Implementation of Safety Management Systems in the Aviation Industry. From the viewpoint of the Management of Change.

The objective of this study is to examine changes in safety management practices in the aviation system from the viewpoint of the management of change in order to determine if the application of a change management process would be beneficial for the implementation of the changes in aviation organizations. A quantitative research with a survey was conducted in connection to this paper. The survey contained 24 questions regarding the changes to safety management practices in aviation. The survey was sent to targeted relevant participants in 600 aviation organizations and 190 responses were received. Foundation of the survey was the hypothesis that the application of a change management process would be beneficial to a successful implementation of a Safety Management System in aviation organizations, and the research questions of how successful the implementation of Safety Management Systems in aviation organizations has been and what influence it will have on the implementation of the systems if a change management process is put in place before the system is implemented. The main conclusions from the research data supports the hypothesis but it became apparent during the research work that deeper studies would be interesting and without doubt beneficial for an implementation process of changes and for aviation management in the organizational setting.

Author dc:creator

• Guðjón Atlason 1964-

Contributors dc:contributor

• Háskóli Íslands

• Viðskiptafræði
• Breytingastjórnun
• Öryggiskerfi
• Flugiðnaður

Language dc:language.iso

en

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/1946/29331

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:skemman.is:1946/29331