Employee engagement in the shipping industry: a study of engagement among Indian officers

摘要: Industries across the world have been battling effects of global economic slowdown, adopting strategies to remain competitive and viable. It has realized that sustainable advantage can only be created through workforce, people who are organization. In order get best from employees so they go extra mile for organization, must “engaged.” Employee engagement as a construct become very popular in recent times it shown correlations with productivity, profitability, employee turnover, safety, absenteeism, etc. The shipping industry is also going lean period where efficiency operations becoming fundamental survival. such scenario, use practices, practiced ashore, may greatly assist ship owners developing an engaged, motivated, dedicated work force. This paper analyses drivers review literature, identifies shipping, develops questionnaire measure levels Indian seagoing officers compares this reported other industries. explores whether increase tenure company, senior more engaged their jobs compared junior officers. were found similar, but much lower than Additionally, was negatively correlated tenure, while marginally