Graduates' E-Competencies Required For Maximum Productivity in the 21st Century Office

Abstract

The study examined graduates' e-competencies required for maximum productivity in the 21st century office. One purpose of the study, a corresponding research question, and one null hypothesis guided the study. A descriptive research survey design was used for the study. The sample of the study consisted of three hundred and twenty-five (325) office administrators in universities in south-west Nigeria. The instrument for data collection was a structured questionnaire titled Graduates' E-Competencies Required for Maximum Productivity scale (GECRMP). The instrument for the study was validated by three experts, two from the department of business education and one from measurement and evaluation, all from the faculty of vocational and science education at the University of Calabar, Calabar. The reliability of the instrument was ascertained through a pilot study involving office administrators in South-South, Nigeria. The data collected from the respondents in the pilot study was used to compute the reliability of the instrument. The Cronbach alpha SPSS statistical procedure was used to determine the internal consistency of the instrument, which yielded an overall consistency of 0.81. The instrument for the study has two parts. Part one sought information on the demographics of the respondents. Mean and standard deviation were used to answer the question, and the t-test statistic was used to test the hypothesis. The hypotheses were tested at the 0.05 level of significance. The results showed that reprographics competencies were needed by office administrators for effective discharge of their office responsibilities. Based on the findings, the study recommended, among others, that office administrators should be trained and re-trained in reprographics productivity in modern office activities and that office administrators needed to be equipped with reprographics competencies for proficiency in proofreading documents.