GASPRO International Journal of Eminent Scholars

ABSTRACT

The study investigated the information system competencies and job performance of business education graduates in Rivers State Civil Service. Three objectives, three research questions, and three null hypotheses guided the study. The study adopted the descriptive survey design. The population of the study was 2,290 business education graduates working as civil service staff in Rivers State, which was drawn from Ignatius Ajuru University of Education, Port Harcourt, Rivers State University, Rivers State Universal Basic Education, Rivers State Senior Secondary Schools Board and Rivers State Civil Service Commission (main stream), while the sample size consisted of 340 respondents. Data collection was done through a researcher-designed instrument titled "Information System Competency and Job Performance of Business Education Graduates Questionnaire (ISCJPQ). With the aid of SPSS version 21, frequency, percentage, and mean were used to answer the research questions, while Pearson Product Moment Correlation was used to test the null hypotheses at the 0.05 level of significance. The result of the study, among others, revealed that there is a strong and significant relationship between data storage and effective communication among business education graduates in Rivers State, mainly in terms of storing relevant information for supervision purposes. Data storage affects task accomplishment by collecting relevant information to do jobs. Data storage affects effective communication by making important information available. Data storage affects supervision in terms of using important data and information to determine what should be done. Based on the findings, the study recommended, among others, that business education graduates need to update their learning facilities, endeavour to adhere to information system principles, and lecturers/teachers should be provided with scholarship on (ICT) training in order to record high competency in their job performance in organisations and parastatals.

KEYWORDS: Information System Competency, Data Storage, Job Performance, Business Education Graduates, Civil Service and Rivers State