Relevance of Office Management and Technology (OMT) Education on Job Prospects of Business Education Students in Rivers State

Abstract

The study examined the relevance of office management and technology education on job prospects of Business 
Education students in Rivers State. The study was guided by two objectives and two research questions. The study 
adopted the descriptive survey design with a population of 27 and 35 final year secretarial education students in 
business education in Rivers State University (RSU) and Ignatius Ajuru University of Education (IAUOE) Rivers 
State. The samples size consisted of 27 and 35 final year secretarial education students in business education in RSU 
and IAUOE Rivers State. This was determined using purposive sampling technique. An instrument was constructed 
and designated with a reliability coefficient of 0.70 with the aid. The research questions were answered using mean 
and standard deviation, while z-test was used to test the hypothesis at 0.5 level of significant. The findings revealed 
that office management and technology education have significant effect on the labour market and that office machine 
operation and manages data base are the job-task which are require by the office management and technology 
education graduates in labour market. It was therefore recommended that Business Education students should be given 
access to technology devices owned the Institution from their year one to encourage student participation in 
technologically-oriented course and Business Education lectures should adopt the usage of technology in delivering 
their lectures this will help reduce students’ phobia about technology-integration in the learning process.