TY  - JOUR
AB  - The commercial aviation industry is an extremely competitive, safetysensitive high technology service industry. Socio‐technical systems, employees and customers must be the arenas of an organization’s core competencies. The implications are vast and pervasive affecting no less than the organization’s structure, strategy, culture and numerous operational activities. In this article, select findings of a human resource management (HRM) audit are compared to the findings of a review of the literature on diversity, organization development (culture) and training and development. The audit, conducted by 13 executives from their respective organizations, contains extensive data on airlines from nine countries from around the globe. In this article we seek to extend the discussion of excellence in safety and customer service to applied systemic organizational HRM issues and critical success factors. Human resource management (HRM) expertise is required now, more than ever, to spearhead internal marketing strategies in order to gain employee commitment in order to foster excellence in safety and customer service.
VL  - 27
IS  - 10
SN  - 0140-9174
DO  - 10.1108/01409170410784301
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/01409170410784301
AU  - Appelbaum Steven H.
AU  - Fewster Brenda M.
PY  - 2004
Y1  - 2004/01/01
TI  - Safety and customer service: contemporary practices in diversity, organizational development and training and development in the global civil aviation industry
T2  - Management Research News
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 1
EP  - 26
Y2  - 2024/09/20
ER  -