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    Religion, socio-economic problems, land problems etc. are the main reasons that lead to conflict. But, recent study has come to show that an integral cause of conflict is a lack of resources; whether in a country, village, or even a business. Resources such as time, money and equipment are often scarce. Looking from a business perspective, when a certain group of employees get access to resources that others do not, conflict may arise among employees or between employees and management. And now a

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    Mobil was found in 1882 and is the largest producer of oil, natural gas and oil refineries in the world (Mobil, 2014). Shell is made of the Royal oil of Holland and the United Kingdom Mobil, and is the largest producer of oil, gas, and petrochemicals, and is the largest retailer of automotive fuels and lubricants (Shell, 2015). As two world's largest oil companies, Mobil and Shell play key roles in different areas, especially in the area of corporate social responsibility, which contains extensive

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    The documentary Big Men chronicles the story of foreign involvement and corruption in the oil and gas industry in West Africa. It juxtaposes an old oil exporter, Nigeria, and a new discoverer of oil, Ghana and highlights their connections to outside foreign investors as well as multinational corporations. The overarching theme of this documentary is to reveal the exploitation of natural resources by outsiders and centralized governments at the expense of the local populations. This paper will first

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    grounds? Once the questions were answered, the action I decided to take was to talk to the team member and warn her about the issue. If it was to continue, higher authority would be notified and then the actions would be much worse. It is not fair for Shell to pay someone when they are not at work and it is also not fair for other team members who are being honest about their time. This type of decision making skill is very important to have when a person is managing a business or team because each individual

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    The Help of Shell in the Niger Delta Region TABLE OF CONTENT  Introduction Shell is a group of oil and petrol companies. The parent company is Royal Dutch Shell, based in Britain, is a multinational corporation (MNC). The group of companies is active in countries all over the world, including Nigeria. The Federal Republic of Nigeria is extremely rich in oil resources. Rightly so, their business-connection goes back over fifty years. Likewise, a Shell company, the Shell Petroleum Development

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    is based in Houston, Texas. The company was created in 1999 through a merger of Exxon and Mobil. Both companies trace their roots back to Standard Oil, however, which was founded in 1870. Royal Dutch Shell was likewise created by a merger between Royal Dutch Petroleum of the Netherlands and Shell Transport & Trading of Britain. The company has annual revenue of over 400 billion dollars. BP was formerly known as British Petroleum, a name it had used since 1954. BP is based in London and has annual

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    the Netherlands and the "Shell" Transport and Trading Company of the United Kingdom were mergered and became Shell Company (“The Beginnings”shell.com, 2015). Before the merger of the two companies, the Royal Dutch Petroleum Company was a Holland Corporation, founded in 1890, and mainly engaged in oil field development. The "shell" transportation and trading company is a British company was founded in 1897 by Marcus Samuel, in 1833 “shell” expanded import and sale of sea-shells (Forsyth, 2011). At the

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    Corruption can be defined as the use of entrusted power to accumulate public wealthy for personal benefit. Corruption is not peculiar to any country, continent or state; it is sure a global issue which is an endemic to all government all over the world. However, corruption is prevalent in the Niger delta region of Nigeria; public officers in this oil producing state of Nigeria are corrupt. Consequently, it has defied the Niger delta from developing politically and economically which has left the

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    Royal Dutch Shell was founded in 1907 by the merging of 2 rival companies, Royal Dutch Petroleum Company of the Netherlands and Shell Transport and Trading Company Ltd of the United Kingdom. Today, with employment of more than 90,000 employees and operations in 70 different countries, Shell is among the major energy companies in the industries with advance technologies and approach to help build a maintainable energy for the future. Since 1891, Shell has been one of the largest foreign investors

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    Royal Dutch Shell Plc commonly known as Shell, is an Anglo–Dutch multinational oil and gas company headquartered in the Netherlands and incorporated in the United Kingdom.Created by the merger of Royal Dutch Petroleum and UK-based Shell Transport & Trading, it is the second largest company in the world, in terms of revenue,and one of the six oil and gas "supermajors". As of January 2013, the largest shareholder of the company was Capital Research Global Investors with a holding of 9.85% with BlackRockat

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