Literature review

 According to the study by Ogbonna, and Harris (2015), culture can be described as the complex framework used for expressing the professional and national attitudes of the individuals who are working or living in the society. Concerning the term culture beelined above, corporate culture can be described as the behavioural code of conduct that is used and necessary for attaining the committed goals of the organization. The corporate culture is been developed by the corporate heads of the organization for increasing the overall commitment of the organizational workers to attaining the organizational goals (Nazarian, Atkinson, and Foroudi, 2017).

In addition to this, the study by Komu, and Kibe, (2019) have also highlighted that culture plays an important part in the development of society and industry as well. Therefore, the organizational culture can be explained as the collection of activity performance patterns that are followed by the organizational employees belonging to various ethnic groups. Concerning the organizational culture, the safety culture that exists in the maritime industry can be explained as the processes that are performed by the management of the industry for delivering effective safety to the workers so that they can perform their assigned tasks rather efficiently (Dyson, 2019). Considering the fact that the majority of the workers belong to different ethnicities, the safety culture is also developed by the shared values of every ethnicity in a manner that does not contradict the main organization's culture (Hiekkataipale, and Lämsä, 2019).

Moreover, Abeysiriwardhane, et al., (2016) explained the impact of knowledge in developing the attitude toward resolving the safety issues experienced by Maritime workers. The level of knowledge acquired by the workers through effective training can support them in reducing the level of safety issues. Further, it had been identified by Håvold, and Oltedal, (2018) that knowledge regarding safety issues and imposing a safety culture in the workplace can support an increment in the performance of the workers. This is because, with fewer safety issues, the workers rather feel free in performing their assigned tasks. This freedom of performing the activities by the workers in the maritime industry can also support their overall growth and accomplishment of workers and the industry as a whole. Several other researches such as have also agreed that knowledge about imposing an effective safety culture in the industry helps the workers in performing their assigned tasks effectively and efficiently (Relling, et al., 2018).

Methodology

 The methodology is the most important yet critical part of the research which helps in identifying the research objectives. Research methodology is associated with data collection, and analysis to evaluate acknowledgeable answers to the research questions. This also helps in defining the research approach for collecting and analyzing the data and for producing and explaining the results (Quinlan, et al., 2019).

Research Philosophy

Alston and Bowles, (2018) identified three main types of research philosophies that are used in social sciences research including interpretivism; positivism, and realism. Considering how maritime industries in Nigeria will be targeted for this research, it is evident that statistical and objective data will be certainly collected. Based on this perspective, this research will be conducted with positivism as a research philosophy while making the research more valid and reliable. This type of research philosophy will help the current researchers in acquiring the factual knowledge deduced from reality-based events (Hughes, and Sharrock, 2016).

Research approach

Research approaches are the practices used by researchers for learning more about their chosen research topic in a specified manner. Three main research approaches are generally been used in different types of research including qualitative, quantitive and mixed research approaches (Bullock, Little, and Millham, 2017). All these approaches are explained in detail in the third chapter of the current thesis. But, for the sake of the current research proposal, it is stated that the current research will be using mixed methods for collecting and analyzing the data.

Data collection and analysis

Data collection

For the current research proposal, which contains the basic topic "workers’ knowledge and attitude towards the safety culture in the maritime industry in Nigeria", the primary data collection technique will be used for data collection. To collect primary data, surveys will be conducted with the vessel employees, while managers could be investigated through interviews in the maritime industry. Around 15 maritime industry managers will be selected as a sample size for this research, and the survey will be conducted with 200 vessel employees. The attitude of workers will be measured using an attitudinal scale that will be developed using the Likert method of summative scaling based on “strongly agree, agree, neutral, disagree, and strongly disagree”. Moreover, the level of knowledge among workers regarding safety issues will be measured through a mix of direct and indirect methods of knowledge measurement. That is, the use of the direct approach of developing association and indirect knowledge measuring approach by using performance reports and work experiences of the workers will be used for measuring the knowledge. 

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