Group 4
Members:
Amodia
Beco
Gabiola
Manzo
Ramirez
Sancio
Chapter II
Ethics
SHIPBOARD DISCIPLINE
Ship’s officers and crew should realize the importance of maintaining strict discipline and courtesy on board. The kind of discipline existing aboardship will either mean the difference between crews who promptly follow orders or a mutinous bunch of gripping seamen, especially so when the ship is in distress and life is in danger.
The desirable and happy seamen are those who have the proper concept of discipline. No organization could operate without it. Discipline develops selfcontrol, character, and efficiency. It implies subjection to control exerted for the good of the whole, and adherence to rules, policies and regulations intended for the orderly coordination of effort. A well discipline crew is one whose members work with enthusiasm, willingness, and zest as individuals; and as a group tries to fulfill the mission of the ship’s expectation of success. Discipline develops teamwork. The signs of shipboard discipline are manifested by efficiency in the performance of work and prompt obedience to orders especially in time of emergency aboardship.
Leadership, moral responsibility and discipline are some good traits that serve as guidelines for shipboard discipline.
Leadership
Leadership is word seafarers should fully understand. This is something expected of you are long as you are a seaman or a
Navy man. It is quality like courage, intelligence, or diligence. All men have potentials for leadership. Others acquire more of it through experience you are not exception. If you were asked to carry out a job, the one who puts you in command will be happy and you as a leader will be given a “welldone”; however, if the job is not
Leadership is the ability and “know how” that gets a job done. Every person aboard a ship is a leader at some time and a follower at the same time. All of us follow certain leaders. The first mate, for example, has