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Inadequate leadership is one of the factors that can cause maritime accidents and
thus affect human lives and the environment. An overview of maritime accidents
caused by inadequate leadership and human relations among a ship's team
members is presented in this paper. Good human relations and satisfaction among
all ship's team members are precondit...
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... Quality assurance in MET consists of the following three elements: (l) the proposed curriculum, (2) teaching methodology and assessment and (3) adequate resources (Manuel and Nakazawa 2008). Against this background, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) produced model courses to assist educators in designing and delivering courses in line with the STCW Convention (Horck 2003;Vujičić et al. 2018;2019). Specific IMO model courses (1.30, 3.12, 6.09, 6.10) could help instructors prepare and conduct the official assessment of seafarers' competency (Gamil 2008;IMO 2012;2017a;2017b;2017c;Vujičić et al. 2019;Etman 2020). ...
The Maritime Education and Training (MET) instructors play an important role in maritime safety. They educate, train and prepare new and existing seafarers for efficient and safe job performance and ultimately shape the safety and sustainability of shipping operations. To assist instructors in performing their tasks appropriately, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) has developed various IMO model courses. The paper addresses the factors that bear upon the effectiveness of instructors at MET institutions. The authors developed a questionnaire with the aim of identifying the most significant factors from the instructors’ perspective and investigating whether there were correlations between factors and if they affected each other. The survey included 113 participants from 26 countries. In addition to descriptive statistics, Fisher’s exact test and chi-square test were used to analyse the obtained data and investigate the possible correlation between instructors’ competencies and perceptions of the factors affecting the teaching effectiveness. Finally, the research findings and the main conclusions and recommendations that emerge from these findings are presented.
... Within these departments, seafarers are divided into teams that perform daily work [3]. To be effective and safe, each team has a leader, who is usually the highest-ranking officer among the team members [4]. It is assumed that the leader is the most experienced and the most competent member within a team. ...
... The master is the leader of all shipboard teams. Because people's safety is the number one priority, all shipboard teams need to function appropriately and cooperate to perform all tasks safely and effectively [4]. A competent team leader should enable safe and effective work performance, and a master as a shipboard leader should monitor all teams' performance onboard a ship, and take responsibility for their actions and safety [4,5]. ...
... Because people's safety is the number one priority, all shipboard teams need to function appropriately and cooperate to perform all tasks safely and effectively [4]. A competent team leader should enable safe and effective work performance, and a master as a shipboard leader should monitor all teams' performance onboard a ship, and take responsibility for their actions and safety [4,5]. ...
Safety leadership is critical in high-risk industries such as shipping since inadequate leadership can cause marine accidents, resulting in injuries, fatalities, damage to property and environmental pollution. One of the aspects of good and effective safety leadership is creating good human relations and satisfaction among crewmembers, considered a precondition for effective teamwork. Officers on board ships should establish effective teamwork and implement adequate safety leadership, positively affecting safety culture, increasing safety in general and improving marine environment protection. Safety leadership onboard ships comprises several characteristics, including maintaining safe work performance, carrying out safety training, and encouraging crewmember morale. Therefore, it is essential for all stakeholders in shipping industries that officers onboard ships can identify those characteristics, adapt, and apply them adequately. This paper presents the characteristics and skills that shipboard officers need to apply in order to be excellent leaders and serve with adequate safety leadership abilities. One tool for recognizing those characteristics and skills was a survey carried out among experienced professional seafarers. Analysis of the survey data revealed latent factors, these being transformational and transactional leadership elements affecting safety leadership onboard ships.
