DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A COMPUTERIZED STAFF RECORD DEPARTMENT (CASE STUDY OF SOCSMAIT)

CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1   BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Staff records department in a firm or in an organization like ours is a department that gathers information regarding staff statistics and condition of service. This information is obtained continually to ensure continuity in staff management. The conversional methods of keeping the 0se records are basically the same in higher institutions.
With so much importance attached to the provision of quality records in this   information age, then the need to follow the trend of information technology (I.T) to speed up and reduce the stress in manual method of keeping records. To achieve this, an object oriented programming language like visual basic 6.0 is used to develop the software.
The federal polytechnic Nekede Owerri was initially established as a college of technology Owerri by edict No.16 dated 1st April, 1978. In 1987 it was renamed, the polytechnic by the Imo state government.
The institution was taken over by the federal government in April 1993 and is now governed by the federal polytechnic act to perform the following functions:
a)  To provide full- time or part –time courses of instruction and         training: On such other fields of applied science, commerce   and management, and