Between a Rock and a Hard Place

The Implications of Lost Autonomy and Trust for Professionals at Sea

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2374313
AutoresHelen Sampson (0000-0002-5857-9452, Cardiff University, autor de correspondencia), N Turgo (0000-0001-5508-7260, Cardiff University), Iris Acejo (0000-0001-8841-3683, Cardiff University), Neil Ellis (Cardiff University), Lijun Tang (0000-0002-6815-0625, Plymouth University, UK)
Año2019
Volumen33
Número4
Páginas648-665
Fecha de publicación2019-08-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaWork Employment and Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0950-0170 • E-ISSN: 1469-8722
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0950017018821284
OpenAlexW2913400179
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas11
Referencias citadas28

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

Autonomy · Business · Distrust · Dysfunctional family · Economics · Management · Order (exchange · Political science · Process (computing · Public relations · Punishment (psychology · Sociology · Vignette · Law · Maritime Security and History · Outsourcing and Supply Chain Management · Policing Practices and Perceptions · Psychology · Social Psychology