Aviation Psychology has been at the basis of Organizational Psychology in at least three domains: selection and assessment, safety and ergonomics, and crew resource management or team work. Students are made familiar with aviation practices to discover how findings in aviation psychology have affected management practices, especially in high-risk industries. The diverse topics found in aviation psychology today will be centered around the theme of safety.
The literature in this course is a combination of overview articles and in-depth studies, providing the tools to understand related literature on the course topics and encourage further reading.
Course Objectives
To become familiar with the aviation industry and common aviation practices.
To understand the main concepts of selection and assessment, accident analysis and ergonomics, and crew resource management or team work, and to understand how all these topics relate to safety management.
To have a basic understanding of accident analysis and how to apply the main concepts of aviation psychology to general management practices.