ENGINE TEAM MANAGEMENT

1. The STCW 2010 requirements regarding ERM principally comprised with five key concerns
EXCEPT:
a. Social acceptance
b. Effective communication
c. Prioritizing of resources
d. Consideration of team experience

2. International Maritime Organization (IMO) recognizes that safe operation of ships is not possible
without effectively trained seafarers. Therefore, IMO has proposed some mandatory
requirements to reducing human fault factor in what perspective?
a. Fatigue
b. Stress
c. Pollution
d. Maritime accidents

3. Identify the priorities to which a manager must attend with respect to safety operations EXCEPT:
a. Within hours of joining vessel
b. During commissioning of the vessel
c. Outside during shore leave
d. Before vessel gets underway

4. Junior officers will gain some insight into the decision-making activities of senior officers and to
development of?
a. Assertiveness
b. Situational awareness
c. Decision making
d. Teamwork

5. Which of the following is not included with regards to the guidelines set out by the Flag
Administration in Engine team management?
a. Develop the skills and confidence of the more junior members of the team
b. It decreases employee acceptance
c. Assess own performance and formulate objectives for continuing professional development
purposes
d. Identify and terminate the development of error chains
6. The ability to perform a number of activities that ensure a group of people carry out their work
as planned
a. Team management
b. Group management
c. Individual management
d. Progressive management

7. Team management involves various organization and administration activities EXCEPT:

a. Setting team priorities
b. Setting barriers on the organization
c. Making sure the team priorities are carried out
d. Performance appraisals

8. Which of the following is not an important part of team management?

a. It facilitates effective team building
b. It boosts productivity
c. It discourage learning and turnover rate
d. It improves employee satisfaction

9. Is an essential requirement in engine room in special situations such as maneuvering, starting up

or machinery cooling down situations. Further, it can also be situations such as carrying out
main engine repairs and maintenance work in port or during a normal passage at sea
a. Group chat
b. Proper communication
c. Body language
d. Passive-aggressive

10. in a team includes video or phone calls, team meetings, 1:1's, and casual water-cooler
conversations is known as ____________.
a. Verbal team communication
b. Non- verbal team communication
c. Witten team communication
d. Body language group of communication
11. Communicators may struggle to express themselves or avoid voicing their feelings, needs, or
opinions altogether. Subsequently, they are inclined to put the needs of others before their own
and at their own expense is known as _____________.
a. Active
b. Passive
c. Reactive
d. Assertive

12. This type of communication can be dangerous because it can allow resentment and anger to
fester and build.
a. Active
b. Passive
c. Aggressive
d. Assertive

13. Communicators may carry feelings of resentment, which inevitably surface in subtle ways. While
these people are aware of their feelings and needs, they find it challenging to express them and
have difficulties admitting to anger or how they truly feels known as?
a. Passive
b. Passive-assertive
c. Passive-aggressive
d. Assertive

14. Communicators utilize open, genuine, and direct communication in their interactions. They
speak with intention and integrity of their feelings, and their actions typically align with their
words is known as ____________.
a. Assertive
b. Passive
c. Passive-Aggressive
d. Aggressive

15. Communication plays an enormous role in our abilities to solve problems with others. Within an
organization, the ability to clearly convey the issue and work with other team members to find a
solution is instrumental for success is known is an effective communication by?
a. Increase employment engagement
b. Fosters a more collaborative and productive workplace
c. More efficient problem solving
d. Makes it easier to reach goals
16. According to the accident causation reports, it is the one who greatly increase the probability of
human error, which is the most dominant factor leads to the ship accidents?
a. Lack of confidence
b. Lack of situational awareness
c. Lack of decision making
d. Lack of critical thinking

17. Is longer lasting and more thoroughgoing than temporary fatigue. It characterizes itself by a
state of constant weariness that increases on a longer term. It decreases your mental capacity
and that is the problem for officers on board vessels known as?
a. Temporary fatigue
b. Acute fatigue
c. Chronic fatigue
d. Sub chronic fatigue

18. Temporary fatigue has an easy to find cause and remedy such as what kind of solution?
a. More body fluid intake
b. More sleep
c. More food to take
d. More social engagement to take

19. Another possible cause of lack of situational awareness is when the higher ranked crew
member does not show trust in the lower ranked crew member and spends a lot of extra time to
make sure everything goes according to plan.
a. Trust and educate
b. Information overload
c. Fatigue
d. Lack of inability to decide

20. Taking into consideration all the factors involved and analyzing the information after studying
them, to make the most appropriate decision known as?
a. Priority
b. Balancing
c. Delegation
d. Communication
21. A leader must have a pleasing appearance. Physique and health are very important for a good
leader known as ____________.
a. Vision and foresight
b. Physical appearance
c. Intelligence
d. Communicative skills

22. A leader has to be having a fair outlook which is free from bias and which does not reflects his
willingness towards a particular individual. He should develop his own opinion and should base
his judgment on facts and logic known as?
a. Knowledge of work
b. Communicative skills
c. Objective
d. Vision and foresight

23. Here, the leader totally trusts their employees/team to perform the job themselves. He just
concentrates on the intellectual/rational aspect of his work and does not focus on the
management aspect of his work known as ______________.
a. Laissez Faire Leadership Style
b. Democrative/Participative leadership style
c. Autocratic leadership style
d. Will power leadership style

24. Refer to the desirable and appropriate values and morals according to an individual or the
society at large known as _____________.
a. Participative
b. Autocratic
c. Ethic
d. Democratic

25. He is fair and just. An ethical leader must treat all his followers equally. There should be no
personal bias. Wherever some followers are treated differently, the ground for differential
treatment should be fair, clear, and built on morality is another ethical skill of a leader known
as?
a. Community building
b. Justice
c. Serving others
d. Honesty