Adoption and Utilization of Digital Record Management Tools for Administrative Performance among Administrative Officers in Public Parastatals in Rivers State

Abstract

The study was to examine the Adoption and Utilization of Digital Record Management Tools for Administrative Performance among Administrative Officers in Public Parastatals in Rivers State. Two research questions and two null hypotheses were answered and tested at 0.05 level of significance. Descriptive research design was adopted for the study, which was conducted in Rivers State. The population of the study was the entire 150 Business Education postgraduate students in Rivers State Universities. The validation of the research instrument was done by three experts from Business Education and Measurement and Evaluation. The reliability of the instrument was established using Pearson Product Moment Correlation (PPMC) to obtain a reliability coefficient score of 0.82. Data for the study were generated through the use of a self-structured questionnaire titled: “Adoption and Utilization of Digital Record Management Tools Administrative Performance among Administrative Officers in Public Parastatals Questionnaire. The research questions were answered using Descriptive statistics such as Mean and Standard Deviation, while t-test statistical tool was deployed to test the hypotheses. The findings of the study revealed that DocuWare and iManage, as record management tools, are to an extent adopted and utilized for administrative performance among Administrative Officers in Public Parastatals in Rivers State universities and it was recommended that the Rivers State universities management should intensify and strengthen the use of information systems in instructional delivery, utilization of Digital Record Management Tools etc.