OWHORJI, Sunday
Department of Management, Faculty of Management Sciences, River State University,
Nkpolu Oroworukwo, Port Harcourt
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OLOMI, Progress Ovunda
Department of Management, Faculty of Management Sciences, River State University,
Nkpolu Oroworukwo, Port Harcourt
progressolomi@gmail.com
ABSTRACT
This study examined the relationship between job enrichment and employee self-efficacy of indigenous oil and gas servicing companies in South-South, Nigeria. The specific objectives were to examine the relationship between job enrichment, employee emotional self-efficacy and cognitive self-efficacy of indigenous Oil and Gas Servicing companies in South-South, Nigeria. The cross sectional survey research design was adopted. The study population was based on 26 indigenous Oil and Gas Servicing companies operating in the South-South, Nigeria. Total population of 332 (Three Hundred and Thirty-Two) comprising of 26 functional indigenous Oil and Gas Servicing companies in the south-south, Nigeria while 181 employees were sampled for the study in line with the objectives of the study. Descriptive statistics was used for ascertaining the univariate distribution of the data for each while Spearman’s rank order correlation coefficient was used in determining the bivariate relationship between the variables and test of hypotheses. The results of the study showed that Job Enlargement have a very strong and positive relationship with Employee Emotional and Cognitive Self Efficacy development. This study recommends among others that; management should Job enrichment techniques should also be embraced as way of getting employees to develop their cognitive self-efficacy. Management of the oil and gas companies should also embrace Job rotation as a job design technique that could be used to make employees gain personal development at work.
Keywords: Job enrichment, Employee emotional self-efficacy, Cognitive self-efficacy