Crew

Crew of a spacecraft (Space Shuttle Atlantis, STS-112, 2002)

A crew is a body or a group of people who work at a common activity, generally in a structured or hierarchical organization. A location in which a crew works is called a crewyard or a workyard.[1] The word has nautical resonances: the tasks involved in operating a ship, particularly a sailing ship, providing numerous specialities within a ship's crew, often organised with a chain of command. Traditional nautical usage strongly distinguishes officers from crew, though the two groups combined form the ship's company. Members of a crew are often referred to by the titles crewmate, crewman or crew-member.

Crew also refers to the sport of rowing, where teams row competitively in racing shells.[2]

Types

  • For a specific sporting usage, see rowing crew.
  • For filmmaking usage, see film crew.
  • For live music usage, see road crew.
  • For analogous entities in research on human judgment and decision-making, see team and judge–advisor system.
  • For stagecraft usage, see stage crew.
  • For video production usage, see television crew.
  • For crews in aviation and the airline industry, see groundcrew and aircrew.
  • For crews in human spaceflight, see astronaut.
  • Tank crew
  • Boat crew

References

  1. ↑ Dubrin, Andrew J. (2006). Essentials of Management. Nashville, TN: South-Western publishing, Co. ISBN 9780324321104.
  2. ↑ "Speed Rower, Competitive Rowing". Archived from the original on June 9, 2009. Retrieved February 5, 2009.
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