Empowerment and Employee Agility of Indigenous Oil and Gas Servicing Firms in South-South, Nigeria
Vol.6 Issue 3
This study examined the relationship between Empowerment and Employee agility of indigenous oil and gas servicing firms in South-South, Nigeria. The study was a micro-level correlational study that adopted the cross-sectional survey approach, done in a non-contrived environment. The data used for analysis was collected from the employees of seventeen (17) indigenous oils and gas servicing firms studied. Primary data was collected using a self-structured questionnaire as the applicable research instrument. The population of the study was one thousand, five hundred and five (1,505) employees, drawn from seventeen (17) selected indigenous oil and gas servicing firms, that are registered with the Petroleum Technology Association of Nigeria (PETAN) and their head offices in South-South, Nigeria. The sample size of three hundred and fifteen (315) respondents was derived using Taro Yamane Statistical Formula (1967), while the sample size for the individual firms for distribution of copies of questionnaire were generated through the use of Bowley’s (1964) Proportional Allocation Technique. However, from the total of three hundred and fifteen (315) copies of questionnaire administered to the respondents, only two hundred and sixty-six (266) copies were retrieved, out of which a total of two hundred and fifty (250) retrieved copies were considered useful for the analysis. The validity of the research instrument was carried out and approved by my supervisors while the reliability was determined using the Cronbach alpha statistics, with a threshold frequency of 0.70. Spearman’s Rank Order Correlation Coefficient (SROCC) was adopted to analyse the data; after being justified by the normality test, with the aid of the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS, 23.0) to analyze the hypothetical statements. The research findings revealed that empowerment has a positive and significant relationship with all the measures of employee agility studied. Based on the findings from the empirical analysis of the study, it was concluded that empowerment affects employees’ agility of indigenous oil and gas servicing firms in South-South, Nigeria. Therefore, it was recommended that management of indigenous oil and gas servicing firms should embrace employee empowerment strategies to improve the agility level of their employees for competitive advantage and higher productivity.
