TECHNOLOGICAL EQUIPMENT AND EFFECTIVE DELIVELY OF SECRETARIAL RESPONSIBILITIES: EVIDENCE FROM PUBLIC TERTIARY ISTITUTIONS IN EKITY STATE, NIGERIA
Keywords:
State-of-the-Art Technologies, Secretaries, Secretarial Responsibilities, Technological Equipment, Tertiary Institutions.Abstract
Secretarial responsibilities play important roles in the execution and delivery of administrative and managerial responsibilities in higher education institutions across the world. No matter how skillful and competent secretarial staff members are, the effective delivery of their administrative and managerial functions (that is, secretarial responsibilities) could largely depend on the effective utilization of technology equipment that are available at their disposal. Therefore, this study examined the relationship between the use of technological equipment and effective delivery of secretarial responsibilities in public tertiary institutions in Ekiti State, Nigeria. A correlational survey research design was adopted to achieve the central aim of the study. 171 professionally-trained secretaries in public tertiary institutions in Ekiti State were selected as participants for the study. IBM Statistical Package for Social Scientists (SPSS) was employed as the package for data analysis. Simple Linear Regression was the statistical tool employed for data analysis. The finding revealed that technological equipment significantly associated with effective secretarial responsibilities (r=0.529, p>0.005). The authors recommended, among others, that managers and administrators of tertiary institutions should endeavour to provide adequate and state-of-the-art technological gadgets for secretarial duties to be effective and efficient in tertiary institutions.
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