Technological Advancement Strategy and Job Performance of Managers

Abstract

Curohoak & Parzyeh (2003) defined technological advancement strategy as the entire field of investigation design, development, application and method of rendering or processing information through self- acting or self-moving machines and that the office technological advancement refers to those self-regulating process through which work is done with a minimum of human effort.

According to Dew (2002), early in the 1990s, most of the activities was done or performed manually. A good and quality handwriting was an additional qualification/advantage for holding a position in an institution, but manual organizational activities were greatly slow. Over the years, several efforts have been made in other to improve the functionality of employees in carrying out their daily functions in their various institutions. The invention of the typewriting machine and its use in the office was almost revolutionary in its effect upon the office and particularly, typesetting works of the organizations would be done quickly, more attractively and more economically. The author extended his view by further stating that a typewriter as a machine for writing characters like those made by printer’s type when more than a few copies are needed. The author added that this machine (typewriter) consist of a keyboard that controls impression made in any sequence from tape arranged on separate reds or on the periphery of a disc, or other. In the machines of early days, the term “typewriter was also applied to the operator, later the operator become known as typist.