THE CHALLENGES OF OFFICE MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGY PROFESSION IN THE MODERN TECHNOLOGICAL ERA

THE CHALLENGES OF OFFICE MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGY PROFESSION IN THE MODERN TECHNOLOGICAL ERA

ABSTRACT

This research is focused on the challenges of OFFICE MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGY profession in the modern technological era. The main purpose of this research was to find out the OFFICE MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGY profession, the teaching and learning of internet skills, the teaching and learning of Management information skills, the teaching and learning of data processing skills. Four research questions were formulated and questionnaires were used to obtain data from the population of 60. From the data analysis the following findings were made: that modern Technology plays important role in the OFFICE MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGY profession in polytechnics, that the the challenges of OFFICE MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGY profession in the modern technological era include acquisition of new ideas, helps in training of students in distance areas, provide teachers with current teaching aids among others. That modern Technology helps in the teaching and learning creation of document, storage of document, retrieval of document, disposal of document and protection of document, all these are the challenges of modern Technology in Information Management system. That the challenges of modern Technology in the teaching and learning of data processing skills includes; the teaching and learning of calculation skills, sorting of data, classification of data, recording of data and the teaching and learning of storing of data.

The functions of the OFFICE MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGY profession has changed drastically at present due to largely to the introduction of modern Technology in offices. The use of new machines like computers, facsimile, automatic typewriters, word processes etc has generated new business abilities and new job opportunities for OFFICE MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGY Profession.

THE CHALLENGES OF OFFICE MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGY PROFESSION IN THE MODERN TECHNOLOGICAL ERA