Human Resource Management in Petroleum Industry in The light of Governing Strategic Values in Energy Sector

The Human Resources as the strategic resource for petroleum industry play a vital role in strategic planning and human resources management. The principles and values governingenergy sector are fundamental issues to be necessarily considered for a comprehensive strategic planning. To examine such values from Human resources Managementpoint of view this paper looked at the most important related laws and documents to extract the strategic values to realize and clear the trends, policies and preferences.Therefore in the light of: Iran's 20-Year Vision Plan, General Policies of the System, The Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Iranian Plan and Budget Code, Petroleum Acts, etc, this paper attempted to study the aforementioned values in petroleumsector to achieve the aforementioned goals and to pave the way for other researchers to explore further about the issue in oil and gas industries in Iran as one of the most important Middle Eastern countries located in Persian Gulf