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    Linking Personality Traits with Entrepreneurial Attitude with Mediation of Entrepreneurial Alertness: An Explorative Study on Indian Marine Engineers
    (Journal of Maritime Research, 2023-09-16) Pattanaik, Krushna Mohan; Mitra, Toorban
    On the discourse of virtues of entrepreneurship to economic development, a spate of scientific evidence illuminates the mediation effect of entrepreneurial alertness on the linkage between personality traits, and entrepreneurial attitude carried out among university students, and many of the studies are Western oriented. Also, the scanty nature of such studies on the Indian maritime sector calls for an explorative intervention to identify such mediation effects. Using standard questionnaires for measuring personality traits, entrepreneurial attitude and alertness, this study uses convenience sampling to gather evidence from active Indian marine engineers to establish linkages among such attributes. The basis of research anxiety is due to a lack of formal ways to channelise the entrepreneurial attitude among Indian marine engineers. This study calls for arenas of re-conceptualising policy interventions to formalise investment opportunities for marine engineers and thus contribute to higher growth rates of the blue economy of India.
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    Measurement of stress among marine engineers: a methodological intervention
    (The International Maritime Transport and Logistics Journal, 2022) Mitra, Toorban; Pattanaik, Krushna Mohan
    Stress measurement has been an issue on the backburner for maritime sector. In this sector, job related stress has been considered as a way of life. With the onset of pandemic, understanding stress and its management on board ships has become a challenge and of paramount significance to seafarers and shipping companies. Extended contracts of employment, constraints on ships, work fatigue, away from family have all highlighted the need for scientific research on understanding stress on board ships, particularly during challenging times. Most of the studies on stress management and measurement among seafarers employ generalized stress management techniques which do not illuminate sector specific stressors, particularly during uncertain times like Covid-19, let along illuminating general job related stressors. Lack of scientific understanding of stress and stressors in maritime sector adds on to this challenge and thus calls for a sector specific methodological intervention to understanding of stress and stressors among seafarers. In this backdrop, based on previous evidences and discussion with seafarers, a methodology is developed to use a structured questionnaire covering stressors like job itself, company policies, planning activities, away from family, cultural differences and lack of socialization. Since pandemic posed dynamic constraints in the maritime ecosystem, such a structured questionnaire would help in understanding stress and stressor among marine engineers during Covid-19 and facilitate in the development of appropriate stress management strategies by firms in maritime sector. Reliability and validity of the questionnaire has been checked