Entrepreneurial skills required by Polytechnic OTM graduates for small scale businesses Department: Office Technology and Management By: Vivicliff Project ID: 3305 Rating: (3.3) votes: 6Rate this project12345 Price:₦3000 Get the Complete MaterialAbstractIt is imperative to conduct regular analysis in designing and implementing any functional curriculum. Therefore, educational processes must consider the needs of the society and the individuals in its service delivery. The business world in recent times has witnessed a lot of changes especially with the advent of information technology leading to newer methods of doing things. The office of any business organization is at the center of these changes. Hence, the major purpose of the study was to identify the office work skills required of NCE office education graduates in the modern office as perceived by employers. A structured questionnaire validated by experts in business education was used as an instrument for data collection. The population of the study consisted of 240 respondents made up of 143 and 97 respondents from the public and private sectors. Five research questions and five hypotheses were answered and tested at a 0.05 level of significance. Among other things, the study revealed that the various skills identified by the study are a cluster of word processing office work skills, communication office work skills, interpersonal/human relation office work skills, management/supervisory office work skills, and bookkeeping/accounting office work skills were all required office work skills by NCE office education graduates in the modern office. Based on the findings, it was recommended that the curriculum of the official education program be reviewed to accommodate these identified skills. Training and retraining, workshops, seminars, were also recommended for the trainers especially in the areas of information technology....Preview Download Preview +Other Office Technology and Management project topics and materials you might be interested in»Causes and effects of leakages of confidential information in business organization»The impact of modern office equipment on the secretary’s performance (A case study of Owerri municipal) »Effect of good filing system on productivity of a secretary (a case study of staff personnel in federal polytechnic Nekede, Owerri)»The impact of modern office machines on secretaries»Office skill competencies needed by secretaries for effective job performance»Effect of poor communication skills on the performance of secretaries in an organization (A case study of Nigeria Agip oil company, Port Harcourt, Rivers state) »Gender differences and similarities in career choice among secretarial administration students»Impact of information and communication technology (ICT) on secretarial performance in public service in Owerri municipal»Factors affecting students' performance in shorthand»Emerging challenges facing office technology and management students in information technology era»Professional ethics required of office manager in a changing office environment (A case study of selected institutions in Owerri, Imo state) »The effect of technological advancement on the job performance of office managers»Human relations skills required of office technology and management graduates in business organization»The challenges facing newly employed secretaries in selected ministries in Imo state»The impact of automation on the performance of secretaries (A case study of the west Africa examination council, WAEC, Enugu)