DIGITALIZATION OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT IN SECONDARY SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION

Authors

  • Dr. Ozokwere Helen Nkechi Department of Educational Management Tansian University Umunya Anambra State Author
  • Prof. Uchenna Becky Onuh Department of Educational Management Tansian University Umunya Anambra State Author

Keywords:

Digitalization, Digitization, Personnel management, Digital transformation, secondary school, Administration.

Abstract

This work studied digitalization of personnel management with focus on secondary school administration. Digitalization as a concept is described to mean act of applying digital technology to everyday task to make work easier. It is distinguished from digitization which is encoding the manual work into digital form, whereas both are the elements of digital transformation. Some digital devices and their uses explored in the study included various types of computer, scanner, printer, smart phone, digital camera, audio devices, website, social media and so on. Their features were also explained in terms of portability, applicability, storage, expansion, etc. The paper identified some benefits of digitalization of personnel management to include: improved communication, accessibility, productivity, accuracy, task simplification, activity tracking, innovative and the like. However, some challenges such as disruptive power supply, complex brand of technology, lack of skill, inadequate physical infrastructure, poor data handling, financial limitation, resistance to change and tracking cyber security were identify. The paper thus suggested: steady evaluation of present state of secondary school personnel management in terms of digitalization to find out problems in order to ameliorate them, teaching ICT skills to personnel in the schools, provision of functional ICT with regular power supply, creating digital spaces and support for continuing digital development, etc, as some of the ways of improving digitalization of personnel management in secondary schools. 

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2025-05-31

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DIGITALIZATION OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT IN SECONDARY SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION. (2025). Journal of Association of Educational Management and Policy Practitioners, 6(2), 9-15. http://journals.aemapp.org/index.php/JAEMAPP/article/view/216

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