The Relationships Between Seafarers' Job Satisfaction, Task and Contextual Performance

The main purpose of this study is to reveal the effect of seafarers' job satisfaction on the task and contextual performance which are dimension of job performance. It is also another purpose of the study to determine whether there are significant differences between the level of task and contextual performance of seafarers. For the purposes of the study, the data obtained by questionnaire from 416 seafarers working on the tankers were analysed with the help of SPSS 21 and AMOS 21 statistical package programs. It has been determined that both task and contextual performances of job satisfaction levels of seafarers affect the positive direction significantly in the path analysis made by structural equation modelling. In addition, there were statistically significant differences in the task and contextual performances of seafarers with linear relationships. At the end of the study, it was learned that seafarers' job satisfaction levels positively affected the change in their task and contextual performance, and seafarers' perception of task performance was higher than perceptual of contextual performance.