5 . Working on ships is not an easy task and dissatisfaction and deactivation can easily be developed among seafarers as a result of various kinds of stresses.     1     Therefore, captain should take additional steps as mentioned below to ensure that all team members are comfortable with each other both on and off work.

The morning meeting, which is conducted to assign work to team members, is the best time to get all the crew members together. It is necessary that crew members talk to each other during such meetings.     2     This activity gives members a sense of responsibility and importance. It also works a great deal in improving their performance and interpersonal relationship.

On-board training program is yet another important opportunity to get crew members together to instruct important working knowledge or conduct safety committee meetings.     3     Spend free time together. It is often seen that post working hours, officers and crew members spend time in their own rooms instead of getting together in offices or crew lounge. Watching movies and playing games in free time is a solid way to know each other and build great relationships both on and off work.

    4     Party is a great method to bond people together and improve scarred relationships on board ships. However, it is necessary that they are arranged in such a way that maximum crew is able to participate. Festival celebrations are also a great way to enhance interpersonal relationships between people onboard.

The above-mentioned methods are some of the main ones that are used onboard to strengthen relationships on board ships.     5     And it would also improve productivity and employment satisfaction.

6 . Leland Scales has been interested in food most of his life. He started working in restaurants when he was 14. He has a Master of Arts in food studies from Chatham University. Scales now works for an organization in Pittsburgh called 412 Food Rescue. Here is an interview with him.

Q: At Chatham University, you learned about social justice and food.     1    

Scales: It completely changed my perspective on many aspects of the food system. I have to credit my experiences there for a great deal of the social justice work I am doing with 412 Food Rescue. It shaped my path for life.

Q: How did you get interested in 412 Food Rescue?

Seales:     2     So when I graduated, I came on board as a part-time truck driver.

Q: What do you do at 412 now?

Scales: I find non-profit organizations that get free food to people, such as an after-school program for kids that includes feeding them.     3     I try to build communities around Pittsburgh that work to end food waste. Honestly, though, my duties are not fixed because we all just fill in where we are needed depending on the day’s situations.

Q: Sounds like you wear lots of hats. What do you love about your job?

Scales: I love that we are able to help organizations get food to the people who really need it on a daily basis.

Q:     4    

Scales: It’s known that even with all the great work we do to get food into the hands of those who need it, there’s still tons of food waste and there are still people out there who are in need of food.

Q: How does your organization use technology to fight hunger?

Scales: Our Food Rescue Hero app allows us to alert our food rescue heroes of donations in the area.     5    

Q: Food rescue heroes? Who are they?

Scales: They are people who volunteer to help us get food to the organizations we partner with.