{"id":21626,"date":"2025-12-03T11:07:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T10:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cmi.es\/leadership-sustainable-development-airbus-tasl\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T11:07:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T10:07:51","slug":"leadership-sustainable-development-airbus-tasl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cmi.es\/en\/leadership-sustainable-development-airbus-tasl\/","title":{"rendered":"Leadership for sustainable development: a study of Airbus and Tata Advanced Systems Ltd."},"content":{"rendered":"

Corporate social responsibility<\/strong> and sustainable development have become imperatives for companies, and the aerospace sector is no exception. A recent study by Rafael Garc\u00eda Mart\u00edn, founder, president and dean of CMI Business School<\/strong>, together with Alfonso Dur\u00e1n Heras and Karen Reina S\u00e1nchez, examines how different leadership styles bear on meeting sustainability goals and on social reconstruction, taking the cases of Airbus and Tata Advanced Systems Ltd. (TASL).<\/p>\n

Titled \u201cInfluence of leadership styles on sustainable development for social reconstruction: current outcomes and advisable reorientation for two aerospace multinationals \u2014 Airbus and TASL\u201d, the study was published in a special issue on \u201cA new perspective of leadership in civil society and social reconstruction\u201d of the journal Sustainability<\/strong>. It uses an inductive methodology based on two transnational case studies and a comparative analysis supported by statistical testing.<\/p>\n

Data was gathered through interviews and surveys<\/strong> with key leaders at both companies, focusing on three leadership styles: transactional, transformational and servant leadership.<\/p>\n

In analysing the current position, the results indicate that all three leadership styles<\/strong> are present at both companies, but that servant leadership \u2014 centred on responsibility towards others \u2014 and transformational leadership, which seeks to inspire and motivate employees towards shared goals, stand out as more effective for sustainable development and social reconstruction.<\/p>\n

The finding underlines how much a leadership oriented towards vision and towards service to others matters, given today’s environmental and social complexities.<\/p>\n

As for how the two companies might reorient themselves in future, the study proposes a hybrid model<\/strong> of leadership that is fundamentally servant-based while incorporating elements of transformational and transactional leadership, allowing a gradual shift towards a servant approach more firmly centred on values and sustainability.<\/p>\n

In the authors’ words \u2014 Rafael Garc\u00eda Mart\u00edn, Alfonso Dur\u00e1n Heras and Karen Reina S\u00e1nchez<\/strong> \u2014 \u201cour study seeks to fill the current gap in understanding how leadership styles influence the economic, social and environmental outcomes of the aerospace and defence industry. By highlighting the effectiveness of servant and transformational leadership, we hope to provide valuable guidance for other companies in this sector and in similar ones\u201d.<\/p>\n

The full study can be read here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Corporate social responsibility and sustainable development have become imperatives for companies, and the aerospace sector is no exception. A recent study by Rafael Garc\u00eda Mart\u00edn, founder, president and dean of CMI Business School, together with Alfonso Dur\u00e1n Heras and Karen Reina S\u00e1nchez, examines how different leadership styles bear on meeting sustainability goals and on social […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":390,"featured_media":4181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,211],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-coverage","category-csr-and-sustainability"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmi.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmi.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmi.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmi.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/390"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmi.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cmi.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmi.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmi.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmi.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmi.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}