ID No.: 2471
Tutor: Dr. S. Joy
The Effectiveness of Electronic Office Management in the Petroleum Company (Oilex).
Introduction:
Electronic Office Management is an automated system designed specially for the office tasks. According to Anderson, it is an administrative system based on computing, word processing and data transmission facilities. The idea of an electronic office was first put up in 1947 by Lyons, the British firm of tea shops which use the computers for office work.
Research Objective:
To measure the effectiveness of using electronic office system in the Petroleum company (Oilex) and how it helps to increase the productivities of it.
Literature Review:
Looking back through history it can be seen that every major advance in society can be recognized directly to a significant improvement in man 's ability to communicate information. Here the point is that the data which related to the management is much be effectively where that managers can communicate the data useful within the organization and even out it by using technology.
Electronic Office was first mooted in 1947 by Lyons, the British firm of tea shops which considered the use of computers for office work. The firm 's own computer system called Lyons Electronic Office (LEO1), became operational in 1951. Since then, the application of computers to office work has become a reality, resulting in a number of benefits to the users. These benefits include:
(1) Easier and quicker access to information;
(2) Substantial saving on staff, overheads, etc.;
(3) Speed of obtaining, processing, storing and retrieving information aids decision-making;
(4) Improved communication between individual executives and their offices;
(5) Improved productivity in processing documents, reports and letters.
(F.P. Abifarin – 1993)
Electronic Office Management is a face of records management which has changed forever. For many organizations this has
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