Journal article
Do Local Trainee Pilots of UAE Suffer from More Stress than their Counterpart International Students: Case of an UAE Airline
American Journal of Educational Science, Vol.1(1), pp.1-6
2015
Abstract
Many previous studies have analysed the level of task and relationship orientation of different cultures and their affect on stress (Sikander, Mujtaba and Akhtar 2012). Although Stress is quite normal at workplace and influences the level of performance of individuals, however, it becomes much more important when sensitive professions like Flying have to be analysed. Cultural differences of students perhaps could influence the stress perception. There is dearth of studies in this area. The sample for the study included students undergoing aviation courses as sponsored and self-paid and to analyse the various relationships. It was expected that the difference in results will be a contribution to the literature and will also provide useful input to design the courses for aviation students belonging to different cultures. This study focused on the differences of 40 Emiratis and 20 non-Emiratis (expat) aviation students. It appears that the expat students focused more on task orientation then relationships. They also had higher level of stress scores from work overload. In this paper, literature on the country of survey, stress influence on flying and workload of pilots and recommendations for subsequent research is included.
Details
- Title
- Do Local Trainee Pilots of UAE Suffer from More Stress than their Counterpart International Students: Case of an UAE Airline
- Authors/Creators
- Dr Arif Sikander - Murdoch University, Murdoch Business School
- Publication Details
- American Journal of Educational Science, Vol.1(1), pp.1-6
- Publisher
- Public Science Framework
- Identifiers
- 991005692865807891
- Copyright
- @ 2015 The Authors
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Murdoch Business School
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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