Office Education Pedagogical Practices and the development of Students’ Managerial Competencies in Rivers State Tertiary Institutions

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This study investigated the relationship between office education pedagogical practices and the development of students’ managerial competencies in Rivers State tertiary institutions. Two research questions and corresponding hypotheses were posed to guide the study. Correlation research design was adopted having a population of 515 final year business education students from four tertiary institutions offering the programme in Rivers State during the 2022/2023 academic session. Structured questionnaires validated were subject to reliability to determine the internal consistency. To test for reliability the Pearson product moment correlation coefficient using SPSS version 23 and 0.86 index was obtained. The bivariate data collected were correlated using Pearson Product Moment Correlation (r) for analyses at 0.05 level of significance. The findings thus revealed positively significant relationship between mentoring pedagogical practices and team based pedagogical practices as proviso for the development of managerial competencies. Based on the findings, it was recommended among others that Business educators should use intermittently team -based learning pedagogical practices and design learning activities that would inspire students to develop and apply core management competencies -interpersonal relationship, tactfulness, communication in the workplace.

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