A Study on Factors Influencing Decision Making in Selection The Types of Ship for Sea Training of Thai Merchant Marine Students in Deck Department
Keywords:
Factors influencing decision making in selection the types of ship for sea training, Decision making in selection, Types of ship for sea trainingAbstract
A study on factors influencing decision making in selection the types of ship for sea training of Thai merchant marine students in Deck Department aims to (1) compare differences of the factors influencing decision making in selecting the ship types for sea training of Thai merchant marine students in deck department and (2) investigate choosing the ship type before and after sea training of Thai merchant marine students in deck department. The data were collected from Merchant Marine Training Centre, Burapha University and Kasetsart University. Questionnaires were used as the research tool and collected data from 92 responded questionnaires.
The research results found that the factors influencing decision making in selecting the ship types for sea training of Thai merchant marine students in the deck department before sea training were financial factors followed by career path factors, organizational factors, social factors and personal perspective factors respectively. On the other hand, the factors influencing decision making after sea training ranked in descending order were personal perspective factors, financial factors, organizational factors, career path factors and social factors. According to the comparison between all factors, the factor of international crew onboard (in the organizational factor), the factor of employee competency development (in the organizational factor), the employment factor (in the financial factor), the social value factor in selecting the ship types (in the social factor), the factor of the ship’s size influencing acceptance (in the social factor), the factor of previous onboard experience or relevant experience to certain ships (in the career path factor), the factor of additional training from specialized courses (in the career path factor) and the factor of specific skill accumulation (in the career path factor) showed statistically significant difference at the 0.05 level. The ship type chosen by most of both before and after sea training was the bulk carrier which the most selected the same type of ship both before and after sea training accounted for 74.19 percent and changing the type of ship after sea training accounted for 25.81 percent, which the results of this research show that the selecting of ship types of merchant marine students has financial factors as the top factor of both also the merchant marine students will have a change in their personal perspective after going through the maritime training.
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