TS300202 Leadership, Safety, and Culture

General college entrance requirements

The students will acquire knowledge and develop attitudes in relation to safety and leadership seen in a cultural context.
After completing the course students should be acquainted with laws and rules related to safety on board and how these can be implemented. Upon completing the course students should understand how the human factor in the work place--psychology, communication, and culture background can influence management activities. The student should have insight, understanding, and respect for the cultural patterns that determine his/her own and others' behaviour.

Psychology of the Workplace: motivation, emotions, communication.
Perception and Group Psychology. (This area includes required exercises.)
Quality Leadership: Philosophy, directing, checks, and standards.
Safety: Prevention measures and the milieu on board, preparation, and crisis management.
Understanding Culture: The meaning of the concept culture (values, norms, symbols).
Understanding how religion, art, relation to nature and time and space, and food influence our self-knowledge, national culture, as well as organizational safety culture.
Geert Hofstedes research will be applied to focus national cultures (Individualism/collectivism, power distance, masculine/feminine, and uncertainty. In the culture unit there is both a required group project and a required individual written assignment.

Lectures, class group exercizes (PBL), and written and oral presentations.

A required group project(oral) and an individual written project must be approved before the candidate can sit fot the exam.

3-timers written final examination