. Companies are starting to focus on risk management and corporate sustainability, but also value-based approaches in order to stay competitive. Although constantly emerging techniques are making this task easier, managing ergonomic based risks remain a challenge. The book largely focuses on values, ergonomy and risk management in the context of aviation business strategy. Offering insights into the principles of successful aviation business management using a value-based approach, it is a valuable resource for academics and postgraduate students as well as professionals in the aviation industry.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789811510052
Publisher:	Springer Nature Singapore
Publication date:	11/18/2019
Edition description:	1st ed. 2019
Pages:	219
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Ayse Kucuk Yilmaz (Ph.D. Anadolu University) is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics. (Previously a part of Anadolu University, The Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics became a part of the newly established Eskisehir Technical University by Law no. 7141 that was published in the Official Gazette dated May 18, 2018, and numbered 30425).

Dr. Kukuk Yilmaz’s areas of expertise are management & strategy. Her research interests include enterprise risk management, sustainability risk management, aviation management, international business, multi criteria problem solving, decision-making, ergonomics, quality and strategic management.

Dr. Kukuk Yilmaz is the Airport Business Manager of Hasan Polatkan Airport since Feb, 2015. She is also Vice Dean responsible for operational departments such as Airport,ATC, ATO and AMC. She has authored 11 books, 5 book chapters and has published numerous academic journal articles in both SCI and ESCI indexed journals. She serves as editor in peer-reviewed international journals. She is also a licensed aircraft maintenance technician.

Triant G. Flouris (Ph.D. University of South Carolina) has been the Provost at Hellenic American University since 2010. He has served in various faculty and administrative positions (graduate program director, department chair, as well as research institute director) in universities in New Zealand, the US and Canada and has extensive experience in strategic planning and higher education administration. He is the author of eight books, over two hundred refereed journal articles, book chapters, scholarly articles, and public reports. He is a certified professional pilot and flight instructor and holds concurrent appointments as a research associate at the Mineta TransportationInstitute, San Jose State University, California, as well as an instructor for the International Air Transport Association. His research interests include project management, sustainability risk management, aviation management, international aviation policy, and strategic management. He is a commercial pilot and certified flight and ground instructor with over 8,000 hours of total flight time.

Table of Contents

1. Organizational Values and Culture: The Management & Organization Psychology.- 2. Value-based Enterprise Risk Management: Ergonomics, Ethics and Organizational Structure Considered Approach.- 3. Situational Awareness in AViation Business: Multi-cultural Business Environment.- 4. Enterprise Risk Management in Aviation Management and Strategy.- 5. Decision Making in Aviation Management: Multi-criteria Problem Solving.- 6. An Innovative, Human Behavious and Social Psychology Based Approach to Risk Analysis Tools and Techniques: Strategic Risk Mapping.- 7. Crisis Management in Aviation Business and Strategy: Organizational Behaviour based Perspective.