Petroleum engineers--Nigeria

Nigeria is a country in a hurry for development, but the lack
of executive and technological capacity is a common phenomenon.
Efforts to provide the right climate for the development
and encouragement of indigenous expertise will go a long
way to enhance the job satisfaction of employees, particularly
petroleum engineers in the petroleum industry, an industry
requiring a high level technology and the largest national
revenue earner. Concepts of motivation were used as a starting
point to provide a broad integrative perspective to the
study of job satisfaction of Nigerian Petroleum Engineers.
Empirical results of comparison of job satisfaction of Petroleum
Engineers in the private and public petroleum companies
in Nigeria highlight the areas needing attention to improve
the job satisfaction of these engineers. The results also
show the general characteristics of the private petroleum
companies vis-a-vis the public petroleum companies as at the
time the study was made.