Submitting Campus
Worldwide
Department
Management & Technology
Document Type
Article
Publication/Presentation Date
12-1-2013
Abstract/Description
The paper presents a case study of a leadership development workshop facilitated by two American educators for a group of Indian aviation executives. The Indian aviation environment is quite complex and at times chaotic. The leadership development workshop was conducted as a sense-making exercise using Snowden’s Cynevin Framework. Pre-seminar and post-seminar survey comparisons indicated that the executives experienced significant shifts in attitude during the three-day workshop. Pre-seminar attitudes demonstrated little differentiation between sense-making and leadership action within complex and chaotic contexts. Post-seminar attitudes demonstrated a broader contextual understanding of sense-making and leadership in complex and chaotic environments. The executives left the workshop with a more nuanced understanding of contextually appropriate ways to make sense of and lead in the complex Indian aviation environment.
Publication Title
The Exchange
Publisher
The Academic Forum
Scholarly Commons Citation
Rietsema, K. W. & Watkins, D. V. (2013). Indian aviation leadership engagement: Case study in leadership development using the Cynefin framework. The Exchange, 2(2), December 2013. Available at SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2395466
