碩士 / 國立高雄海洋科技大學 / 航運技術研究所 / 106 / Working on the immense and changeful ocean, nautical science majored students have to be perseverant, competent and knowledgeable, applying their professional knowledge to their internships so that they can test and verify if they can integrate their knowledge with marine industry seamlessly and serve as competent mariners. Maritime students have to spend a long time on the sea during their internships. For the students, how to adapt to the interpersonal relationship and how to fit into the environment are the critical challenges for them, testing their adaptability and their wisdom. If students are unable to overcome the difficulties and cannot adjust their mentality, they are very likely to give up halfway. As a result, their internships are unfinished and the education resources – quota of trainees – are wasted.
This study completed a pretest questionnaire survey in February ~ May 2017, in which 21 copies of psychological scale were received and were divided into three categories – highly, moderately, and lowly suitable for maritime internship – based on the survey results. 7 respondents were found highly suitable for maritime internship (score 123 – 130), 11 respondents were found moderately suitable for maritime internship (score 102 – 119), and 3 respondents were found lowly suitable for maritime internship (score less than 100). According to the survey results, the highly suitable students exhibited a high level of learning motivations, setting their learning goals with positive and active career value. The moderately suitable students were eager to give the internship a try and exhibited the ability to complete their tasks properly although they could be easily frustrated by pressure. The lowly suitable students were confused about maritime career. They missed their homes and tended to escape from pressure if the internships were too long for them. There is no doubt they are a highly risk group for the internships.
In September 2017, based on the results acquired from the pretest survey, this study modified the questionnaires with emphasis on the criteria for students to select their careers. The sequence of questions was adjusted accordingly. The modified questionnaire was made up of five dimensions: maritime learning motivations, evaluation of adaptation to workplace, job satisfaction, viewpoints of career value, and students’ self-evaluation of their personality traits. Many questionnaires were distributed in September 2017. In November of same year, 88 valid questionnaires were received for second analysis. Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) was employed, serving as a systematic decision model for analysis and solution finding. The issues associated with internships were weighted to determine the quality of internship environments in an attempt to improve the internship resources and to solve the personnel assignment problems.
Last but not least, this study reviewed the onboard internship systems established by various countries in an attempt to make up for the deficiency of Taiwan’s maritime education system. According to the analysis and study, there are five critical factors affecting onboard internships: (1) A constructive and positive interpersonal relationship on the ships can help students work merrily. (2) Students can improve their families’ financial situation if they continue to work for the same shipping company after they complete their internships. (3) Once students adapt to a group life, they can get along with people easily. (4) The quality of maritime internships is very important for students to choose maritime service as their career. (5) Shipping company’s size and personnel promotion system are very important for students to decide whether or not to work for same shipping company after they complete their internships. Moreover, five factors are less likely to affect maritime internships: (1) Students set their goals during their internships and strive to accomplish their goals accordingly. (2) Students are likely to feel nervous and unwell when they work under high pressure. (3) Students constantly pay attention to school information and grasp their opportunities. (4) Students are confident they can apply their professional knowledge to their maritime internships. (5) Students choose to escape from pressure instead of facing it whenever they are faced with pressure.
As stated above, onboard internship is a painstaking process for all mariners. Schools provide education resources for students to build their knowledge base, and rely on shipping companies to provide an apprenticeship for the students to integrate their knowledge with the practical daily routines. The government has to inject internships with more education resources and review the neighboring countries’ mariner cultivation system as a reference for Taiwan’s maritime internships, allowing Taiwan’s marine industry to be connected to other industries. By doing so, Taiwan’s marine industry will prosper once again.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TW/106NKIM0300001 |
| Date | January 2018 |
| Creators | Pei-Chun Lin, 林姵君 |
| Contributors | Chien-Chang Chou, 周建張 |
| Source Sets | National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan |
| Language | zh-TW |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Format | 107 |
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