EMTH6013 Emerging Themes Spring 2019

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Emerging Themes
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Emerging Themes:
The term emerging themes describes a particular important thing. In this case the
emerging theme is related with a project of African Oil and Gas. Identifying the emerging
themes will help to understand the business technique more professionally (Bogers et al.
2017). With identifying the emerging themes brief description of the identified emerging
themes will be provided in this document. Also, the examples of some business will be given
which has successfully adopted the emerging themes. With that the futuristic impact of the
emerging themes will be discussed in this article. Finally a critical evaluation will be given on
the implication of such type of impacts on the strategy planning.
Evaluation of the key emerging themes:
In the evaluation of the key emerging themes of the African oil and gas industry four
pillars of the emerging themes will be discussed. This four pillars are the emerging changes
in the society, emerging work environments, emerging technologies in the oil and gas
industry and the emerging industries and markets in the context of oil and gas industry. In the
case of the emerging changes in the society the main assessed emerging change in the society
is the diversity of the culture. Diversity in the culture occurred due to the different type of
expertise are coming to the East African region from other countries to work in the oil and
gas industries of the eastern region of the Africa (Banks 2015). The cultural diversity has
some own benefits of its. It can increase the productivity of the organization in which it is
adopted and in this case it is the oil and gas industry of the Eastern Africa. In the oil and gas
industry of the Eastern Africa, the cultural diversity is also helping in to increase the
creativity in the organization and increasing the profits. Also, it is having other several
benefits like the better engagement between the employees and better reputation of the
company. In the case of the futuristic impact of the cultural diversity it will help the oil and

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gas industry of the Eastern Africa to grow further. The outsource expertise will help the local
peoples to learn new technologies which will be more helpful for the organization. Thus
productivity of the oil and gas industry in the Easter Africa will increase heavily in the next
five years. To adopt this cultural diversity some HR strategies need to be implemented in the
organization which are the open mind behaviour to all, spreading the knowledge of the
cultural background of the African region, maintaining personal touch and reviewing the non-
verbal communication.
The next pillar of the emerging theme is the emerging work environment. In this
emerging work environment the emerging theme is the various proposed laws in the oil and
gas industry by the Eastern African countries. The Mozambique country has proposed law in
the sector of the oil and gas to make the legal framework transparent to the investors in this
business field. Also, in Uganda the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development through the
Petroleum Exploration and Production Department is promoting and regulating the gas and
oil industry. The government of the Uganda has proposed various laws to for the
development of the petroleum industry which will improve the working environment of the
employees (Raziq and Maulabakhsh 2015). In this context the government of the Nigeria has
introduced income tax act which will help the government to collect the proper tax. This
identified emerging themes will impact the work environments of the organization by
satisfying the workers of the organization. Also the changes in the taxation rules will help the
government to generate more revenue. As concerned with the future implication of this
emerging work environment it will benefit the organization by transparent legal framework
(Hepple 2014). This will attract more investments form the outside which will surely help in
the growth of the organizations in next five years. Also, the new policies will help to ensure
the job satisfaction of the employees of the organization. Further the taxation policies will
help to generate more revenue which can be used for the overall development of the county

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itself. There are some strategies which need to be implemented for attracting the investments.
These strategies are the creation of value added jobs, boosting the competiveness and
enhancing the skill based host economies. The strategies for the job satisfaction are the
improved communication, reducing the micromanagement, reducing the time stress and
creating an employee recognition program. For the better tax collection the strategies are
using the simple segmentation for identification of the larger collection opportunities,
updating the registry of the taxpayers and focusing on the resources of improved auditing,
tools and processes.
The next pillar of the emerging theme is the emerging technologies. The main
assessed emerging technology in this case is the development of the offshore infrastructure.
In the Mozambique there are offshore block development of 8.5% around the USD of 1.7
billion. The offshore development has been agreed in the year of 2012 between the Anadarko
and Eni. In Kenya the first offshore block acquired by the Anadarko in the year of 2009. In
South Africa there are interest with the offshore development with the new entrants. In Ghana
monetization of the gas processing plants is done from the offshore fields (Teixeira et al.
2013). Presently this offshore developments are helping the oil and gas industry to produce
more oil and gas averagely on per day basis. This will boost the economy of the industry and
the country. Considering the future implication of the offshore oil rigging development, it
will help to create new jobs in this regions thus the economy in next five years will be
boosted (League 2013). Also, it will create a unique habitat in the ocean environment. This
also helps to increase the production in the oil and gas industry. The main strategies required
to be implemented for the offshore development and rigging is the integrated preventive
safety strategy. The other strategies are focusing on the major hazard risks, involving the
workforce and the assessment of the environmental impacts.

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The last pillar of the emerging theme is the emerging industries and markets. In this
case the main assessed emerging industry is the petroleum industry in the East African region
and the emerging markets are the countries in the Eastern African region. According to the
OECD it is expected that the Mozambique will be fourth largest LNG exporter in the world in
next few years. In present the Nigeria is the second largest Liquefied Natural Gas exporter in
the world and first in the African region (Fisher 2015). Also, it has been expected that the
export of the Liquefied Natural Gas will start in the year of the 2020 which will make the
Tanzania another important market in the oil and gas industry. For the present impact of
emerging markets the customers or the consumers will be mostly benefitted as the overall
price of the petroleum products will fall. It is the only merit in this case that the price of the
petroleum products will fall. The demerit in this case is that the new players in the oil and gas
industry will face some problems as the competition will be huge due to the arrival of the
new markets. When considering the long term impact, the main impact is the reduction of the
price of petroleum products. In this case the most benefitted stakeholder will be the
consumers of the oil and gas products. Another benefitted stakeholder will be the
Government as various external investments are coming to the country (Sueyoshi and Wang
2014). In this case the strategic planning will be setting clear goals, market research, study of
the competition, choosing the mode of the entry and determining the financial needs.

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