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AGALAMANYI, CHRISTOPHER*
EME, OKECHUKWU INNOCENT
EMEH, IKECHUKWU EKE JEFFRY
Abstract
Excellent organizational arrangement singlehandedly does not guarantee enhanced
performance and increased productivity but
with well-managed personnel. Human resource
is therefore, a critical factor in the attainment of
organizational goals. This is because all the
organizational activities are initiated and
determined by the persons who make up that
institution; as plants, offices, computers,
automated equipments and all else that a
modern firm uses are unproductive except for
human effort and direction. The special abilities,
skill and knowledge needed to turn thing around
in any organization for good are embedded in
human beings and to get things done well in the
organization, those latent skills, talents,
knowledge, skills abilities and capabilities are
harnessed through a process called human
resources management. The use of tools and
technology has been argued to have helped the
harnessing of the potentials of the persons in an
organization. However, these abilities and
capabilities of these persons to contribute
significantly
to
the
attainment
of
organizational goals have contemporarily, been
hindered and hampered by some issues that are
solvable by information communication
technology (ICT). ICT has been said to have a
significant relationship with human resources
management. It is on this note that this paper
seeks to x-ray the adoption and application of
INTRODUCTION
Although Information and communication
Technology
(ICT)
provides
enormous
opportunities such as storing, processing,
retrieving, disseminating and sharing of
information in organization, its use within the
University in the developing countries is still
plagued with many problems that hinder
effective and efficient management, even though
its adoption has been shown to improve
Universities performances since ICT is known
as a tool that improves organizations
competitiveness (Sheppard & Hooton, 2006;
Alam et al, 2007 and Apulu &Latham, 2009).
Universities world over, are highly reputed for
and regarded as centres for training and
production of high caliber manpower that every
country requires for its development. This,
however, is based on the level of information
they poses, how they communicate it and what
technology available to them. In Nigeria, one of
such institutions is the University of Nigeria
founded in 1960. The university has, at its
disposal, personnel with enormous human
resources, for the attainment of its aims and
objectives in teaching and research which must
as a matter of strategy and policy, be managed
and administered well to ensure effective and
efficient results. It is this quest for efficiency that
necessitated the pursuit for better management
of the staffs of the University necessitated also
by the changes which modern organizations
heralds and which call for changes in the modus
operandi of the University of Nigeria hence
these changes brought about by new
technologies have had significant impact on the
way the University staffs live and work.
However,
these
changes-turned-challenges
emanated from the pervasiveness of information
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Department of public administration and local
government studies, University of Nigeria,
Nsukka
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CONCEPTUAL DISCOURSE
Information and communication
technology
Information has always played a very important
role in human life, but in the mid-20th century,
it increased immeasurably as a result of social
progress and the vigorous development in
science and technology (Ogunsola & Aboyade,
2005). Such increased role suffices the assertion
that rapid expansion of a mass of diversified
information is occurring, which has received the
name information explosion. As a result the
need has arisen for a scientific approach to
information and for elucidation of its most
characteristic properties which has led to two
principal changes in interpretation of the
concept of information. First, it was broadened
to include information exchange not only
between man and man but also between
machine and machine. The pace of change
brought by new technologies has had a
significant effect on the way people live, work,
and play worldwide (Trostnikov, 1970).
Information and Communications Technology
or information and communication technology,
usually abbreviated as ICT, is often used as an
extended synonym for information technology
(IT), but is usually a more general term that
stresses the role of unified communications and
the
integration
of
telecommunications
(telephone lines and wireless signals),
computers, middleware as well as necessary
software, storage- and audio-visual systems,
which enable users to create, access, store,
transmit, and manipulate information. In other
words, Information and Communications
Technology (ICT) consists of Information
Technology (IT) as well as telecommunication,
broadcast media, all types of audio and video
processing and transmission and network based
control and monitoring functions. The
expression was first used in 1997 in a report by
Dennis Stevenson to the UK government and
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METHODOLOGY
The study was carried out in the University of
Nigeria, Nsukka Campus in Enugu State of
Nigeria and it is a quantitative research as it
utilized research questionnaire.
The paper adopted the probability sampling
method for the purpose of the convenience of
the researchers. The probability sampling
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The
efficient
and
effective
management of human resources in
Nigerian Universities is significantly
correlated to the efficient and effective
H0:
application
of
Information
Communication Technology (ICT) in
the management of the Universities.
The
efficient
and
effective
management of human resources in
Nigerian
Universities
is
not
significantly correlated to the efficient
and
effective
application
of
Information
Communication
Technology (ICT) in the management
of the Universities.
Test
H0:
Test
Decision
Decision
Conclusion
Conclusion
Since the X 2cal > X2 tab, we reject HO and accept
the alternative (Hi). Therefore, we conclude that
Poor application of information communication
technology (ICT) in Nigerian Universities
significantly correlates with the structural,
operational, economic and socio-cultural issues
in the management of the Universities.
Insert table-5 here
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H0:
Test
Level of freedom adopted or chosen = 0.05
Degree of freedom = (R -1) (C -1)
= (5 -1) (5 -1)
= 4 x 4 =16 (26.2962)
For the application of chi-square test to table
below given the formula;
X = (fo-fe) (for each cell)
Fe
Insert table-6 here
Execution/Decision Guide Rule
Reject H0 (null) hypothesis if calculated X value
is greater than tabulated value; and accept H1
(alternative) hypothesis.
