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The research of job satisfaction has become significant to any business and is a common issue in the area of unusual work environments such as the military, offshore, maritime, polar exploration, nuclear power plants and space programs. Although research in offshore has received much attention, studies on job satisfaction within the context is still limited. Moreover, none of these studies provided structural evidence of a job satisfaction instrument that specifically measures job satisfaction among offshore employees. In fact, these studies used existing instruments to measure employees’ job satisfaction in the offshore context. The absence of a suitable scale to assess employees’ attitudes on job satisfaction might not capture the employees’ real feelings about their satisfaction with the job. Therefore, there is a need for an industry-specific scale measuring offshore employee’s job satisfaction.
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