Page No. 43 - 66: A literature review on concepts related to a ‘distributed approach to safety leadership’ and its role in instilling safety culture on-board merchant ships

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  • Delna Hamavand Shroff Tata institute of Social Sciences

Abstract

This conceptual paper explores ‘distributed approach to leadership’ and its role in instilling safety culture on-board merchant ships. The paper reviews literature pertaining to (a) recent developments in safety leadership and its observed safety outcomes, and, (b) how safety culture has been conceptualized over the years. With such underpinning knowledge it then intends to understand how leadership is distributed across different levels of the maritime system thus adopting a multi-level perspective to understanding the phenomenon of leadership and its role in safety culture using a qualitative approach.

 

Making a shift from the traditional approaches of understanding individual behaviours and personal characteristics where the unit of analysis is the individual to a more practice based perspective; the focus of the proposed research is on understanding patterns of interaction among leaders, followers and their situation with the organization as the unit of analysis. This is an attempt to explore the emerging patterns of distribution despite the existing vertical hierarchical structure on-board ships.

Published

2019-05-15

How to Cite

Shroff, D. H. (2019). Page No. 43 - 66: A literature review on concepts related to a ‘distributed approach to safety leadership’ and its role in instilling safety culture on-board merchant ships. IIRE Journal of Maritime Research and Development, 1(2). Retrieved from https://ojsiire.com/index.php/IJMRD/article/view/120

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