Human Element in Container Shipping

Burkhard Lemper is Director of the Maritime Economics and Transport Department at the Institute of Shipping Economics and Logistics Bremen, and Honorary Professor at Hochschule Bremen.Thomas Pawlik is the Bremer Rhederverein Professor of Maritime Management and Dean of Studies at the Centre of Maritime Studies at Hochschule Bremen.Susanne Neumann is research associate and doctoral candidate at the Centre of Maritime Studies at Hochschule Bremen.

• Contents: Maria Progoulaki: The choice of seafaring profession – Susanne Neumann/Thomas Pawlik: Corporate Social Responsibility and Employer Branding – Runa Jörgens: Demands on Ship Officers according to the STCW Convention and Maritime Crew Resource Management as a future challenge for shipping – Enrico Lobrigo: Cross-cultural management for seafarers – Cecilia Österman: Performance influencing factors in maritime operations – Katrin Ewert: Human Error in Shipping – Henning Jessen: Criminalization of Seafarers in the Event of Maritime Accidents and Ship-Source Environmental Pollution - The Necessity for Fair Treatment – Lisa L. Froholdt: Pirate negotiation communication - Whose risk? Whose responsibility? A study of a company’s crisis communication response strategies to psychological stress in an authentic pirate hijacking situation – Corinna Onnen: If work changes to leisure time and free time becomes work.