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Importance of Leadership Qualities on Board Ships with Emphasis on Crisis Situation

Inadequate leadership is one of the factors that can cause maritime accidents and affect human lives and environment. Overview of maritime accidents caused by inadequate leadership and human relations among ship's team members is presented in this paper. Good human relations and satisfaction among all ship's team members is precondition for effective teamwork. Ship's masters should establish effective teamwork in order to implement adequate leadership style and increase safety on board ships. Knowledge of factors that can be crucial for implementing proper leadership style can serve as motivator for better work performance and stimulate the morale, especially in case of maritime accidents that have evacuation of the vessel as a consequence. Implementations of positive characteristics and methods that can serve as guidelines and key to successful leadership on board ships are introduced in this paper. Senior ship's officers were asked to fill a questionnaire ranking characteristics of leadership qualities. Important characteristics of leadership skills are summarized from questionnaire analysis.

leadership ; human relations ; decision making ; teamwork ; accident

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