EBookClubs

Read Books & Download eBooks Full Online

EBookClubs

Read Books & Download eBooks Full Online

Book Maritime Risk and Organizational Learning

Download or read book Maritime Risk and Organizational Learning written by Michael Ekow Manuel and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bridging an identified gap between research and practice in the domain of risk and organizational learning with respect to human/organizational factors and organizational behaviour, this book highlights the common and recurring threads in contributory factors to accident causation. Based on an extensive research project, it investigates how shipping companies as organizations learn from, filter and give credence/acceptability to differing risk perceptions and how this influences the work culture with special regard to group/team dynamics and individual motivation. The work is presented in the context of the literature regarding conceptual links between risk and the theoretical and operational themes of organizational learning, and in light of interviewees' comments. The themes include processes and structures of knowledge acquisition, information interpretation and distribution, organizational memory and change/adaptation and also levels of learning. The book concludes by discussing some practical implications of the research carried out in various maritime contexts and gives recommendations for the industry and other stakeholders.

Book Maritime Risk and Organizational Learning

Download or read book Maritime Risk and Organizational Learning written by Michael Ekow Manuel and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bridging an identified gap between research and practice in the domain of risk and organizational learning with respect to human/organizational factors and organizational behaviour, this book highlights the common and recurring threads in contributory factors to accident causation. Based on an extensive research project, it investigates how shipping companies as organizations learn from, filter and give credence/acceptability to differing risk perceptions and how this influences the work culture with special regard to group/team dynamics and individual motivation. The work is presented in the context of the literature regarding conceptual links between risk and the theoretical and operational themes of organizational learning, and in light of interviewees' comments. The themes include processes and structures of knowledge acquisition, information interpretation and distribution, organizational memory and change/adaptation and also levels of learning. The book concludes by discussing some practical implications of the research carried out in various maritime contexts and gives recommendations for the industry and other stakeholders.

Book Maritime Psychology

    Book Details:
  • Author : Malcolm MacLachlan
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 2017-01-21
  • ISBN : 3319454307
  • Pages : 241 pages

Download or read book Maritime Psychology written by Malcolm MacLachlan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-01-21 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first-of-its-kind volume assembles current research on psychosocial issues and behavioral and safety concerns inherent in life and careers at sea. Focusing mainly on the commercial maritime transport sector, it sets out the basic concepts of maritime psychology in the contexts of health and occupational psychology and illustrates more expansive applications across nautical domains. A systems perspective and detailed case studies spotlight unique challenges to mariners’ work performance, personal and environmental health and safety; it also provides support for psychometric assessment of seafarers, and describes emerging uses for the healing properties of the sea and sailing. The book is a springboard for continued research and practice development, further interaction between psychology and the maritime world, and the continued broadening and deepening of the field. Among the topics covered: · Positive psychology and wellbeing at sea. · Transferring learning across safety critical industries. · Occupational stress in seafarers. · The psychology of ship architecture and design. · Motion sickness susceptibility and management at sea. · Risk communication during a maritime disaster. Written with clarity and nuance reflecting the vastness of marine experience, Maritime Psychology will be of interest to lecturers, researchers, and students of occupational and health psychology and maritime science, and to social and health scientists and practitioners in these and related fields.

Book The Oxford Handbook of Group and Organizational Learning

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Group and Organizational Learning written by Linda Argote and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook is currently in development, with individual articles publishing online in advance of print publication. At this time, we cannot add information about unpublished articles in this handbook, however the table of contents will continue to grow as additional articles pass through the review process and are added to the site. Please note that the online publication date for this handbook is the date that the first article in the title was published online.

Book Managing Maritime Safety

Download or read book Managing Maritime Safety written by Helle A. Oltedal and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shipping is a pillar of global trade, with 90 per cent of the world’s trade in goods and raw materials carried by ship. Despite the economic benefits this delivers, maritime operations can be dangerous, and when accidents occur the consequences are serious. Consequential outcomes from hazards at sea include serious injury, death, loss of cargo and destruction of the marine environment. Managing Maritime Safety will give you a thorough understanding of contemporary maritime safety and its management. It provides varying viewpoints on traditional safety topics in conjunction with critical discussions of the international safety management code and its application. The book also offers new perspectives on maritime safety such as ship and equipment design for safety and the relevance of safety management systems, in particular the application of the International Safety Management code to remote controlled or autonomous ships. The authors all work in the maritime industry, as practitioners, in education, research, government and classification. The combination of wide-ranging and extensive experience provides an unprecedented span of views with a strong connection to the real issues in the maritime domain. This book sets out to provide much needed consolidated knowledge for university level students on maritime safety management, incorporating theoretical, historical, research, operational and design perspectives.

