ORGANISATIONAL AND INSTITUTIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS UPON MERCHANT MARINE OFFICERS' OCCUPATIONAL COMMITMENT

Abstract

The thesis is concerned to examine the area of occupational commitment of merchant marine officers. From a general description of the occupation and its relationship to the wider environment the study focusses specifically upon the Israeli case. A review of recent literature on commitment and labour turnover demonstrates the inter-disciplinary approaches taken by previous researchers and, importantly, suggests that commitment and turnover are two quite complementary constructs. The emphasis in this study is upon the antecedents and causes of occupational commitment - an emphasis that has been relatively neglected in earlier work. The theoretical model established takes individual intentions as the dependent variable whilst institutional, organisational, situational and environmental factors comprise the intervening-variables .