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Marine Engineering
2022/2023

Maritime Personnel Management


Syllabus

  • Human resources as an objective phenomenon and as a scientific discipline.
  • Human needs and abilities:

- theories on human needs, the development of needs and abilities (phylogenesis and ontogenesis),

  • psychophysical factors of ability and methods of control with an emphasis on maritime area.
  • Ethics: values, the generic essence of people, alienation, the importance of ethics in the business process.
  • Recruitment: personnel function, management mix, manager code, position chart.
  • Communication: non-verbal communication, verbal communication, the specifics of maritime communication, especially in terms of maritime safety.
  • Leadership: leadership functions, social power, leadership styles and organization of work, maritime management specifics.
  • Managing innovation processes: the stages of the innovation process and the role of leadership in it, team work and team thinking techniques, resistance to leadership, specific management of innovation processes in the maritime sector.
  • Conflicts, intrigues and negotiations: conflicts, intrigues and their resolutions, types of negotiations (in terms of objectives, tactics and negotiation style), models of negotiations, specificities of the creation and regulation of conflicts and maritime disputes.

 

IMO Model course 7.03:

  • BRIDGE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
  • Bridge resource management
  • APPLICATION OF LEADERSHIP AND TEAMWORKING SKILLS
  • See IMO model course 1.39 and STCW 2010 regulation I/ and section A-VI/1 paragraph

 

IMO Model course 7.01:

  • EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATIONS AND IMPROVING WORKING RELATIONSHIPS
  • Basic principles for establishing effective communications and improving working relationships between ship and terminal personnel
  • SHIPBOARD PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT AND TRAINING
  • Shipboard personnel management
  • Training on board ships
  • RELATED INTERNATIONAL MARITIME CONVENTIONS, RECOMMENDATIONS AND NATIONAL LEGISLATION
  • Related international maritime conventions, recommendations and national legislation
  • APPLICATION OF TASK AND WORKLOAD MANAGEMENT
  • Task and workload management
  • EFFECTIVE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
  • Application of effective resource management at a management level
  • DECISION-MAKING TECHNIQUES
  • Situation and risk assessment
  • Identify and generate options
  • Selecting course of action
  • Evaluation of outcome effectiveness
  • DEVELOPMENT, IMPLEMENTATION AND OVERSIGHT OF STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES

 

APPLY MEDICAL FIRST AID ON BOARD SHIP

See IMO model course 1.14, and STCW Convention 1978,as amended regulation VI/4, paragraph 1-3

Content according to IMO Model course 7.02:

  • Shipboard personnel management and training
  • Shipboard personnel management
  • Training on board ships
  • Related international maritime conventions and recommendations, and national legislation
    • Related international maritime conventions, recommendations and national legislation
  • Application of task and workload management
  • Effective resource management
    • Application of effective resource management at a management level
  • Decision-making techniques
    • Situation and risk assessment
    • Identify and generate options
    • Selecting course of action
    • Evaluation of outcome effectiveness
  • Development, implementation and oversight of standard operating procedures

 

IMO Model course 1.39:

Working knowledge of shipboard personnel management and training

  • Organization of crew, authority structure, responsibilities
  • Cultural awareness, inherent traits, attitudes, behaviour, cross-cultural communication

Knowledge of international maritime conventions, recommendations and national legislation

Ability to apply task and workload management, including:

  • planning and co-ordination,
  • personnel assignment,
  • time and resource constraints,
  • Prioritization.

 

Knowledge and ability to apply effective resource management:

  • allocation, assignment, and prioritization of resources,
  • effective communication on board and ashore,
  • decisions reflect consideration of team experiences,
  • assertiveness and leadership, including motivation,
  • obtaining and maintaining situation awareness.

Knowledge and ability to apply decision-making techniques:

  • situation and risk assessment,
  •  identify and generate options,
  •  selecting course of action,
  •  evaluation of outcome effectiveness.

 

Bridge resource management

Knowledge of bridge resource management principles, including:

  • allocation, assignment and prioritization of resources,
  • effective communication,
  • assertiveness and leadership,
  • obtaining and maintaining situational awareness,
  • consideration of team experience.
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Goals and competencies

Student during the studies:

  • realizes the basic psycho-physical properties of people that are important for their behavior in the work process,
  • be trained to regulate one's own human resources (skills, knowledge and motivation) and to influence the behavior of other people in the work process in accordance with the principles of ethics and business goals of the organization,
  • be trained to influence human resources in specific maritime conditions, in particular in terms of ensuring safety.

 

Special features:

Implementation of the learning content among others include requirements in accordance with the provisions of the STCW Convention A-II / 1, A-II/2, A III/1, A III/2  and the recommendations of the »Master and Chief Mate (Model course 7.01)« and »Officer in charge of a navigational watch (Model course 7.03)«, "Chief engineer officer and second engineer officer (Model course 7.02)" and "Officer and charge of an engineering watch (model course 7.04)  International Maritime Organization, London, 2014; Model course 1.39 »Leadership and Teamwork«

 

REMARK:

During lectures, students listen general topics, which are the same to both marine engineers and nautics, while the exercises are carried out by content, appropriate to study paths.


Basic literature

  1. Tavčar, Mitja I.: Izbrana poglavja za managerje. – Portorož: Fakulteta za pomorstvo in promet, 1997,127 str. ISBN: 961-6044-08-7
  2. Lipičnik, Bogdan: Ravnanje z ljudmi pri delu = Human resources management. – Ljubljana: Gospodarski vestnik, 1998, 422 str. ISBN: 86-7061-161-9
  3. Ostan, Iztok et al.: Osnove upravljanja s človeškimi viri (1) : Ko zdravila odpovedo: Knjiga o krepitvi življenjske moči. – Lj.: Aura, 2001, 271 str. ISBN: 961-6087-24-X
  4. Harsey, Paul; Blanchard, Kenneth H.: Management of  organisational behavior: leading human resources.–Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall, 2001, 516 str. ISBN: 0-13-017598-6

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