Strange things happen at sea: training and new technology in a multi-billion global industry

Sampson, Helen; Tang, Lijun

doi:10.1080/13639080.2015.1102213

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“…However, there is a significant time-lag with regard to vessel delivery/launch. This means that ships frequently 'come on stream' when markets have turned and the industry is in recession (Sampson and Tang, 2016). In this context, there is considerable competition between companies for cargoes and there are circumstances in which companies continue to operate vessels at a loss.…”

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‘Between a Rock and a Hard Place’: The Implications of Lost Autonomy and Trust for Professionals at Sea

Sampson

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Acejo

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Work, Employment and Society

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This article describes changes associated with increased bureaucratisation and surveillance in the regulation and management of the 21st century shipping industry. Drawing upon 303 ‘real-life’ vignette-based interviews, it describes how these transformations are experienced by contemporary navigating officers, and engineers, working on commercial cargo vessels. The article draws attention to the dysfunctional effects of distrust in organisations, describing how lost trust and associated fears impact on the decision-making process of officers thereby inducing a degree of organisational paralysis. This finding may be of particular significance to employers who have introduced punishment-centred bureaucratisation in order to improve organisational efficiency and who are concurrently undermining it.

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‘Between a Rock and a Hard Place’: The Implications of Lost Autonomy and Trust for Professionals at Sea

Sampson

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Work, Employment and Society

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“…According to the Vietnam Maritime Administration, by 2018, Vietnam will have a shortage of 800 -1,500 officers, mainly managers, not to mention the labor export demand [9].…”

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“…The industry is not in industrial style, and workers are unaware of the concept of "going to work," not familiar with the concept of working as an employee and international integration. Facing these situations, the training of highquality maritime industry is always considered an important foundation [9].…”

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Approaching CDIO to Innovate the Training Program for Seafarers to Meet the Requirements of the Industrial Revolution 4.0

2019

Int. J. Adv. Sci. Eng. Inf. Technol.

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Vietnam is located on the normal arterial maritime route between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, between Europe, the Middle East, China and Japan with regional countries. In the context of the industrial revolution 4.0 and the deeper integration of Vietnam's economy into the global economy, Vietnam's maritime industry is increasingly developing and deepening international integration. The rapid development of the domestic fleet and the labour export service of seafarers are setting out for our maritime schools the opportunity to train crew members. Improvement of training program for seafarers are considered an urgent issue, which is also a prerequisite for contributing to the development of the maritime industry actively.However, the initial integration and practice in the past few years show that the officers and crew have increased in sufficient quantity to meet the market demand but are showing many professional and operational defects, practical skills, foreign languages when working on modern ships or multinational vessels. The limitation of crew members is due to many factors, one of the basic factors is the quality of crew training, and the defects that do not meet the practical needs, especially training programs at training institutions are outdated. The paper analyses the status of the quantity and quality of Vietnamese seafarers from 2010 to 2018, propose measures to improve the quality of maritime human resources, with a focus on building and developing crew training programs by CDIO approach to meet the requirements of businesses and society for future crews.Keywords-industrial revolution 4.0; CDIO approach; a training program for seafarers.

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“…In contrast relatively unskilled work was more likely to be offered on a 'casual basis'. However it seems that this is no longer the case as employers are demonstrating a lesser degree of commitment to the long term training and development of their officers (Sampson and Tang 2015).…”

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Careers at Sea: Exploring Seafarer Motivations and Aspirations

Baum-Talmor

2020

WMU Studies in Maritime Affairs

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Nowadays, in the era of flexible and precarious employment, the concept of a ‘career for life’ in one organisation appears to be redundant, as most employees in the global labour market do not have permanent employment (ILO, World employment and social outlook: the changing nature of jobs. Geneva: International Labour Office, 2015). This chapter focuses on the shipping industry as an example of a global industry that employs over a million seafarers (BIMCO, Manpower 2005 update: the worldwide demand for and supply of seafarers. Warwick: Warwick Institute for Employment Research, 2015) as their main labour force in what could termed flexible employment. The chapter explores the idea of having a ‘career’ within the precarious shipping industry by focusing on the reasons for joining, staying, and leaving a seafaring occupation. The chapter is based on existing literature, and on recent data that was collected as part of a study on seafarers’ career development.

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Strange things happen at sea: training and new technology in a multi-billion global industry

Cited by 17 publications

References 18 publications

‘Between a Rock and a Hard Place’: The Implications of Lost Autonomy and Trust for Professionals at Sea

‘Between a Rock and a Hard Place’: The Implications of Lost Autonomy and Trust for Professionals at Sea

Approaching CDIO to Innovate the Training Program for Seafarers to Meet the Requirements of the Industrial Revolution 4.0

Careers at Sea: Exploring Seafarer Motivations and Aspirations

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