Dealing with multicultural human resources in a socially responsible manner: a focus on the maritime industry
| Autor: | Maria Progoulaki, Michael Roe |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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Engineering
Focus (computing) business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Subject (philosophy) Transportation Human Factors and Ergonomics Qualitative property Management Monitoring Policy and Law Public relations Public international law Management Multiculturalism Human resource management Human resources business Safety Research Social responsibility media_common |
| Zdroj: | WMU Journal of Maritime Affairs. 10:7-23 |
| ISSN: | 1654-1642 1651-436X |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s13437-011-0003-0 |
| Popis: | Shipping companies’ crucial need for cost cutting is their main motive for recruiting seafarers of various nationalities and formulating multicultural teams on board ships. This paper seeks to examine ways of dealing with cultural issues by being a socially responsible company. The main point of the research is to examine how managing multicultural crews is related to the shipping companies’ and the industry’s social responsibility. An extensive literature review on the cultural issues of maritime manpower, with a focus on the working and living conditions and the management of shipping crews, reveals important aspects of the subject. This analysis is enriched with qualitative data from an on-board case study, and from a survey among crew managers and manning agents. Results show that managing multicultural human resources in a socially responsible manner requires socially acceptable behaviour towards seagoing labour from all the industrial actors. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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