Journal of Naval Sciences and Engineering

13

Authors: Alper ERTÜRK, Oğuz DEMİREL, Mustafa POLAT

Human resource management is one of the core functions and competences for companies operating in maritime transportation industry to enhance their sustainable competitive advantage in a dynamic business environment. Personnel selection and placement process considerably influences all areas and sub-functions of HRM regarding crew on board and thus it has been one of the most important topics in maritime HRM. This paper aims to propose a three-phase, integrated, comprehensible model that will provide an effective way and help the maritime companies in selecting the right person and placing him/her to the right job. In the first phase of the model, required and preferred skills and abilities of sailors are determined. In the second phase, how those skills and abilities are measured is established. In the third and last phase, a sound feedback and validation mechanism is established in order to validate the whole process, including developing a fuzzy complex multi-criteria mathematical model. This three-phase model based on a scientific approach is intended to be used by human resource managers as a decision support tool for choosing the right sailors.

16

Authors: Levent ŞAHİNTÜRK, Burcu ÖZCAN

A number of hypothesis tests are used to obtain information about the characteristics of one or more populations. While parametric tests are based on the assumption of normal distribution, non-parametric tests are performed with highly ordered series from the original series. The  main purpose of this study is to check whether two independent samples  taken from two different populations of normally distributed samples  fit the normal distribution with Kolmogorov-Smirnov and Shapiro-Wilk tests. And to determine the similarities of Kolmogorov-Smirnov and  Sign test to samples with normal distribution by Wilcoxon test and  those with non-normal distribution. As a result, it is aimed to compare the strength and effectiveness of the applied tests. We used  the MATLAB function in our work which is considered to be useful for  researchers.