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

Jack Pegram,Athanasios Kolios,Gioia Falcone

doi:10.3390/en11102779

Abstract

Job role localization is a strategic local content solution used by countries bearing natural resource stocks to maximize the long-term benefits of exploring and producing them. Currently, there is significant variation in how countries and organizations plan and implement local content and job role localization strategies; hence, this paper aims to gather, classify, and discuss relevant literature with a view to identify best practices for future application. After a multi-dimensional discussion of key terms relevant to the topic, the drivers and theoretical underpinnings of local content are examined, followed by an assessment of job role localization literature qualifying enablers and barriers to localization. A critical discussion on the means of evaluating local content policies summarizes the findings of this critical review.

Highlights

Job role localization (JRL) is the replacement of expatriates by competent host country nationals [1].JRL has significant business benefits; achieving successful JRL has major challenges.Within the oil and gas (O&G) industry JRL is increasingly becoming an imperative for O&G companies.Worldwide, O&G companies are required to localize job roles in order to comply with the host government’s local content legislations
Local content legislations are employed to encourage value-addition to the economy by enabling cross-sector linkages, increasing local participation and avoiding negative economic impacts associated with O&G activities
JRL is required of O&G companies as an approach to increase the number of local people employed within the sector

Summary

Introduction

Job role localization (JRL) is the replacement of expatriates by competent host country nationals [1].JRL has significant business benefits; achieving successful JRL has major challenges.Within the oil and gas (O&G) industry JRL is increasingly becoming an imperative for O&G companies.Worldwide, O&G companies are required to localize job roles in order to comply with the host government’s local content legislations. Job role localization (JRL) is the replacement of expatriates by competent host country nationals [1]. JRL has significant business benefits; achieving successful JRL has major challenges. Within the oil and gas (O&G) industry JRL is increasingly becoming an imperative for O&G companies. O&G companies are required to localize job roles in order to comply with the host government’s local content legislations. Local content legislations are employed to encourage value-addition to the economy by enabling cross-sector linkages, increasing local participation and avoiding negative economic impacts associated with O&G activities. JRL is required of O&G companies as an approach to increase the number of local people employed within the sector

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