Book Thinking Safety

Download or read book Thinking Safety written by Capt. Ashok Menon and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2019-09-23 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In “Thinking” Safety, author Capt. Ashok Menon takes us on a refreshing journey into the risk-filled world of seafarers and the shipping industry and explores how we can eliminate accidents by understanding the fickle nature of our brain and its workings. He examines why some companies, in spite of spending hugely on safety training, still do not get the desired results of reduced number of accidents and losses. How can we make life for our precious seafarers, whose efforts support 90% of the world trade, safer so that they continue to sustain the quality of life of peoples across the globe? To keep this critical industry humming along and to attract new seafarers to this industry, we need to ensure that our seafarers can work and live safely as they go about their duties. So, can the shipping industry look at new ways of eliminating this “accident-proneness” of seafarers instead of just using the old tried and tested methods? Can we incorporate new knowledge from the field of neuroscience to enhance our training?

Book Safety Differently

Download or read book Safety Differently written by Sidney Dekker and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2014-06-23 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of a bestseller, Safety Differently: Human Factors for a New Era is a complete update of Ten Questions About Human Error: A New View of Human Factors and System Safety. Today, the unrelenting pace of technology change and growth of complexity calls for a different kind of safety thinking. Automation and new technologies have resu

Book Maritime Transportation  Safety Management and Risk Analysis

Download or read book Maritime Transportation Safety Management and Risk Analysis written by Svein Kristiansen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Book Basic Course in Maritime Security and Defense and Basic Firearms Training for Maritime Defense

Download or read book Basic Course in Maritime Security and Defense and Basic Firearms Training for Maritime Defense written by Jeffrey L. Kuhlman and published by . This book was released on 2010-03-15 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This set of manuals provides the text for maritime security and defense courses that are certificated by Nova Southeastern University and are considered by members of the maritime insurance industry as being an important training component for maritime risk management programs. This set is suitable for both the individual maritime professional as well as organizational training programs. Maritime security and defense are daily endeavors. They are also dynamic and require training upon which an effective and consistent foundation must be built. Personnel assigned to maritime security and defensive duties will find in this set the basic information necessary to build such a foundation. The Basic Manual provides essential information of identifying and dealing with a broad variety of threats. Designed for the unarmed ship security team which may be augmented by an armed private security team, the set includes essential information about piracy, terror and other threats; the attack; the defense; team structure and management; security decision-making; basic tactics; and survival techniques. The basic firearms training manual provides essential information for the effective use of firearms onboard and avoidance of unnecessary casualties resulting from inadequate training. Personnel assigned to unarmed security duties will find the information important as well. Maritime firearms training check-off sheets are provided.

Book Maritime Transportation

Download or read book Maritime Transportation written by Stein Haugen and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-15 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The environmental and human costs of marine accidents are high, and risks are considerable. At the same time, expectations from society for the safety of maritime transportation, like most other activities, increase continuously. To meet these expectations, systematic methods for understanding and managing the risks in a cost-efficient manner are needed. This book provides readers with an understanding of how to approach this problem. Firmly set within the context of the maritime industry, systematic methods for safety management and risk assessment are described. The legal framework and the risk picture within the maritime industry provide necessary context. Safety management is a continuous and wide-ranging process, with a set of methods and tools to support the process. The book provides guidance on how to approach safety management, with many examples from the maritime industry to illustrate practical use. This extensively revised new edition addresses the needs of students and professionals working in shipping management, ship design and naval architecture, and transport management, as well as safety management, insurance, and accident investigation.

Book Maritime Risk Management

Download or read book Maritime Risk Management written by Phillip Hellwege and published by Duncker & Humblot. This book was released on 2021-04-21 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insurance is a legal, an actuarial and a financial product, and it is one out of many risk management strategies. It follows that its history can only be studied in the broader context of the development of such strategies, applying an interdisciplinary approach. The theme of the present volume is maritime risk management. After an overview over the history of insurance, the contributions to the present volume examine different maritime risk management strategies by adopting a variety of methodological approaches. Some contributions focus on normative provisions, others contrast practice with legal scholarship, or focus on the emergence of insurance companies as opposed to individual insurers. Again, other contributions give insights in marine insurance practice in specific cities or analyse insurance practice through the lens of specific insurance litigation. As to the time frame, the different contributions span from antiquity to the nineteenth century.

