Why commercial pilots voluntarily report self-inflicted incidents

  • Voluntary incident reports by commercial pilots provide essential data for airline efforts in \(\textit {learning from incidents}\) (LFI). Because LFI is frequently limited by pilots not reporting incidents voluntarily, we interviewed seven commercial aviation safety experts in a focus group to derive factors influencing the voluntary reporting behavior of pilots’ self-inflicted incidents. As a result, we derived 36 factors and integrated them into a motivational framework by van den Broeck et al. (2019). Pilots pursue various goals when voluntarily reporting incidents, such as enabling safety-related change or organizational learning. This behavior is influenced by personal antecedents, such as shame, and contextual antecedents, such as feedback. Our work expands the understanding of motivational aspects of voluntary incident reporting and discusses practical interrelations.

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Author:Sebastian SieberichsORCiDGND, Annette KlugeORCiDGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:hbz:294-87816
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1027/2192-0923/a000216
Parent Title (English):Aviation psychology and applied human factors
Subtitle (English):a qualitative study with aviation safety experts
Publisher:Hogrefe
Place of publication:Göttingen
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2022/03/26
Date of first Publication:2021/11/18
Publishing Institution:Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Universitätsbibliothek
Tag:goals; learning from incidents; motivation; self-inflicted incidents; voluntary reporting behavior
Volume:11
Issue:2
First Page:98
Last Page:111
Institutes/Facilities:Arbeitseinheit Arbeits-, Organisations- und Wirtschaftspsychologie
open_access (DINI-Set):open_access
faculties:Fakultät für Psychologie
Licence (English):License LogoCreative Commons - CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 - Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International