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.
