Team leadership and teamwork in the Croatian Navy – Maritime Interdiction Operations Teams

Authors

  • Mihael Dedo
  • Robert Fabac
  • Tomislav Sunko

Keywords:

transshipment teams, leadership, team leadership model, structure, Croatian Navy, vessel interception procedures

Abstract

This paper deals with the topic of teamwork, and application of the theory of team leadership to the example of Maritime Interdiction Operations Teams (MIT) and transfer of teams, in composition of the Croatian Navy. The paper presents the key topics and issues of the theory of team leadership: influence of the leadership process on the team’s processes and ultimately on performance, distributed leadership within the team, influence of the context on leadership and success. By researching boarding teams, their structure, leadership processes of such teams, processes performed by teams and the way in which such teams carry out their tasks in context of the military organization, the Croatian Navy and the Armed Forces of the Republic of Croatia were elaborated. Peculiarities of the team leadership and team processes from cognitive, motivational, coordination, and emotional categories were determined.
Characteristic activities of the transition phase of the team as well as the action phase, and peculiarities of performance of the boarding teams, were determined. Scientific contributions of the work, and contribution to military organization, as well as a wider social contribution, are the result of the aforementioned findings.

Author Biographies

Mihael Dedo

Navy Lieutenant MIHAEL DEDO (dedo.mihael@gmail.com) is a student of the post-graduate university study “Maritime Studies “at the University of Rijeka, module - Military Maritime Systems. At the time of writing this paper, he is Commander of the Coastal Surveillance Station in the Coastal Surveillance and Guidance Battalion of the Croatian Navy. His field of research is development and maintenance of the national security of the coastal state, i.e., technology for protection and control of the maritime traffic in countries with indented coastlines.

Robert Fabac

ROBERT FABAC is a Professor of the Organizational Design at the Faculty of Organization and Informatics, University of Zagreb. He studied interdisciplinary post-graduate studies for the needs of the Croatian Army and obtained his Master’s degree at the University of Zagreb. After that, he obtained his doctor’s degree at the Faculty of Organization and Informatics of the University of Zagreb. His scientific interests include organizational theory and design, strategy and game theory. You can contact the author at rfabac@foi.unizg.hr.

Tomislav Sunko

Navy Lieutenant Commander TOMISLAV SUNKO, univ.spec.naut. (tsunko@ morh.hr). He received his Master’s degree at the postgraduate professional study of maritime transport at the University of Split, Faculty of Maritime Affairs in Split, majoring in Maritime Nautical Science. He is a student at the post-graduate university study “Maritime Studies “in Rijeka, the module - Military Maritime Systems. At the time of writing this paper, he has been assigned to the Dr. Franjo Tuđman Croatian Defence Academy, Dean’s Office, Department of Maritime Operations, Section of the Maritime Operations Section, teacher of the Maritime Studies.

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Published

2023-01-13

Issue

Vol. 6 No. 2 (2022): Strategos, December

Section

Scientific review paper