Container Port Employees’ Organizational Culture Perception, Job Satisfaction & Intention to Stay at Work

Abstract

Employees’ importance has recently started to be discussed by maritime organizations with the emergence of employee-oriented management strategies. While organizations are competing in today’s wild market environment, the success of companies depends on keeping employees happy. Besides job satisfaction of the employees trigger their performance especially in the maritime sector. This study aims to reveal the relationship among organizational culture, job satisfaction and intention to stay at work in a container port management organization. Data obtained through an online Likert-scale questionnaire of organizational culture perception, job satisfaction and intention to stay at work from 302 land-based employees of a Turkish port operator organization were tested with the Structural Equation Model. The uncertainty avoidance, masculinity, time-oriented, power distance, individuality dimensions of organizational culture have been tested. Results showed that the time-orientation dimension of organizational culture is effective on job satisfaction and job satisfaction has a positive effect on the intention to stay at work.

Keywords

• Organizational culture perception
• job satisfaction
• intention to stay
• maritime business organization
• maritime organization
• container port employees

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