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Investigation Into The Consequences Of Office Technologies In Secretarial Education Curriculum In Nigerian Polytechnics
[A CASE STUDY OF INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT AND TECHNOLOGY, ENUGU]
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1.4 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
Technological development
has taken a rather tremendous new dimension since the middle of this
century. According to Ndubuisi (1981), since there is need to promote
interest in more and advanced technology, provision should also be made
for institution and Nation as a whole, curriculum planners and business
world.
By finding out the effects of consequences of office
technology on the secretarial educations curriculum in our polytechnics
especially the Institute of Management and Technology, Enugu all that
are involved in the training of these category of professionals and the
curriculum planners, will be able to adjust their curricula and course
contents to suit the needs of the expanding technological business
world. Their products, the students secretaries would then be prepared
well enough to enter the new world of automated offices and still face
squarely the challenges inherent in high technological environments
without fear of retrenchment.
The study will among other things,
serve as a guide to the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) in
determining these new trends that are destined to become an integral
part of business studies and include same in the program/school
syllabus.
Finally, the country and the business parastatals will also
benefit from this study since the school of business has been producing
very proficient and marketable personnel that will stand the vigorous
test of time through updated planned curricula, especially in this era
of technological advancement.
1.5 RESEARCH QUESTIONS
In order to
obtain more purposeful and significant results from the data analysis,
the following questions will be tested in the course of the study.
a.
What are the consequences of office technologies in the Secretarial
Education Curriculum in Institute of Management and Technology (I.M.T),
Enugu?
b. Is the Institute prepared to meet up with the consequences
in training students for today’s and future sophisticated technological
office environment?
c. What effect have the frequent changes in curriculum brought to the secretarial Studies Department?
d.
Being aware of the technological changes in the country do you think
the frequent changes will have any effect in your career as secretaries?
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]This study was carried out to discover the possible consequences posed by the office technologies in secretarial education curriculum in Nigeria Polytechnics. This study was conducted using the Institute of Management and Technology (I.M.T) Enugu as a case study.The instrument used for data collection was the questionnaire and literature review, while a total of four research question were also posed.The information collected from the respondents were analyzed using simple percentage method and ... Continue reading---
