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Office Technology Skills Preferred By Employers In Some Selected Business Organization
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1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
For many years back much
attention has not been given to technological skills acquisition to
face the challenges of the modern day office or be able to assume
responsibility of the executive and perform the workers multiple roles. A
worker may be proficient in the general work and duties of her
profession such as taking notes in shorthand, transcribing it, keeping
and maintaining records but fails to possess the technological skills
she requires in the present office. It is very obvious that there has
been a great change in our business office compared to what was
obtainable about two decades ago.
Irrespective of the need for
improvement in office skills to meet with the changes in the office,
many workers are still unskilled technologically. Osuala (1981) stressed
the importance of secretarial skills as necessary tools for work and
the role of business education in imparting such skills. The worker is
expected to acquire the technological skills while on training but the
case is often that the modern machines are studied in isolation. Most
departments of business studies in some polytechnics are still ill
equipped.
According to Okorie (1994) Nigeria adopts the British
system of education but while Britain adopts a sound and visual method
in the training of her business students Nigeria only rely mostly on the
teacher’s power of speech.
However, most of the trainees of the
secretaries (lecturers) do not possess the technological skills to
impart on their students and as a result resort to the theoretical part
of it. This view is supported by Njoku (2002) when she said that the
years of the graduation of the lecturers greatly suggest that most of
them never saw nor made use of the modern office technology in the
course of training. Kalaus (1985) on commenting on the changing office
environment posited that many remarkable changes have occurred and are
still occurring in the office; changes that will not only affect future
operations and employees behaviour, but also programmes in business
education.
According to Sofolahun (1989) he said that the acquisition
of adequate workshop space in the absence of adequate supply of
qualified teacher amounts to failure.
This study therefore, became
necessary to determine the skills which the secretary is required to
possess in order to meet the modern technological development.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]This research work was carried out on the office technological skills preferred by employers in some selected business organization in Abia state. To achieve the aim of this study, questionnaire and review of related literature were employed as research tools. Data collected were analyzed using a 5-point linker scale, mean score and standard deviation. A mean of 3.0 and above was accepted as significant while factors less than 3.00 were rejected.It also showed the type of office technology skill ... Continue reading---
