Upper Echelons’ Naturalistic Decision-Making and Top Management Team Macrocognition in a High Reliability Organization

About the author Leonie Looser is a senior manager in the operations department of a large German airline and has been teaching leadership on a MBA programme for several years. She wrote her dissertation at the Chair of Human Resources and Leadership at Chemnitz University of Technology.

• Introduction.- Theoretical Foundations: The Organizational Context and High ReliabilityTheory.- Theoretical Foundations: The Collaborative Context.- Theoretical Foundations: The Decision-Making Context.- Conceptualized Research Model and Conceptual Connections.- Research Approach and Empirical Research Setting.- Empirical Findings and Analysis.- Summary and Discussion of Key Findings.- Research Contributions, Conclusion and Outlook.