KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATIONAL COMPETITIVENESS OF OIL AND GAS FIRMS IN RIVERS STATE

Abstract

The study investigated knowledge management and organizational competitiveness of oil and gas firms in Rivers State. Population of the study comprised five oil and gas firms in Rivers State. 133 workers were chosen as sample for the study. Pearson Product Moment Correlation |Coefficient was used to test all the hypotheses. Findings revealed among others that knowledge generation has a positive correlation with organizational competetivess. One of the recommendations put forward is that the management of the oil and gas servicing companies in Rivers State should ensure that they are consistent in their effort to generate or create enough knowledge of how to be innovative among their employees either by sponsoring them to go out learn or bring someone in to teach them.