Work values and productivity among female seafarers

Nowadays, the maritime industry is considered an integral part of the global economy, and women are increasingly playing a key role within it.They are making their presence felt and contributing to the industry in meaningful ways.The present study aims to investigate the status quo of work values and productivity among female seafarers and to examine how these variables relate to each other.This study is focused with the following objectives: to describe the profile of the respondents in terms of rank, trade route, age, civil status, and years of service; to determine the work values of female seafarers in terms of achievement, status, altruism, safety and autonomy; to assess the work productivity of female seafarers in terms of quality of work, commitment and strategy; to test the significant relationship between work values and work productivity of female seafarers; to test the significant difference on the responses when group according to profile variable; and (6) to propose an action plan to enhance the work values and work productivity.Altogether, 117 maritime professionals who had sailed with female seafarers were involved in this study.Four modified and adapted questionnaires were used to measure the work values and productivity of female seafarers on a Likert-type scale.The data were collected, and then descriptive statistics analysis and correlation analysis were conducted with SPSS.The findings of this study show that: most of the respondents were management and operational level officers, with worldwide trade routes, aged 21-30, single, and with 1-5 years seagoing experience; Maritime professionals strongly agree that work values are commonly observed by female seafarers, but autonomy is regarded as the least important work value for them; There's also a high level of productivity among female seafarers However, the doing strategy is thought to be the least frequently observed in their work productivity.There is a statistically highly significant relationship that between work values and work productivity.When the responses are grouped by rank, trade route, age, civil status, and years of service, there are no statistically significant differences; Finally, an enhancement program has been proposed to enhance the work values and productivity of female seafarers.