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A critical realists approach to seafarer\u27s non-compliance to standards on-boar ship
No full textFilipino seafarers for the longest time are considered as an important component of our country’s overseas Filipino workers. Their remittances are a major contributor to the country’s gross domestic product. Many sectors refer to them as the modern heroes of our country providing support to the economy, their company, and their family. The objective of this paper is to explain the causal mechanisms that resulted to the non-compliance of seafarers following simple instructions in the line of work resulting to unfortunate situations such as maritime accidents. This paper is more importantly directed to the different manning agencies and their foreign principals. Much as they are focused on company profits and revenues, making seafarers competitive as far as their skills are concerned, they are also responsible in keeping their seafarers safe and protected while they are on board. The phenomenon that is being observed is why Filipino seafarers, in spite of extensive trainings and in-house programs meant to ensure that they will follow and comply the standards set upon by the International Maritime Organization governing body, there are still numerous accidents being experience as a results of non-compliance of these procedures. Through this research, the author will be able to contribute in the maritime industry by informing and educating the proper authorities about the significance of addressing non-compliance of seafarers in the prevention of maritime accidents. Seafarers must be sufficiently educated, trained to operate, and must follow procedures and guidelines. In 2107, marine accidents killed 1,163 people and caused almost $197 million in insured loses for ship owners. According to the research of Batalden and Sydnes (2017), some of the causal factors leading to maritime accidents can be attributed to higher levels of the organization. Many of these ship owners have put insufficient effort in handling the activities of their people (Batalden and Sydnes, 2017). Another study by Apostol-Mates and Barbu (2016) states that maritime accidents are caused by human factors. Humans are not robots and cannot be programmed to keep an eye on every processes on board. There are also a variety of elements that may affect their performance such that it is very difficult to adhere to the maritime law for each state or country that their vessel passes by (Apostol-Mates and Barbu, 2016). The critical realist philosophy will be used by the author in describing the phenomenon that is being observed. According to Bhaskar (1989) his argument is that as researchers we will only be able to understand what is going on in the social world if we understand the social structures that have given rise to the phenomena that we are trying to understand. He added that critical realism is a philosophical tool for identifying causal mechanisms within a particular field of activity (Bhaskar, 1989
A proposal in developing and sustaining an effective maritime education and training system for Power Link Training and Assessment Center
No full textTraditionally, the purpose of training and development has been tat seafarers can accomplish their jobs efficiently. Strategic positioning of training and development directly promotes organizational business goals and objectives. The intention of this paper is (1) to determine whether Power Link and Training and Assessment center is able to implement an effective maritime education and training among their seafarers and help them in improving their knowledge and skills. Training is delivered for undergraduates (future seafarers) in maritime schools and universities and after graduation in maritime training centers and in the employing company. A particular attention must be given to transmission of adequate knowledge for gaining competences and abilities and not only theoretical insights (Maritime transport & navigation journal, vol. 2, 2010); and, (2) to determine whether seafarers from different manning agencies find our training programs effective in enhancing the skill level. Using a set of criteria for evaluating an effective maritime education and training by Demirel and Meha (2009), the researcher will be evaluating Power Link performance based on their own assessment versus the assessment of their clients particularly the seafarers of the manning agencies. The results showed that majority of the seafarers believe that the training programs of Power Link is effective in improving their competency though, they feel that it must improve their facilities and that they need to offer more IMO mandated courses to be preferred. The owner of Power Link also believes that a lot is still in store for the company if only they may increase the number of their courses. These findings will help provide valuable insights to the management of Power Link on how they may add sustainable practices that will increase their engagement with their clients
Sustainability mindset as antecedent of intention to work in sustainable maritime transportation company amongst Filipino seafarers
No full textThere are limited studies on what factors drive and influence the decision of seafarers to work for a particular maritime organization. This dissertation focused on determining the factors that may motivate their intention to work for these sustainable maritime organizations grounded on the Theory of Planned Behavior. An extension of this approach was used in identifying the anteceding role of the sustainability mindset and its elements in influencing the determinants of behavioral intention with the inclusion of perceived gender equality. This research was anchored on the Positivist philosophy, where the focus is to observe the regularity of a particular phenomenon, look for causal relationships, and support them with statistical evidence to create a generalization. The research design used in this study was quantitative descriptive and explanatory. Descriptive since the study described the nature of sustainability mindset through its elements and its anteceding role in influencing seafarers’ intention to work in sustainable maritime transportation. It was explanatory since it described the relationship among the variables included in the framework. A survey of 469 seafarer respondents was conducted utilizing PLS-SEM as a statistical tool to analyze the relationships of the latent variables in the structural framework.
The results suggest that the seafarers’ perceived behavioral control p-value \u3c 0.001, with 95% CI [0.205, 0.500], has a significant and positive relationship with their behavioral intention of working for sustainable maritime transportation companies. Likewise, based on the findings, indicators imply that the emotional intelligence element of the sustainability mindset p-value \u3c 0.001, with 95% CI [0.511, 0.734], was the primary catalyst in influencing the seafarer’s perceived behavioral control. The spiritual intelligence element of the sustainability mindset p-value = 0.018, with 95% CI [0.023, 0.268], also partially stimulated the seafarers\u27 perceived behavioral control. Determinants of this behavioral intention and antecedents of these predictors may expose areas for possible interventions in improving Filipino seafarers’ interest in addressing sustainability challenges, particularly on issues in the maritime transportation sector\u27s economic, environmental, and social dimensions. The findings of this study may also provide valuable insights to vital maritime stakeholders on how they may tailor their programs designed to influence and motivate seafarers to work for a sustainable maritime organization. The overarching result of this study suggests that those individuals who exhibit emotional intelligence and spiritual intelligence, both elements of a sustainability mindset, are more motivated to perform sustainable related activities and can better inspire people to find true meaning in their work
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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