Book Maritime Security Risks  Vulnerabilities and Cooperation

Download or read book Maritime Security Risks Vulnerabilities and Cooperation written by Lee Cordner and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-03 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uniquely employs risk and vulnerability approaches to advocate international policy options for enhancing maritime security cooperation in the Indian Ocean region. Understanding shared risks and common vulnerabilities that impact the achievement of mutual objectives in the oceanic domain present practical bases for progressing collective action. The Indian Ocean sea lanes are the world’s most important thoroughfares for energy resources (oil, gas and coal) and other cargoes. Secure maritime trade routes are vital to global, regional and national economies. Further, security challenges resulting from marine environmental degradation impacted by climate change are rising. Regional and extra-regional actors need to work more closely together to impose law and order at sea, control regional conflicts, respond to humanitarian crises and natural disasters, and conserve the marine environment. This book provides an invaluable resource for political leaders, policy advisers, academic researchers, military professionals, and students of international security and strategic studies.

Book Interfaces

Download or read book Interfaces written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Adopting Enterprise Risk Management in Today s World    An Evidenced Based Guide for Implementation

Download or read book Adopting Enterprise Risk Management in Today s World An Evidenced Based Guide for Implementation written by Steven Deck and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-17 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organizations are under increased pressure to manage risks. Traditionally, risk management responsibility has been delegated to individual operating units. This approach lacks an overarching strategy for managing risks and is being supplanted by an approach gaining favor in board rooms for strategically managing risks now termed enterprise risk management (ERM). As a senior leadership led initiative, ERM provides a comprehensive strategy for managing risks. However, existing ERM models often lack guidance for implementing ERM in complex organizational settings. This book examines why organizations adopt an ERM strategy and how critical success factors influence its implementation. The findings in this book are based on a review of the theoretical literature on change management, decision making, and organizational learning and a systematic review of current research on ERM. Best practices discussed in the book include approaches for adopting enterprise risk management to improve organizational performance, clarifying its purpose, reflecting the culture of the organization in its design, assigning a program champion and cross-functional implementation team, assigning risk assessment methodologies based on the type of risk, and using an ERM approach to build organizational learning and resiliency.

Book The Practice of Learning Teams

Download or read book The Practice of Learning Teams written by Glynis McCarthy and published by . This book was released on 2020-08 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learning Teams from Dr Todd Conklin, PhD, are part of a way of looking at safety, quality and operational excellence differently by a facilitated approach to worker engagement and supporting the empowerment of people to own safety, quality or operational excellence. A Learning Team is notable because it encourages organizations to obtain and consider different perspectives and angles of functional diversity to define a problem in a group context. The different perspectives that emerge from a Learning Team group demonstrate that no one person holds all the knowledge needed to solve complex problems.A Learning Team involves facilitated engagement (using a facilitator) with workers to understand and then learn from the opportunities that are presented by:1) Everyday successful and safe work (Everyday Learning Teams)2) Events or incidents that could have or did harm workers (Event Learning Teams)3) Introduction of changes (Management of change) that could affect worker safety (Periodic Learning Teams).Learning Teams support both worker learning and organizational learning by allowing the different stakeholders groups to understand better what, when, how, and why, people do things differently rather than following formal, written procedures or systems. By understanding what is necessary to make sure things go right, it is possible to focus on ensuring that factors which make things go right are present in the workplace every day. In the book Dr Todd Conklin states: "The Practice of Learning Teams will become a powerful resource in changing the way organizations learn and improve their operations. This book is easy to read and full of great concepts that can be used as soon as you read them. I love a book where you read an idea in the morning and try the same idea that very afternoon."This book has been written to act as a guide on how to:1) Integrate Learning Teams into your organization2) Improve worker learning and build critical thinking skills for workers in their everyday work3) Improve organizational learning using Learning Teams4) Become an effective Learning Teams facilitator by understanding what core capabilities and competencies are neededThroughout this book, we will explore examples of applications of Learning Teams in safety, quality and operational excellence.As the reader, you will gain additional knowledge and understanding about Learning Teams in the context of:1) The expected outcomes of a Learning Team2) Where you are at and how you become an effective Learning Team facilitator3) Learning about what makes a successful Learning Team4) When you can use a Learning Team to build and improve worker knowledge5) When you can use a Learning Team to build and improve organizational knowledge6) An opportunity to see the different contexts in which a Learning Team can add value7) Reflecting and learning from real-life experiences where Learning Teams have been successful, and considering the pitfalls that make them less effective.

Book Risk  Complexity and ICT

Download or read book Risk Complexity and ICT written by Ole Hanseth and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the challenges regarding risks and risk management related to the growing complexity of ICT solutions. This book draws upon theories of risk society and reflexive modernization, and uses various case studies to demonstrate efforts aimed at controlling and managing the complexities of various ICT solutions.

Book The Law of Maritime Personal Injuries

Download or read book The Law of Maritime Personal Injuries written by Martin J. Norris and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: