Critical Literature Review On Job Satisfaction

Critical Literature Review on Job Satisfaction, Organization Commitment and Stress among Offshore Oil and Gas Platform Employees

1. Introduction

The critical literature review focuses on multinational oil and gas companies in the field of human resource management (HRM). The purpose of this study is to identify the level of job satisfaction, organization and stress on multinational corporations’ oil and gas platform employees.

Multinational Corporation (MNC) is described as an organization that has headquarter to coordinate the branch offices and factories which have their own amenities and assets in different nations (Investopedia, 2016). The multinational of oil and gas corporation can be illustrated by an example of Royal Dutch Shell. The

As stated by Rig Life (2010), “companies in the oil industry operate at well-sites in some of the toughest environment from earth: the heat of Middle Eastern deserts to the extreme cold of the Arctic region to the hostile water of the North Sea”. The offshore workers may experience hardship especially work environment. Nevertheless, oil and gas industries have the responsibility to guarantee the work environment is clean, safe and healthy based on the international standard and guidelines (Abdul Khalique, 2016).

2. Literature Review

This case study demonstrates a clear and concise concept about the job satisfaction, organization commitment and stress. From this critical literature review, readers able to understand the relationship between job satisfaction, organization commitment and stress in the oil and gas industry. In the aspect of human resource management, job satisfaction able to show its positive interconnection with organization commitment but stress has the negative impact on both job satisfaction and organization commitment (Haryanni Harun et al., 2014).

2.1 Job

In the positive aspect of physical environment stressor, the offshore worker able to acquire the new knowledge and skills, participate in the challenging tasks, practice in managing finances and improve the standard of living, gain both job security and career prospect (Hellesoy, 1985). Meanwhile, in the negative aspect, the feeling of anxiety, depression, and pressure may arise due to numerous of issues such as transportation with helicopter, social or organization factor, confined spaces, long working hours, absence of amenities, and adaption between time on and time off rigs (Hellesoy,