Examining stakeholders engagement influence on project execution success in the oil and gas project in Sanzule
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SEPTEMBER, 2018
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In recent times businesses aim are not only to meet the needs and desire of its stakeholder but
also have an array of addressing their competing interests. Hence, how business can operate in
this increasingly challenging stakeholder environment is touted to be essential to both business
and project sustenance. Accordingly, this study explored how stakeholder engagement
influences project execution success at Sanzule in the Ellembelle District of the Western
Region. The study aims at establishing the challenges that constrained the exploration company
in managing their stakeholder engagement and identify key measures to employ by the
company to address the difficulties associated with their stakeholders’ management in the
Sanzule project. The study adopted Stratified sampling, the population came from both the
internal (management team of the company and Sanzule community) as well as the external
stakeholders (i.e., state agencies and civil society groups). The sample size for the strata stood
at one hundred and seven (108). The sample size for management team was twenty-one (21).
The community members were Eighty-three (83), and the sample size for the district assembly
and the NGO group sample size stood at four (4) each. The study adopted both the quantitative
and qualitative. The responses were analyzed using descriptive statistics such as mean whereas
the interview data was analyzed using content analysis. Findings from the study suggested that
the implementing organization equitably informed leaders of the community about the purpose
of the company on their land but afterward failed to involve them in the day to day the project
implementation. Again, the study identified that the inability of the exploration company to
understand the local context situations made it difficult for them to adapt their engagement
strategies and approaches to reflect that of the local conditions. Accordingly, on this score it is
recommended to the management of the exploration company first seek to understand the
‘intangibles’ parts of communities thus, customs and traditions of the host community before
commencing any exploration activities in their next future
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A thesis submitted to the Institute of Distance Learning, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Science.
Keywords
Examining, Stakeholders Engagement, Project Execution Success, Oil and Gas Project, Sanzule