Employees Benefits with Use of Information Technology (IT) in Co-Operative Sectors

Today is an age of Information Technology (IT). We are living the IT. Without IT people cannot live in the society. Today world is passing the era of IT. The IT must be an integral part of our life and organization strategy. At present day most of the people are sending and receiving the message through IT and it reduces the opportunities for the face -to- face communication. All citizens can go to the window, pay the various bills and registration forms through IT. Big organization IT can be applied in production, marketing, accounting, finance, operation management, customer services, stocking, the flow of goods, HRM, etc. Now a day new technique business  activities  such  as  e-commerce,  e-banking,  e-actions  and  e-services,  etc. “The co-operative movement in India has a long history of the century with more than 5.49 lakhs co-operative societies functioning at all level”. “Computerization of agricultural co-operatives started more than ten years ago in Kerala state and 100% of primary agricultural co-operatives have been computerized and simplified their work”. IT has a lot of influence on co-operative sectors. It ensures quick services with the low transaction cost of the members or customers. The success of IT in co- operatives depends upon the members’/customers and employees awareness about the same. The quality of co-operatives personnel depends not only on the quality of intake of personnel but also on the quality of training and methods programmes imparted to them. The co-operatives will have to train their staff to make full benefits of the use of IT and effective use of new technological facilities available to them. They  followed  the  traditional  method  of  the  information  system  through  papers …rmally and introduced a few computers only. They make very limited use of IT. The employees are also not well trained in IT and what are the benefits of IT to the unknown of employees?. This limited use of IT reduces the competitive strength of co-operative societies. The study mainly constituents to assess the extent of use of IT and the benefits of employees to use IT in co-operatives. In tune with the objectives relating to employees, the following hypotheses have been formulated and tested in the study. There is no association between the level of benefits with the use of IT and co-operative society. The study is empirical research based on survey method. The main purpose of the study is the measurement of the abstract variable “use of IT” and the benefits of the use of IT in co-operatives through statistical treatment. We have selected seven big co-operative societies. The simple random technique was applied is selecting employees for the study. 50 employees from each society have  been  selected  at  random  using  lots  from  the  list  of  employees  provided  by the respective co-operative society. The co-operatives must provide computer or IT literacy awareness and IT training programme to the employees. The study was also helping the employees with the use of IT in co-operative societies and to improve the performance of their co-operative societies.