HIGH-TECH MANAGERS RATINGS OF HARDWARE TRAINING NEEDS OF OFFICE EDUCATION GRADUATES FOR AUTOMATED OFFICE IN DELTA STATE
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The need to improve the quality of office education graduates for the modern day automated office informed the study to determine high technology managers ratings of hardware training needs of office education graduates for automated office in Delta State. One research question guided the study and two hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. The design of the study was descriptive survey research design. The area of the study was Delta State, Nigeria. The population
comprised 114 High Technology managers in Delta State. The entire population was studied without sampling due to the size. A5-point rating scale questionnaire was used to collect data for the study. Reliability of the instrument was determined through pilot test and data analysed using Cronbach alpha reliability test. The reliability test yielded co-efficient value of 0.87. Mean and standard deviation were used to analyze data in relation to research questions and to check the closeness or otherwise of the respondents’ response to the mean while Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and z-test was used in testing the null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. Findings revealed that office education graduates need training on hardware skills. Based on these findings, it was recommended
among others that office educators should be given in-service training in the use of hardware tools to facilitate the teaching and learning process.
Keywords: Hardware, Training Needs, Office Education, Graduates andAutomated Office
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