Self-Awareness and Organizational Cynicism of oil and Gas Firms in South-South, Nigeria

Abstract

This paper investigated the relationship between self-awareness and organizational cynicism of oil and gas firms in South-South, Nigeria. The paper adopted a cross sectional research design. A total of one hundred and four management personnel comprises Human resource managers, Logistics/marketing managers, Operations managers and Account/finance managers were drawn from twenty-six selected oil and gas firms in the South-South, Nigeria constituted the population of the study. Census sampling method was adopted and the main data collection instrument for this study was structured questionnaire. A total of one hundred and four copies of the questionnaire were distributed, however ninety-six were retrieved while eight copies were not returned. Tables, percentages, Spearman’s Rank Order Correlation Coefficients and Statistical Package for Social Science version 23 were used for data presentation, analysis and testing of hypotheses to determine the relationship between self-awareness and organizational cynicism of oil and gas firms in South-South, Nigeria. The study discovered that there is positive and significant relationship between self-awareness and organizational cynicism. Managers need to consciously understand that people are move by feelings and certain events in the organization provoke certain behaviours either negative or positive. The study concluded that understanding the key factors that give rise to cynical dispositions and proactively addressing such factors early enough will reduce the occurrences of organizational cynicism in the oil and gas sector. The study therefore recommended that, the management of these oil and gas firms should promote a culture of open communication between the employees and management to discuss key and critical concerns that borders on equality, integrity, fairness in the distributions and allocation of favours and opportunities within the system in order to reduce cynicism in the workplace.