Analysis on Opito

OPITO CASE STUDY:

CASE STUDY:

Ø Mainly focuses on skill, learning and workforce development for the industry.

Ø Safe and competent work force.

Ø Career Opportunities.

Ø Contributes direct tax annually in excess of 10 billion pounds.

Ø Offshore and onshore activities.

Ø There aare different sectors.

o   Primary sector: extracting raw materials

o   Skills: Specific abilities, attributes and techniques

o   Competencies: areas of activity in which a firm is particularly strong.

o   Management: organizing human and physical resources to achieve business aims and objectives.

Ø Management & Leadership: Employee motivation and identifying the employee’s area of skills.

Ø Area of skills: Drilling, Welding, Logistics, Sales, Sales and emergency planning.

Ø Promote STEM: Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics.

Ø Skills & Aptitudes of Employee:  Technical & Scientific skills,

·       Human skills,

·       Practical Skills.

Ø Learning supply chain: Management flow from point of origin to point of consumption. (Raw materials, work-in-progress, inventory, finished goods)

Ø Management elements: HENRI FAYOL- Role of a manager: Planning

§  Controlling

§  Co-coordinating

§  Commanding

§  Organizing

Ø Primary Motivator: FW TAYLOR- Scientific approach: More money paid in wages, more work done, but this theory did not work for long.

Ø Types of managers:

·       Theory x: -

·       Managers feel that workers are:

o   Lazy and dislike work,

o   Motivated by money,

o   Avoid responsibility.

Theory y: -

o   Enjoy work

o   Motivated by range of factors such as esteem.

o   Make their own decisions.

Ø Management style

o   Autocratic: managers who take decisions without         consultation or discussion

o   Democratic: managers who attempts to gain the opinions of others before making decisions

o   Paternalistic: Where decisions are intended to be in the best interest of the workforce.

Ø Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

§  Self-Actualization

§  Social Needs

§  Basic Needs

MAJOR PROBLEMS:

Ø They follow AUTOCRATIC MANAGEMENT STYLE.

Ø If unskilled employee is employed, there will be unsafe condition in offshore.

Ø Difficult to cope with managers of Theory X in the company.

Ø Cause health problems

Ø Highly inflammable (easily catches fire) air which may cause death.

Ø SUB PROBLEMS:

·       Managers can achieve their objectives through staff only.

·       Psychological reasons of employees: Some were working hard and some were not just because of their wages.

·       PATERNALISTIC STYLE: Where managers won’t ask employee for suggestions.

Ø PERSPECTIVE:

o   JOBS: UK supports half a billion jobs.

o   Learning supply chain: Stimulates the movement of the people within the industry.

o   Job Roles: Wide range of job roles, both Offshore and Onshore.

Ø BEST SOLUTION:

o   Diverse range of staff: To ensure safety and best solution.

o   Encouraging young people: To consider oil & gas industry as an exciting career option.

o   Adopt DEMOCRATIC STYLE: To involve employees before reaching a decision.

Ø LEARNINGS:

o   Partnership with different organizations supports the industry’s development.

o   Collective interest

o   Mode of decision making

o   Benefits to young employee: Like boosting confidence and problem solving skills which ultimately will help organization to grow.

o   Appropriate Management Style: To ensure safety and best solutions of diverse range of staff.