Determinants of job satisfaction of Sri Lankan seafarers and tendency of selecting shore based jobs

Abstract

Shipping as an integrated component in larger goods movement system and is a major traditional industry which has been changed rapidly with globalisation. So job satisfaction of seafarers is considered as an important factor. This study is aimed to find the factors that affect the job satisfaction of Sri Lankan seafarers and to determine the existence of tendency in doing shore based jobs by Sri Lankan seafarers. Due to the unavailability of the secondary data sources, primary data gathering has been carried out in doing this study using stratified sampling methods. Descriptive analysis has been carried out to check the relationship between the response variable and other explanatory variables. Due to the availability of colliniarity between explanatory variables and as those variables are very much related to the job satisfaction, factor analysis has been carried out using data reduction techniques. To check the reliability of extracted factors, reliability analysis has been carried out. Based on the reliable factors hypothesis testing has been carried out for ordinal data using Kruskal Wallis test. When considering tendency in moving to shore based jobs by Sri Lankan seafarers, 79% of seafarers have tendency to move shore based jobs after some years of practicing seafaring career. Tendency of moving shore based jobs is highly depending on the civil status and living sector of seafarers.