It's been a couple of hours now and no one has dared to answer you. It's mostly because your code is complete rubbish, style- and functionality-wise. I guess that is because you do not understand HTML forms and interaction of them and the server program via the CGI. As such, it doesn't do what you aim to do.

Go read the synopsis of the CGI module first. Then come back and analyse this code (tested on command line only, not in web server environment): 

#!/usr/bin/perl -T
use strict;
use diagnostics;

use CGI ();
use CGI::Carp qw/fatalsToBrowser/;

my %labels = (
    MA    => 'Mortgage Advisers',
    CA    => 'Customer Advisers',
    BM    => 'Branch Management',
    HO    => 'Head Office',
    Acc    => 'Accord',
    MSa    => 'MCC Sales',
    MSe    => 'MCC Service',
);

my $cgi    = CGI->new;
print $cgi->header('text/html');
my $dept    = $cgi->param('department');

if (defined $dept) {
    if (exists $labels{$dept}) {
        # FIXME
        # untaint $dept and put it into database
        print
            $cgi->start_html,
            $cgi->p("$dept was received."),
            $cgi->end_html;
    } else {
        print
            $cgi->start_html,
            $cgi->p("$dept was received, but is not a valid department
+ name."),
            $cgi->end_html;
    };
} else {
    print
        $cgi->start_html,
        $cgi->start_form(
            -action    => $cgi->script_name,
        ),
        $cgi->popup_menu(
            -name        => 'department',
            -values        => [keys %labels],
            -labels        => \%labels,
        ),
        $cgi->submit,
        $cgi->end_form,
        $cgi->end_html;
};

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In reply to Re: Drop down and display by Anonymous Monk
in thread Drop down and display by kjg

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