碩士 / 國立臺灣海洋大學 / 商船學系 / 103 / In recent years, due to rapid social changes, improved living standards, low birth rate, and other factors, the well-paid seafarer work has lost incentive to the graduates of navigational and marine engineering departments in Taiwan. This has resulted in a low willingness toward working on board. Based on the statistics of the Maritime and Port Bureau,MOTC, as at the end of January 2015, there are only 3976 Taiwanese seafarers who work in Taiwan or around the world. Among those, ratings account for 46.48%, and their average age is rather old. As for shipping companies, the crisis of talent gap has emerged, and the working experience on the sea cannot be passed down as well, which results in technical gap. Consequently, it is a concern for the maritime programs to cultivate navigational and marine engineering talents, and enhance their willingness to work on board.
After the amendment of the Seafarer Law on April 17, 2013, the graduates of seafaring vocational high schools who have 3 years of experience as rating can take the officer qualification examination. This amendment offers the students an opportunity and motivation to work on board. By purposive sampling, this study interviews 19 graduates of Department of Seafaring, National Keelung Maritime Vocational High School in 2014, who intended to work on board. Qualitative research of “Social Cognitive Career Theory” was conducted. The social career factors regarding willingness of working on board were discussed. The main dimensions of “Social Cognitive Career Theory” include “self-efficacy”, “outcome expectation”, “occupational interest” and “social context”. The impact of the amendment of the Seafarer Law on students was also discussed, as the interview outline for the qualitative research. Moreover, the dimensions of background were included so as to understand the factors that affect the willingness of students on board.
The results showed that the “self-efficacy” and “outcome expectation” of the graduates of martime vocational high schools have a direct influence on their willingness to work on board. In other words, the guidance of career planning of students in Departments of Seafaring could effectively enhance the confidence of students to work as seafarers, increase their “self-efficacy”, and significantly elevate their willingness to work on board. Hence, this study argues that besides the instruction on professional skills, the seafaring vocational high schools could guide and enhance the confidence of students to as seafarers, so as to intensify their willingness to work on board. Moreover, after the amendment of regulations, the promotion criteria of ratings have changed, and the willingness of vocational high school students to work on board has enhanced. Thus, the students can have a clear career plan.
Based on the results, this study suggests that seafaring vocational high schools should recruit more full-time teachers with seafaring qualifications, and emphasize on the exploration of students’ interest and willingness regarding career guidance. The teachers are expected to pay attention to the work content and features of seafaring during lecturing process, so as to stimulate the willingness of students to work on board. The revision over regulations by the government and legislation department should be more pragmatic, focus on the aging problem, and make the promotion channels of ratings smoother. Meanwhile, the government and the schools should advocate on the seafaring work, enhance the recognition of seafaring work by social mass, encourage families to support the seafaring dreams of students, and stimulate the students to engage in seafaring work.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TW/103NTOU5728006 |
| Date | January 2015 |
| Creators | Lin, Yu-Rou, 林育柔 |
| Contributors | Guo, Jiunn-Liang, 郭俊良 |
| Source Sets | National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan |
| Language | zh-TW |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Format | 96 |
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