MOTIVATION-SATISFACTION-PRODUCTIVITY TRIAD: THE MODERATING ROLE OF SAFETY CULTURE AMONG EMPLOYEESIN OIL AND GAS FIRMS IN NIGER DELTA, NIGERIA

Abstract

Government control on oil and gas industry has delayed full deregulation of the sector; consequently, policies regarding industry working conditions are not implemented and enforced to the later. This situation has reduced the potentials of the oil and gas industry productivity. In this study, we explored the motivation-satisfaction-productivity triad and the moderation of safety culture. The study attempts to illustrate how safety culture may improve motivation-satisfaction model, motivation-productivity model and satisfaction-productivity model. In the method section, we used correlation design which employed moderated regression statistical tool to analyze the survey data. The result shows that direct effect results for models 1,2 and 3 show that M significantly and positively predicted S and P at β(2, 624) = .46** and .37*, p < .001 respectively while S equally significantly predicted P at β(2,624) = .43*, p < .01. The indirect model accounted for the moderation of effects of Sc on the relationship of models M-Sc-S, M-Sc-P and S-Sc-P and the results were .35*, .33* and .25*, p < .01 respectively for the models. The result indicated that in the indirect effects, SC significantly and positively moderated M-S, M-P and S-P models thus showing evidence that SC in the presence of motivation and satisfaction enhances job, employee and organizational outcomes among employees in oil and gas industry. Also, the Anova model was significant at F (1, 625) = 94.2**, 42.4** and 39.6**, p.001, while the adjusted R square value for the models 1, 2 and 3 is .23, .11 and .09 respectively showing that the models contributed to 23%, 11% and 9% of the constructs. Findings imply that without improvement on the low level of motivation, employee dissatisfaction and low productivity will abound. The low levels of the motivation is attributable to poor safety culture current visible in Nigeria oil and gas industry which have are by-products of poor policy implementation and poor compliance to industry standards. The study recommends proactive union management to be of help to the teeming employees.