Analyzing Leadership and its Challenges at Sultan Qaboos Air Academy

This report analyzes the leadership challenges at Sultan Qaboos Air Academy in Oman, focusing on identifying leadership styles, challenges, and their impacts. It explores various leadership styles such as transactional, transformational, and laissez-faire, and examines challenges like ineffective managerial procedures, employee skill development, and team politics. The research employs a deductive approach with survey and observation methods to gather data from air academy personnel. The findings highlight the prevalence of autocratic and democratic leadership styles and the impact of these challenges on the academy. The report concludes with recommendations for mitigating these challenges through proactive leadership, delegation, and strategic decision-making, suggesting future research should incorporate implications and concepts from existing leaders.

Analyzing the leadership challenges
at Sultan Qaboos Air Academy
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Executive Summary
• The main aim of this research is to analyze the
challenges of leadership at Sultan Qaboos Air
Academy, Oman.
• This research also discusses about the crucial styles
of leadership.
• This research deals with the analyzing factors
affecting leadership in various institutions in the
country.

Table of Contents
• Introduction: Background of the Research
• Rationale of the Research
• Problem Statement
• Research Aim and Objectives
• Research Questions
• Research Structure
• Literature Review: Concept of Leadership
• Transactional leadership
• Transformational leadership
• Laissez-Faire Leadership
• Leadership Challenges
• Challenges in Sultan Qaboos Air Force Academy
• Relevant Activities required for resolving the Identified Challenges
• Research Methodology: Research Approach
• Research Design
• Research Methods
• Sampling Size, Technique, and Statistical Tools
• Analysis and Findings: Demographic Data Analysis
• Quantitative and Qualitative Data Analysis
• Conclusion and Future Work
• Reflections
• Bibliography

Introduction: Background of the Research
• There has been crucial analysis of the leadership styles
in institution for various purposes.
• This research deals with the analyzing factors affecting
leadership in various institutions in the country.
• The air academy has been suffering with various
problems including leadership and its styles.
• Therefore, the use of various theories and models
related to challenges in the leadership has been
discussed in the research.

Rationale of the Research
• This paper focuses on the challenges faced in the air
academy in Oman.
• The poor leadership style followed by the leader has
ignited retention policy for employees in the air
academy.
• The training provided in the air academy has been
depleted in the context of quality and performance.

Problem Statement
• There have been leadership issues and challenges in
the air academy of Sultan Qaboos.
• Therefore, this problem has creating various
problems in the market.
• Lack in proper leadership styles has created
differences in maintaining and monitoring employees
and candidates in the air academy.

Research Aim and Objectives
• To identify leadership styles used in the Sultan
Qaboos Air Academy
• To identify leadership challenges in the Sultan
Qaboos Air Academy
• To critically analyze the impact of these challenges in
the Sultan Qaboos Air Academy
• To recommend strategies for mitigating these
leadership challenges in the Sultan Qaboos Air
Academy

Research Questions
• Which leadership style is used in the Sultan Qaboos
Air Academy?
• What are the challenges in leadership in the Sultan
Qaboos Air Academy?
• How these leadership challenges have been affecting
the Sultan Qaboos Air Academy?
• What strategies can be taken for mitigating leadership
challenges in the Sultan Qaboos Air Academy?

Research Structure
• The first chapter describes about the basic introduction
about research topic.
• The second chapter focuses on the literature review of
the variables included in the research topic.
• The third chapter deals with methodology followed by
the research.
• The fourth chapter deals with the data findings and
analysis.
• Final chapter concludes all the finding and analysis of
the whole research.

Literature Review: Concept of Leadership
• In the modern leadership style of Oman, the use of Ibadhism
for religious leadership is still an acceptable ideology.
• In the country, the selection of the high influential people for
democratic purposes is normally done by tribal
representatives and priests who prefer merits as compared to
inheritance.
• The use of social representatives for the purpose of
recruitment or selection is a continuing profession in various
civil services and airline industries which in turn leads to a
leading practice in human resource management.

Transactional leadership
• This form of leadership is also known as the
managerial leadership whose main focus is on
organization, performance and supervision.
• In this case of the transactional leadership, the
promotion of compliance among the followers is
usually done by either rewarding or by punishing.
• The objectives of this type of leadership are to keep
constancy in the approaches.

Transformational leadership
• The transformational leadership is another style of
leadership ideas where leaders work with their
followers for the betterment of the organization they
are associated to.
• This involves inspiring the followers for accepting
their job roles, inspiring the leaders to undertake
responsibility and analyzing the strengths or
weakness of each of the followers to meet the needs
of the work.