ABSTRACT

The desire to write on this particular topic “The Importance of Computer to Secretarial Profession in Business Organization grew out of the Present significant roles. It plays secretaries day to day activities, secretaries therefore as the stronghold should equip themselves with the computer. This project report is going to be useful and helpful to studying data processing as a major course in the universities and polytechnics. However, I have taken the pain to present this project report in a tense and simple language, so as to make it readable and comprehensive to any of the users, to achieve the aim the researcher look into such as; whether the secretaries with computer knowledge are able to serve much time and increased productivity. Whether the services rendered by the secretaries with computer in any organization can achieve their set out goals, objectives and aspirations. Whether the assistance of computer in our secretarial duties would be able to increase feasibility. Whether the computer helps the secretary perform specialized duties in the office with which they contribute to the attainment of organization goals. Whether the secretaries using computer to perform administration functions in the addition to their specialized secretarial functions, hence they can be elevated to administrative posts.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Title page                                                                        i

Approval page                                                                 ii

Dedication                                                                       iii

Acknowledgement                                                           iv

Abstract                                                                          v

Abstract                                                                          vi

Table of contents                                                            vii

List of tables                                                                   ix

CHAPTER ONE

1.0      INTRODUCTION                                                   1

1.1      Background of the Study                                       1

1.2      Statement Of Problem                                            11

1.3      Purpose Of Study                                                    12

1.4      Limitation And The Scope Of The Study                13

1.5      Significance Of The Study                                      13

1.6      Definition Of The Terms                                 14

1.7      Research Questions                                                14

CHAPTER TWO

2.0     LITERATURE REVIEW                                          16

2.1      Definition of Computer                                           17

2.2      Types of Computer                                                  18

2.3      Definition of a Secretary                                         21

2.4      Computer In The Secretary’s Office                       22

2.5      Different Computer Training For Secretary           24

2.6      Impact Of Computer training To Secretaries         26

2.7      Summary Of Literature Review                             27

2.8      Uses and Effects on the Function of

Secretarial Profession                                             29

2.9      Uses of Computer                                                   30

2.10   Advantages of Computer                                       30

2.11   Disadvantages of Computer                                  31

2.12   Organization of a simple digital                            32

CHAPTER THREE

METHODOLOGY                                                   34

3.1      Research Design                                                     34

3.2      Area of the Study                                                    34

3.3      Population of the Study                                          35

3.4      Sample/Sample Techniques                                  35

3.5      Instrument for Data Collection                              36

3.6      Validity of the Instrument                                      37

3.7      Reliability of the Instrument                                  37

3.8      Method of Data Collection                                      38

3.9      Method Of Data Analysis                                         38

3.10  Decision Rule                                                          39

CHAPTER FOUR

4.0  DATA PRESENTATION AND ANALYSIS            40

4.1   Presentation and analysis                                      40

Summary of the Findings                                       48

CHAPTER FIVE

DISCUSSIONS, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION

5.1      Discussion of Findings                                            50

5.2      Conclusion                                                              51

5.3      Recommendations                                                  52

5.4      Suggestion for Further Studies                              54

5.5        Limitations of the Study                                       54

Reference:                                                               57

Appendix 1                                                              58

LIST OF TABLES

Table 4.1:        As a secretarial profession, do you

 use computer in your daily work?         40

Table 4.2:         If yes what type of computer do you

use?                                                        41

Table 4.3:        Has the use of computer

helped accomplishment of your job

as a secretarial staff?                             42

Table 4.4:        How far has computer helped

in accomplishment of your

secretarial profession?                           43

Table 4.5:        Does computer facilitate the secretarial

function in your organization?               44

Table 4.6:        Did your organization install other

computer equipment for the staff?         45

Table 4.7:        Are you computer literature?                46

Table 4.8:        Does these computer equipment

reduce your working hours?                  46

Table 4.9:        Is computer training compulsory

Among the training needs in

your organization?                                 47

Table 4.10:      Have you been sent on training

for computer literacy?                            48

CHAPTER ONE

3.0     INTRODUCTION

3.1      Background of the Study

A secretary is a person who has a wide knowledge into the art and science of handling office correspondence and machines. In other words, a secretary is that person who has under gone secretarial courses and having the knowledge to operate all office machine available, such as typewriter, franking machines, adding machines, duplication machines etc. He or she also received information, makes calls, receives calls either within or outsides the organization. It is important to identify the functions a secretary performs in the modern business world, by this we would be able to appreciate the role computer plays in secretarial activities.

Computer has been defined by many authors and computer analysis as an electronic device that has the ability of automatically accepting data, applying sequence of process to data, store and automatically execute a program of instructions and supplying the results of the process. Computer evolved as results of man’s search for fast, accrual calculating devices. But it will be wrong to think that computers just arrived unto sense of secretarial profession and organization. Computer comes into existence between 15th and 16th century. The first known data processing devices consisted of the use of fingers, stones and sticks for counting on a string, Socrates on a rock and abacus as keeping devices. In addition, a follow-up development on the data processing was the introduction of manual computer and machinery to perform arithmetic and science operations, but with the dynamic nature of business worlds. Its importance has been stretched beyond these spheres of operations, but business offices or organizations and even to private homes.

The introduction of computers and machines to perform arithmetic operations is often attributed to blaze passels of France and Volition of Germany in the seventeenth century A.D. In order to honor blaze Pascal, the programming language was named after him, Pascal with the introduction of electronic computer since then a series of radical breakthrough, the computers based upon the order form of electronics have been replaced by a new “generation of computer based upon a new form of electronics.

3.2      Importance of Computer

Until the evolution of computers into the sense of industries, most duties were performed manually but after the introduction of computer, most of jobs that were carried out traditionally now become computerized such computer has its own unique code. Computer is an important management tool for the following reasons;

a.          It performs operation quickly

b.          It stores data compactly

c.