Decision
Since the calculated X calculated value
(2,562.85) is greater than the critical X tabulated
value (26.2962), we reject H0 (null) hypothesis
and accept H1 (alternative) hypothesis.
Conclusion:
Since the X2 cal > X2 tab, we reject HO and accept
the alternative (H1). Therefore, we conclude
thus: that the expected gains of effective and
proper
application
of
information
communication technology (ICT) in the Nigerian
Universities have eluded the University of
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Table-1 The Distribution of Respondents as to Whether the efficient and effective management of
human resources in Nigerian Universities is significantly correlated to the efficient and effective
application of Information Communication Technology (ICT) in the management of the
Universities.
Item
Question
Strongly Agree. Undecided Strongly Disagree. Total
Agree.
Disagree.
306
1
You are ICT compliant
150
125
20
5
6
(141)
(101)
(35)
(17)
(12)
100%
49.01%
40.84%
6.53%
1.63%
1.96%
306
2
Many staffs of the University
140
110
30
10
16
are not ICT compliant?
(141)
(101)
(35)
(17)
(12)
100%
25
Total
45.75%
35.94%
9.80%
3.26%
5.22%
140
(141)
45.75%
110
(141)
35.94%
170
(141)
55.55%
710
100
(101)
32.67%
125
(101)
40.84%
50
(101)
16.33%
510
40
(35)
13.07%
16
(35)
5.22%
70
(35)
22.87%
176
16
(17)
5.22%
45
(17)
14.70%
10
(17)
3.26%
86
10
(12)
3.26%
10
(12)
3.26%
6
(12)
1.96%
58
306
100%
306
100%
306
100%
1540
141
141
141
141
141
101
101
101
101
101
35
35
35
35
35
17
17
17
17
17
12
12
12
12
12
9
-16
-121
-136
-135
39
9
-71
-91
-85
105
65
5
-19
-25
93
108
-1
28
-7
158
38
58
-2
-6
81
253
14641
18496
18225
1521
81
5041
8281
7225
11025
4225
25
361
625
8649
11664
1
784
49
24964
1444
3364
4
36
Total
26
0.57
1.82
103.84
131.18
129.26
15.06
0.80
49.91
81.99
71.53
315
120.71
0.66
10.31
17.86
508.76
686.12
0.06
46.18
2.88
2080.33
120.33
280.33
0.33
3
4,757.96
133
133
133
133
133
119
119
119
119
119
24
24
24
24
24
14
14
14
8
8
108
128
123
11
11
113
89
109
136
86
-4
-13
19
122
98
16
64
64
11664
16384
15129
121
121
17769
7921
11881
18496
7396
16
169
361
14884
9604
265
27
0.48
0.48
87.69
123.19
113.75
1.02
1.02
107.30
66.56
99.84
770.67
308.17
0.67
7.04
15.04
1063.14
686
18.29
14
14
13
13
13
13
13
12
-12
101
109
27
4
0
144
144
10201
11881
729
16
0
Total
From chi-square distribution table, we have (0.05, 16) = 26.2962
10.29
10.29
784.69
913.92
56.08
1.23
0
5,246.85
Table-5 The Distribution of Respondents on Whether that the expected gains of effective and proper
application of information communication technology (ICT) in the Nigerian Universities have eluded
the University of Nigeria relates significantly the poor application of ICT in the University.
Item Question
Strongly Agree. Undecided Strongly
Disagree. Total
Agree.
Disagree.
11
Training and development
100
110
54
26
16
306
of the University staffs,
(134)
(91)
(34)
(26)
(22)
especially those of
32.68%
35.94% 17.64%
8.49%
5.23%
100%
Personnel Department has
been adequate since the
advent of ICT.
Information
134
108
20
25
19
306
12
Communication
(134)
(91)
(34)
(26)
(22)
Technology (ICT) has
43.79%
35.29% 6.54%
8.16%
6.21%
100%
connected/linked the
University of Nigeria to
other Universities within
and outside the country
13
The University of Nigeria
130
110
20
28
18
306
has experienced increased
(134)
(91)
(34)
(26)
(22)
competitive advantage over 42.48%
35.95% 6.54%
9.15%
5.88%
100%
other Universities since the
introduction and adoption
of ICT in the University
ICT has its limitations in
131
60
62
32
21
306
14
enhancing Human
(134)
(91)
(34)
(26)
(22)
Resources Management in
42.81%
19.61% 20.26%
10.45%
6.86%
100%
the University of Nigeria
Nsukka such as poor
application.
15
With proper application,
174
65
12
17
38
306
ICT will greatly enhance
(134)
(91)
(34)
(26)
(22)
both job and human
56.86%
21.24% 3.92%
5.55%
12.42%
100%
resources management in
the University of Nigeria
Nsukka
Total
669
453
168
128
112
1530
Source: Field Study, 2011
28
134
134
134
134
134
91
91
91
91
91
34
34
34
34
34
26
26
26
26
26
22
22
22
22
22
-34
-24
-80
-108
188
43
17
-71
-66
-72
96
76
-14
-6
-16
105
34
36
6
-5
152
43
-10
-5
16
1156
576
6600
11664
13924
1849
289
5041
4356
5184
9216
5776
196
36
256
11025
1156
1296
36
25
23104
1849
100
25
256
Total
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8.63
4.30
47.76
87.04
103.91
20.32
3.18
55.40
47.87
56.97
271.06
189.88
5.76
1.06
7.52
424.04
44.40
49.85
1.38
0.96
1050.88
84.05
4.55
1.14
11.64
2,562.85