ABSTRACT

This study investigated the relationship between total productive maintenance and performance of oil producing and exploration companies in Nigeria. The objectives of the study include to determine the effect of autonomous maintenance on effective employee performance, focused improvement on efficient operations performance, planned maintenance on profitability, quality maintenance on customer satisfaction, education and training on business performance, and examine the extent institutional culture influence total productive maintenance and performance of the oil companies. The researcher used both primary and secondary sources of data and employed descriptive survey design in the study. A structured Likert Scale questionnaire was the major instrument for data collection drawn from 212 respondents from a total of 612 workers in the specified population frame. Validity for the study was assessed based on content and face validity, while reliability was assessed using the Cronbach alpha reliability coefficient. The study employed descriptive statistics of percentages, mean and standard deviation for analysis of data obtained by way of questionnaire administration while a total of 6 hypotheses were tested using the Spearman’s rank order correlation coefficient for the bivariate hypotheses and the partial correlation coefficient for the multivariate hypothesis. The analysis was done with SPSS software. The findings  from the tests reveal that total productive maintenance through dimensions such as autonomous maintenance, focused improvement, planned maintenance, quality maintenance, education and training, significantly contribute towards outcomes of performance such as effective employee performance, efficient operations performance, profitability, customer satisfaction and business performance. The findings also show that institutional culture plays a key role in advancing the relationship between total productivity maintenance and performance of the oil producing firms. On the basis of these results all hypothesized statements were rejected. The researcher concluded that Total Productive Maintenance enhances overall performance of oil producing and exploration companies in Nigeria. It was recommended that management of Oil producing and explorations companies should implement Total Productive Maintenance in their organizations to enable them ensure efficient machine maintenance and enhance performance.  It was also recommended that daily machine maintenance activities and other pillars of TPM should be embedded in the culture of the organizations.