IMPACT OF OFFICE TECHNOLOGY ON SECRETARIAL PROFESSION

INTRODUCTION By the mid 20th Century, humans had achieved a mastery of technology sufficient to leave the atmosphere of the earth for the first time and explore space. According to Merriam-Webster (2007) technology is making usage and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems or methods of organization in order to solve a problem or perform a specific function. The word technology comes from Greek, the term can either be applied generally or to specific areas: example include construction technology and information technology. 
Technology has affected society and its surroundings in a number of ways. In many societies, technology h as helped develop more advanced economies (including today’s global economy) and has allowed the rise of a leisure class. Many technological processes product unwanted by-products: known as pollution and deplete natural resources, the determinants of the earth and its environment. Various implementations of technologies influences the value of a society and news technology often rises new ethical questions examples include the rise of efficiency interm of human productivity, a term originally approved to machines and the challenge of traditional norms.
CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1BACKGROUND OF STUDY 1.2STATEMENT OF PROBLEM   1.3PURPOSE OF THE STUDY  1.4RESEARCH QUESTIONS  1.5SCOPE OF STUDY  1.6SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY  1.7DEFINITION OF TERMS 
CHAPTER TWO  LITERATURE REVIEW  2.0INTRODUCTION  2.1CONCEPT MODERN TECHNOLOGY  2.2FUNCTION OF THE MODERN OFFICE  2.3SECRETARIAL FUNCTIONS IN GOVERNMENT PARASTATALS  2.5TYPES OF MODERN TECHNOLOGIES USED BY THE SECRETARIES IN THEIR PROFESSION  2.6THE EFFECT OF MODERN TECHNOLOGY ON THE SECRETARIAL PROFESSION 
CHAPTER THREE 3.0RESEARCH METHODOLOGY  3.1INTRODUCTION 3.2AREA OF STUDY  3.3POPULATION  3.4SAMPLING TECHNIQUE  3.5.METHOD OF COLLECTING DATA  3.6VALIDATION OF INSTRUMENT  3.7ADMINISTRATION OF INSTRUMENT  3.8DATA ANALYSIS TECHNIQUE  3.9HISTORICAL BACKGROUND