Description
ABSTRACT
This study aims at investigating the techniques being used by shell to avert and keep under control, the cases that frequently Ioccur between it and the host communities in which it carries out its oil exploration and production activities.
Apparently, problems have continued to exist in oil producing communities which is the nations treasure base owing to oil production and consequence under development in the area as witnessed in the communities where the operations exist and the entire oil producing communities as a whole is it ironically indeed the fact that the area is largely under developed and eh majority of Nigeria wealth comes from there.
In the process of finding out strategies employed by shell, the largest oil company operating in the oil producing communities, hypothesis bordering on the peoples perceptions of the situation the degree of shell’ is involvement the company’s public relation efforts relevance and satisfactory level were evaluated and recommendations proffered. These data were collected from questionnaires and interviews responses from indigenes of Port- Harcourt and shell public affair department staff. The findings were a bit more positive than negative.
PREFACE
In this life, every activity we indulge in is bound to affect the lives of others directly or indirectly favourably or otherwise.
In an age such as ours, where the dynamism of modern technologies, global economics and world populations are disputably unprecedented the attendant changes witnessed in the peoples lives attitudes and world perceptions are as odious as they vary.
These changes have found their way info communities today, on a narrower scope what with the numerous causes of crises inherent.
For oil producing communities the situation is volatile and the operating oil- exploration and production companies are left at the mercy of the indigenes. How then do the companies being the most accessible victims of raging communities, react to such crisis situation in order to quell or completely avert such incidents? The case of shell forms the backbone of this study.
The work lays claim to importance because the objectives, which seek to analyze the public relation strategies employed by shell. BP in avoiding very form of crises in the host communities should expose identified lapses from available statistics and recommend and possible solution or alternatives where necessary. Therefore the entire staff of shell – Nigeria, indigenes of the oil producing communities observes, the government of Nigeria at all levels, academics, students and social commentators should find this work useful.
Comprising five chapters, the first is the introduction, in which a background of eh study, problem, statement and objective of the study are expressed. The basic research questions importance of the work relevant theories and the definition of operational terms form the rest of the chapter.
Chapter two and three are the review of related literature to the study and the methods with which the researcher went about gathering relevant data for the study.
Chapter four shows that presentation, analysis and description of data available and also, the discussion of the result while chapter five is the summary of the work, conclusion and the presentation of recommendations.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Title page
Approval page
Dedication
Acknowledgement
Abstract
Table of contents
CHAPTER ONE
Introduction
1.1 Background study and history of case study
1.2 Statement of problem/ purpose of the study
1.3 Significant of the study
1.4 Research questions
1.5 Scope
1.6 Definition of terms
References
CHAPTER TWO
2.0 Review of Literature
CHAPTER THREE
3.0 Research methodology
3.1 Research design
3.2 Areas of study
3.3 Population and sample of study
3.4 Method of data analysis
CHAPTER FOUR
4.0 data analysis and presentation
4.1 analyses
CHAPTER FIVE
5.0 Summary,
5.1 Recommendation
5.2 Conclusion
Bibliography