A Review of Job Role Localization in the Oil and Gas Industry

Pegram, Jack; Falcone, Gioia; Kolios, Athanasios

doi:10.3390/en11102779

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“…Potter (1989) defined localization as the practice of replacing expatriates with locals who have the capabilities to perform as efficient as expatriate staff (Law et al, 2009). According to Pegram et al (2018), localization within the HR literature refers to the replacement of expatriate management staff by competent local people. Governments in some countries have employed several strategies and policies to replace expatriates with nationals (Mellahi & Al-Hinai, 2000) including education and training of the native workforce coupled with government tools of quotas, incentives, and partnership programs for private sector organisations (Williams, 2014).…”

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Predictors and Outcomes of Successful Localization in the Aviation Industry: The Case of Oman

Alkathiri

Elbaz

Shah

et al. 2021

Advances in Hospitality and Tourism Research (AHTR)

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Localization has encountered substantial focus in academia as well as practice; however, scarce studies have empirically examined this theme within tourism-related sectors in Oman, including the aviation sector. That is why the purpose of this paper is to develop and test an integrated model of the key predictors and outcomes of successful localization within the aviation industry. It also evaluates the mediating role of knowledge sharing ability between human resources development (HRD) practices and localization as well as the moderating effect of organizational commitment on the link between localization and firm performance. This paper is based on primary data collected from 194 employees operating in the national aviation sector in Oman. Based on PLS-SEM, the results indicated that HRD practices (i.e., training, performance appraisal, and rewards) have a positive impact on expatriates' ability to share knowledge with national staff, and thus positively

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Predictors and Outcomes of Successful Localization in the Aviation Industry: The Case of Oman

Alkathiri

Elbaz

Shah

et al. 2021

Advances in Hospitality and Tourism Research (AHTR)

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“…The independent variables were the responses to the 20 questions. The questions were based on the extensive literature review reported [2]. Part 3 included three open-ended qualitative questions which sought opinions, examples and experiences associated to JRL successes, barriers and recommendations.…”

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“…It is a strategic local content solution used by countries bearing natural resource stocks to maximize the long-term benefits of exploring and producing them. A recent article [2] presented an extensive review of existing literature on local content and localization in the oil and gas (O&G) sector, highlighting how O&G companies have traditionally struggled with the effective measurement, monitoring, and planning of local content and localization. Understanding, evaluating, and explaining the results from metrics is challenging because local content issues are often intangible.…”

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Quantitative and Qualitative Assessment of Job Role Localization in the Oil and Gas Industry: Global Experiences and National Differences

Pegram¹,

Falcone

Kolios

2019

Energies

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Job role localization is the replacement of expatriates by competent host country nationals. This study investigates the viability of localizing job roles in the oil and gas industry in two stages. The first stage addresses the global level using a survey about local content issues. The second stage focuses on the national level using interviews to investigate how national factors can affect job role localization in Ghana, one of Africa’s oil and gas producing nations. The findings show that different stakeholders often share opinions about local content issues. At the national level there are many national context specific factors that affect job role localization including legislations, culture, attitudes and experience within the labour market. This study finds that localization is becoming increasingly prevalent worldwide. Oil and gas companies must adapt their localization strategies to the national context where they are operating.

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“…Some local people are employed in the natural gas activities; however, they are few of them who are working at a high level due to low skills and experience (Pegram et al, 2018) The government and other stakeholders put their efforts in providing expertise to the local experts on the natural gas sector expertise (The Minister of Energy, 2018)…”

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A literature survey of community participation in the natural gas sector in developing countries

Bishoge

Zhang

Mushi³

et al. 2019

IJESM

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Purpose This paper aims to analyze the context of community opinions and participation in the natural gas sector in developing countries, a case study of Tanzania. To achieve this purpose, the study pointed out six facts, namely, information on the natural gas sector; awareness of the natural gas-related policies; laws and regulations and the creation of employment opportunities; local experts in the natural gas sector; the use of natural gas revenues; and natural gas for poverty reduction and improvement of social well-being. Design/methodology/approach The study is a systematic review of the literature on community participation based on the relevant studies published between 2010 and 2018. A comprehensive literature review was carried out following the seven-step model whereby relevant themes from different potential bibliographic databases such as Google Scholar were systematically selected, compiled and analyzed using descriptive methods. Findings The study revealed that despite the various efforts made by the governments and other stakeholders to promote community participation, there is an inadequate level of community participation in the natural gas sector in developing countries. There are limited local experts for natural gas operations and low transparency on natural gas contracts, agreements and revenues. Therefore, there is the need to raise awareness for a highly informed society with a clear sense of ownership of the natural gas wealth among the local communities. Moreover, transparency and accountability are recommended for the sustainable natural gas sector development. Originality/value This paper offers new and current cross-sectoral inclusion, opinions, hopes and concerns of the community on the natural gas sector management in developing countries.

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A Review of Job Role Localization in the Oil and Gas Industry

Cited by 11 publications

References 100 publications

Predictors and Outcomes of Successful Localization in the Aviation Industry: The Case of Oman

Predictors and Outcomes of Successful Localization in the Aviation Industry: The Case of Oman

Quantitative and Qualitative Assessment of Job Role Localization in the Oil and Gas Industry: Global Experiences and National Differences

A literature survey of community participation in the natural gas sector in developing countries

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