Browsing by Author "Otwane, Rasmus Amoni"

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    Flight Safety Change Management Strategies and Performance of Selected Airlines in Kenya
    (Kenyatta University, 2025-06) Otwane, Rasmus Amoni
    The airline industry contributes immensely to the Kenyan economy but performed dismally from 2016 to 2022 as compared to the Ethiopian airline industry. In 2022, Kenya Airways handled 2.7 million passenger traffic as compared to Ethiopia Airlines handling 11.3 million passengers. It is therefore imperative to determine the specific factors affecting airline performance amidst emerging safety situations. The study sought to examine flight safety change management strategies’ effect on performance of selected airlines in Kenya. Specifically, safety management system, safety culture, and industry partnerships effect on performance of airlines. Resource Based View, Balanced Score Card and Contingency theories anchored the study while descriptive research design was applied. Target population was 33 airlines and proportionate stratified purposive sampling technique was used with a sample size of 7 airlines. Fifty-seven respondents filled the semi-structured questionnaires for primary data collection while a document review tool assisted to collect secondary data. Pilot study involved 8 respondents from Safari Link Airlines ascertaining the questionnaires appropriateness via content and construct validity while its reliability proven by 0.779 Cronbach’s Alpha test. Descriptive and inferential statistics were employed to analyze data. The results indicated that safety management system significantly affected airline performance with strong contribution from safety policies, safety risk management and safety awareness. Industry partnerships significantly affected airline performance with strong contribution from joint safety training, resource sharing and code-share agreements. Safety culture’s effect was insignificant though contributions of safety reporting, standard operating procedures compliance and management’s commitment to safety had positive contributions. The study concluded that safety management system was the most significant predictor of performance hence, airlines need to strengthen frameworks for hazard identification and risk management to reduce prevalence of accidents. The study concluded that industry partnerships were moderately significant to improving performance through the sharing of best practices and resources for efficient flight operations and improved job satisfaction. The study also concluded that though safety culture had no direct significance to airline performance, safety culture has to be combined with other safety strategies than applied alone for positive effect on airline performance. This study recommends airlines to develop and continuously update their safety management system to ensure consistency and full compliance with both local and international aviation safety standards and regulatory requirements in proactively managing emerging safety concerns. It also recommends airlines to actively pursue and expand industry partnerships with both domestic and international partners in improving operational efficiency without incurring the full costs of independent expansion. Finally, the study recommends airlines and industry regulatory bodies to freely provide more secondary data to compliment the primary data for eliminating bias and comprehensive analysis of findings
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    Flight Safety Strategy as a Driver of Airline Performance: The Effects of Industry Partnerships on Kenyan Airlines
    (International Academic Journal of Human Resource and Business Administration, 2025-04) Otwane, Rasmus Amoni; Waithaka, Paul
    The airline industry contributes immensely to the Kenyan economy but performed dismally from 2016 to 2022 as compared to other regional airlines. Circumstances related to flight safety resulted to this dismal performance. The study sought to examine effects of industry partnerships on performance of airlines in Kenya. Specifically, code-share agreements, resource sharing, and joint safety training effect on performance of airlines. Resource Based View, Balanced Score Card and Contingency theories anchored the study while descriptive research design was applied. Target population was 33 airlines and proportionate stratified purposive sampling technique was used with a sample size of 7 airlines. Fifty-seven respondents filled the semi-structured questionnaires for primary data collection while a document review tool assisted to collect secondary data. Pilot study involved 8 respondents from Safari Link Airlines ascertaining the questionnaires appropriateness via content and construct validity while its reliability proven by 0.794 Cronbach’s Alpha test. Descriptive and inferential statistics were employed to analyze data. The results indicated that industry partnerships significantly affected airline performance with strong contribution from code-share agreements, resource sharing, and joint safety training. The study concluded that industry partnerships having significantly linked to positive airline performance through sharing of best practices and resources for efficient flight operations and improved job satisfaction, necessitated airlines to form favourable stakeholder industry partnerships. This study recommends incorporating other sectors of the aviation for findings to be fully representative of Kenya’s aviation sector and for comparison with other countries. It also recommends investigating the influence of industry regulations and political interference as mediating and moderating variables that may be restrictive to management’s autonomy. Finally, the study recommends airlines and industry regulatory bodies to freely avail substantial secondary data to compliment the primary data for eliminating bias and comprehensive analysis of findings.