DEPARTMENT OF SECRETARYSHIP AND MANAGEMENT STUDIES

1.0 INTRODUCTION The Department of Secretaryship and Management Studies is the famous Department running the ideal and noble skill-filled Programme in the Faculty of Business Studies, which trains students to become competent professional secretaries, personal/confidential assistants, office managers and administrators with adequate skills and knowledge required in the modern business office. The department also provides opportunity for students to train as bilingual secretaries (English and French). 2.0 VISION To become a world-class center of excellence for the training of Secretarial and Administrative personnel in the Western Region, Ghana and the world at large. 3.0 MISSION Our aim is to produce highly skilled and resourceful secretaries personal/confidential assistants, office managers and administrators with competency-based training, who have the requisite technical knowledge, a broad outlook and acute awareness of both national and international issues in order to function effectively and efficiently in the world of work. 4.0 OBJECTIVES The objectives of the department are as follows: (a) To equip students with a broad range of secretarial/administrative skills. (b) To equip students with effective communicative skills in English and French. (c) To help students develop excellent interpersonal skills and personality traits for the world of work. (d) To improve students’ knowledge of current relevant issues in the management of human, financial and physical resources in the world of work. (e) To equip students with excellent modern soft skills necessary for organizational development.