INFORMATION MANAGEMENT AND HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT IN ENUGU STATE CIVIL SERVICE, 2000-2010

📄 Project Abstract

Management' and 'information' are two commonly used words with many shades of understanding. The shades become shadows when the words are brought together as 'information management', where interpretation is subject to a range of interests and contexts. Everyone manages information to some extent personally. When information is to be managed corporately, the perspective from which it is approached varies considerably according to the background of different professions whose orientation may, for example, be behavioural, technological, managerial, or educational (O'Brien & Marakas, 2011). Yet between these groups, it seems reasonable to assume a shared understanding of the separation between the way information is ultimately used (such as in learning or decision making), and the way that it is organised and processed to be available for use. Such understanding may be given substance as a requirement for intermediation between information processing systems and their users. This may be i...