AERO2409: Leadership, Management, and Decision-Making in Aviation

This report delves into the critical aspects of leadership and managerial decision-making within the engineering environment, specifically focusing on the aviation industry. The analysis begins by emphasizing the importance of leadership in achieving organizational goals, highlighting the need for effective strategies, communication, and a positive organizational culture. It explores various leadership styles and their impact on project efficiency, compliance with aviation regulations, and the fostering of teamwork and creativity. The report then transitions to the significance of managerial decision-making, particularly in a sensitive sector like aviation, where impulsive choices can be detrimental. It discusses the importance of experience, planning, and ethical considerations in decision-making, and reviews common strategies such as cost-benefit and "Plus-Minus-Interesting" methods. The report underscores the need for managers to possess ethical decision-making skills to successfully execute business plans and navigate the inherent risks associated with the aviation industry.

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Leadership
Engineering environments do not only require technical skills to run but also need
leadership and managerial skills. Leadership is very crucial for any organization to achieve its
targets and objectives. Leadership ensures that all the essential resources and critical activities
for our organization, Visit Airline, are running smoothly so that organizational goals are
achieved effectively and efficiently. Leadership in the organization focuses on the human
resource asset of the organization and how the organization can develop self-motivated and
highly skilled employees that will contribute to the good performance of the organization. The
organization will always strive to have good leadership that will formulate and successfully
implement right business strategies that will ensure there is excellent communication across all
levels of leadership. Several leadership styles can be used to run an organization, and each
method is determined by the top leadership of the organization, (Blanchard, 2018). The main aim
of good leadership for our organization is to help it run critical projects efficiently. The
administration should ensure that the organization adheres to both the local and international
aviation laws and regulations as well as run the organization within the ethical standards in the
aviation industry.
Leadership should initiate and maintain good organizational culture and values in the
organization. Teamwork and creativity are the cultural values that will help our organization to
achieve its objectives. The corporate culture and values determine the behavioral skills and
productivity of the human resource in the organization, (Rosenbach, 2018). The Aviation
Industry is dynamic, and the leadership of our organization should be flexible and quick in
responding to the challenges that our organization will face while in operation. The Visit Airline
organization aims to start with flight 1o local flights in Australia and later expand its services to

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major destinations in the world. To achieve this, leadership in the organization should be able to
propel the whole organization to words the realization of this goal. All the employees must be
motivated to work collectively as a team just as the leadership is working together.
Managerial Decision Making
Managerial skills play an essential role in any organization and primarily managerial
decision-making skills. Managerial skills are useful in our organization in coordinating the
critical activities in our aviation organization and help in harnessing the individual potential of
all the employees towards the realization of organizational goals and objectives. Managers are
good leaders and should perfect their decision-making skills since a sensitive sector, such as the
aviation industry does not allow any room for poor decision making. Managerial decision
making is learnt through experience and proper planning as well as excellent communication
within the organization that prevents the occurrence of chaos and confusion within the
organization structure, (Ferrell and Fraedrich, 2015). Good personal attributes and
understanding of the decision-making process, as well as the adherence of the code of conduct,
helps managers to make appropriate decisions in various situations.
Managerial decision making is essential to our organization since a poor decision can
bring down the organization to its knees at any moment. Impulsive choices made out of
emotional stress can lead to the organization to waste a lot of human resources, time, and other
vital resources, making it impossible to achieve organizational goals and targets. The public is
becoming very concerned about the corporate responsibility of organizations and the managers in
our organization should not only focus on making a profit but establish a good social corporate
responsibility reputation. Managers are given the authority to make critical decisions on behalf of

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the organization because they are believed to be well trained for that role, and they should
always take responsibility for these decisions.
There are several decision-making strategies that managers can use to ensure that they
always make the appropriate decisions. The aviation sector is competitive with large multi-
billion international airlines dominating them, and they strive through making the right decisions
and grabbing any opportunity in the event their competitor makes a poor decision. The most
common managerial decision-making strategies are cost-benefit and "Plus-Minus-Interesting"
methods, (Janssen, van der Voort, and Wahyudi, 2017, pp. 339). These two strategies are based
on performing a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the data at hand to weigh the advantages
and disadvantages of every possible alternative. Such an analysis enables managers to
understand the situation at hand and make the most appropriate decision. Managers in our
organization should be able to demonstrate ethical decision-making skills that will facilitate the
successful execution of our business plan. The operation of this aviation company will always be
associated with risks that require a comprehensive understanding of decision-making skills.

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