THE IMPACT OF THE INTERNET ON SECRETARIAL STUDIES IN SELECTED BUSINESS ORGANISATIONS

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ABSTRACT

The aim of this study is to find out the impact of the internet on secretarial profession. This research covers the selected business organizations in Enugu metropolis.
In this research, the related literature were reviewed.
The population used for this study were ninety secretaries which were picked from selected seven business organization in Enugu metropolis.
The instrument used for this study were ninety questionnaires which were administered to secretaries in few organizations in Enugu metropolis.
The data collected were analysed and presented in tables.
Having analysed the findings in the previous chapter and the results one can find out was that, the internet is a helpful device to the secretarial profession in Enugu metropolis.
In the light of the result, the researchers suggest that the secretaries should be able to know the operational mode of the internet, since it is very important to their profession. And also, it will help the secretaries to get the needed training they required by giving them more time after work.

CHAPTER 1

CHAPTER ONE
1.0 INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
The country if not the whole universe is on the brink of immense technology, and this phenomenon has get in far reaching effect on almost all spheres of human endeavour.
Different people have perceptions of what impact the modern technology via the Internet is playing to address the issues of performance of the secretarial profession in the new millennium.
To be precise, many scholars have dealt on this topic but the researchers of the project work have tried to portray actually what the impact of the internet is regarding the performance of secretarial profession.
The internet according to Cerf, [1996] president of the internet society â€˜is a specific collaboration of independently managed networks that allow users at disparate heterogeneous computer networks to communicate with each other across organizational and geographical boundaries. Its main function in any social system may be identified as information, education, entertainers, discussion, communication and integration. Therefore, the Internet as an information superhighway has been aroused to perform all these immeasurable impact for the rest of the world.
One cannot talk about information and access without making regular reference to the information technologies and their convergence particularly the INTERNET.
Information and communication technology are rapidly changing the way we work and live, most especially regarding the way the office is handled. We see a world of network. That is bringing new opportunities and options to people at work, at home and on the move directly stating how our society live, work, learn, play and how our society evolves.
In the secretarial profession, information and communication are the very essence of the content and that is what the internet is all about.
Information derives its value from the meaning that an entity [a human being] assigns to data. It therefore becomes a performed in an organization.