The effect of five personality traits on crew resource management practices: A research based on Turkish civil aviation cabin services

This study examines the effect of basic personality traits on Crew Resource Management practices; with the title of a research on Turkish civilian private airline cabin crews, it brings to the agenda the results of a survey study of the effect of personality traits of cabin crew members working in our countrys' private airline airlines on attitudes towards Cabin Crew Crew Resource Management practices in terms of ensuring flight safety. With this approach, based on the cabin crew trainings in the airline companies of our country, within the scope of by analyzing cabin crew personality traits such as extroversion, emotional instability, agreeableness, openness to experience and responsibility and the answers given to the expressions of flight safety within the scope of cabin crew resource management, power distance, stress management, communication and compliance with the rules is being examined. Nowadays, carrying out civil aviation activities with on acceptable error rate is one of the main objectives. However, despite the existence of technological developments, plane crashes are still encountered. In the researches carried out in order to reach the solution of the problems created by this negativity, the presence of the human factor in the causes of the accidents is observed as the first priority. With this research, it is aimed to contribute to the solution of the problems arising in the communication proses between cockpit crew and cabin crew members by examining in detail.