The primary purpose of this study is to examine the cultural problem and working attitude in the Korean vessel of combined foreign crews who has increased.
Different culture between Korean and foreign crews working together in the vessel bring on many misunderstanding and dissonance in working. So to solve these problems it is needed to accept and adapt other cultural characteristics.
Also many characteristics of onboard working, such as isolated from home and society, limited workspace and violation of privacyhave a bad influence to vessel organization.
This study make the research model and hypothesis through literature survey on the cultural and onboard working characteristics.
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The following hypotheses are set up for the research objectives.
Hypothesis 1: There will be the gap of cultural homogeneity between foreign crews and korean crews working together in the vessel.
Hypothesis 2: There will be the gap of onboard working tolerance between foreign crews and korean crews working together in the vessel.
Hypothesis 3: the group of high level in cultural homogeneity is higher than the group of low levels in organizational commitment in the Korean vessel of combined foreign crews.
Hypothesis 4: the group of high level in onboard working tolerance is higher than the group of low levels in organizational commitment in the Korean vessel of combined foreign crews.
According to the results, hypothesis 1 and 2, There is significant difference in the degree of other culture acceptance & acculturation and onboard working psychological & physiological tolerance between foreign crews and korean crews working together in the vessel.
In conclusion studies on other culture acceptance & acculturation, the foreign crews more try to ensure cultural homogeneity than korean crews but onboard working psychological & physiological tolerance of the korean crews is higher than the foreign crews.
According to the results of hypothesis 3, the high level group of other culture acceptance & acculturation is higher than the low level group in organizational commitment, but the significant relation between other culture acculturation and job satisfaction was not found.
According to the results of hypothesis 4, the high level group of onboard working psychological tolerance is higher than the low level group in organizational commitment, but the difference between high physiological tolerance group and low group in organizational commitment was proved not to be significant.
This study is meaningful as exploratory research about cultural homogeneity, onboard working tolerance and organization commitment for combined foreigner crews and the result of this study contributes on management of crew and vessel organization.