Petroleum Industry Case Study

Cairo University

Commerce Department-English Section

Master Business Administrator [MBA]

Business Administration Dept. – Second year

Term paper

Relationship between leadership styles and organization performance in petroleum sector in Egypt

(Case study in Oceaneering International, Inc.)

Done by

 Nahla Ali Mohamed Saleh

Under the Supervision of

Prof. Dr. / Ahmed Fahmy Galal Table of Contents

Abstract 3

1. Introduction 4

2. The nature of the studied organization 7

2.1. About Oceaneering International, Inc. (Background) 7

2.2. Vision & mission statement and slogan 7

2.3. Goals and objectives 7

2.4. Market share and position 8

2.4.1. Externally 8

2.4.2. Internally 10

2.5. Financial position 11

2.5.1. Selected financial data 12

Understanding the nature of company being studied in this paper (Oceaneering International Inc.) is very important to illustrate the reason of selecting it as our sampling frame. Oceaneering International Inc. is a leading petroleum service company all over the world; its market share and net income show that it has a big size of business in its field. Like most service company Oceaneering International Inc. business divided into two essential parts: operating and manufacturing activities.

Thus, our sample will cover those two parts of activities not only to study the correlation between leadership styles (transformational and transactional leadership styles) and organization performance in Oceaneering International Inc. as whole entity but also to measure how changing in the business atmosphere (such as, work structure, nature of environment and the required skills) will affect the impact / selecting of leadership style. In the following section, we conduct a background about Oceaneering International Inc. nature, its business, market share and performance

The nature of the studied organization

2.1. About Oceaneering International, Inc. (background)

Oceaneering is a global oilfield provider of engineered services and products primarily to the offshore oil and gas industry, with a focus on deepwater applications. Through using its applied technology expertise, Oceaneering also serves the defense, entertainment, and aerospace industries.

The company founded in 1964, and has grown from an air and mixed gas diving business in the Gulf of Mexico to a diversified, advanced applied technology organization operating around the world. Oceaneering achieved this growth by executing a plan of both internal research and development augmented by strategic acquisitions.

The company’s services and products to the oil and gas industry include remotely operated vehicles, built-to-order specialty hardware, engineering and project management, subsea intervention services, nondestructive testing and inspection, manned diving and mobile offshore production systems. The company has locations in the U.S. and 20 other countries. Its international operations are principally in the North Sea, West Africa, Brazil, Australia and Asia.

2.2. Vision & Mission statement and