Managers face many challenges in managing information systems as organizations and systems continuously change. First-order effects are direct outcomes of a new system while second-order effects are indirect outcomes. Whether a system is successful depends on factors like the organization's competitive environment, culture, structure, processes, and existing IT infrastructure. Privacy is important for individuals in organizations because electronic monitoring can track sensitive personal data like internet usage, medical information, and physical movements. Organizations should consider balancing oversight with employees' reasonable expectations of privacy.
The document discusses the functions of human resource management which include planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling as managerial functions and employment, human resource development, compensation management, and employee relations as operational functions. It also outlines the roles of HR executives as service providers, administrative experts, facilitators, consultants, auditors, change agents, and employee advocates.
After studying this chapter ,you should be able to:
1.Explain what human resource management is and how it relates to the management process.
2. Give at least eight examples of how all managers can use human resource management concepts and techniques.
3. Illustrate the human resources responsibilities of line and staff (HR) managers.
4. Provide a good example that illustrates HR’s role in formulating and executing company strategy.
5. Write a short essay that addresses the topic: Why metrics and measurement are crucial to today’s HR managers.
6. Outline the plan of this book.
Forecasting is the process of predicting future events or trends based on historical or current data. It is important for business planning and decision making. There are various quantitative and qualitative techniques used for human resource forecasting, including regression analysis, trend analysis, managerial judgment, and the Delphi technique. Accurate HR forecasting helps organizations prevent understaffing or overstaffing and allows for efficient use of functions like production. Common variables forecasted include staffing needs, absenteeism, and costs. The document discusses different forecasting methods and their applications in HR planning.
Define HRM? Why it is important for an organization.kumail mehdi
Explain why human resource management is important to an organization? How external influences affect human resource management . Explain environmental factors affecting human resource management.
Personnel Planning and Recruiting ( chapter 5 )Qamar Farooq
After studying this chapter, you should be able to:
1. Explain the main techniques used in employment planning and forecasting.
2. List and discuss the main outside sources of candidates.
3. Effectively recruit job candidates.
4. Name and describe the main internal sources of candidates.
5. Develop a help wanted ad.
6. Explain how to recruit a more diverse workforce.
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This document summarizes key concepts from an introduction to organizational behavior course. It defines organizational behavior as the study of human behavior in organizational settings and how it interfaces with the organization. It discusses different models of OB and the major contributing disciplines. It also summarizes several seminal studies including the Hawthorne experiments which highlighted the importance of social and psychological factors in organizations.
Markov analysis examines dependent random events where the likelihood of future events depends on past events. It models this using a transition matrix showing the probabilities of moving between states. The document discusses Markov analysis of accounts receivable to predict future payment categories. It defines states like paid, overdue 1-3 months, etc. and a transition matrix showing the probabilities of moving between states. Markov analysis can then predict future distributions of accounts among the states by multiplying the current distribution by the transition matrix repeatedly.
The document discusses the functions of human resource management which include planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling as managerial functions and employment, human resource development, compensation management, and employee relations as operational functions. It also outlines the roles of HR executives as service providers, administrative experts, facilitators, consultants, auditors, change agents, and employee advocates.
After studying this chapter ,you should be able to:
1.Explain what human resource management is and how it relates to the management process.
2. Give at least eight examples of how all managers can use human resource management concepts and techniques.
3. Illustrate the human resources responsibilities of line and staff (HR) managers.
4. Provide a good example that illustrates HR’s role in formulating and executing company strategy.
5. Write a short essay that addresses the topic: Why metrics and measurement are crucial to today’s HR managers.
6. Outline the plan of this book.
Forecasting is the process of predicting future events or trends based on historical or current data. It is important for business planning and decision making. There are various quantitative and qualitative techniques used for human resource forecasting, including regression analysis, trend analysis, managerial judgment, and the Delphi technique. Accurate HR forecasting helps organizations prevent understaffing or overstaffing and allows for efficient use of functions like production. Common variables forecasted include staffing needs, absenteeism, and costs. The document discusses different forecasting methods and their applications in HR planning.
Define HRM? Why it is important for an organization.kumail mehdi
Explain why human resource management is important to an organization? How external influences affect human resource management . Explain environmental factors affecting human resource management.
Personnel Planning and Recruiting ( chapter 5 )Qamar Farooq
After studying this chapter, you should be able to:
1. Explain the main techniques used in employment planning and forecasting.
2. List and discuss the main outside sources of candidates.
3. Effectively recruit job candidates.
4. Name and describe the main internal sources of candidates.
5. Develop a help wanted ad.
6. Explain how to recruit a more diverse workforce.
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This document summarizes key concepts from an introduction to organizational behavior course. It defines organizational behavior as the study of human behavior in organizational settings and how it interfaces with the organization. It discusses different models of OB and the major contributing disciplines. It also summarizes several seminal studies including the Hawthorne experiments which highlighted the importance of social and psychological factors in organizations.
Markov analysis examines dependent random events where the likelihood of future events depends on past events. It models this using a transition matrix showing the probabilities of moving between states. The document discusses Markov analysis of accounts receivable to predict future payment categories. It defines states like paid, overdue 1-3 months, etc. and a transition matrix showing the probabilities of moving between states. Markov analysis can then predict future distributions of accounts among the states by multiplying the current distribution by the transition matrix repeatedly.
Human resources managers must scan the organizational environment and formulate strategies in response to trends. Technological advances require technically skilled employees and impact organizational structure. Factors to consider include technology, organizational structure, employee values and attitudes, management trends, demographics, human resource utilization, and international developments. Successfully addressing a changing environment through strategic planning and adaptation provides organizations with a competitive advantage.
Introduction to Human Resources ManagementElly Mgumba
The document provides an introduction to human resource management (HRM). It defines HRM and distinguishes it from personnel management. Key differences include that HRM is more modern, encompasses more functions like planning, recruiting, training, and performance evaluation, and takes a more strategic approach compared to the administrative focus of personnel management. The document also outlines the evolution of HRM from early systems like the guild system to more modern approaches incorporating scientific management and industrial psychology. It discusses the objectives and roles of HRM professionals and departments in organizations. Finally, it introduces some challenges facing HRM like diversity, technology changes, and government regulations.
Human Resource Management outlines the definition, core elements, objectives, functions, scope, and challenges of HRM. It discusses the meaning of HRM as integrating employment relationships to help organizations and employees achieve their goals. HRM aims to acquire, develop, motivate, and retain committed employees to meet organizational objectives. It also covers the planning, organizing, directing, and controlling of human resources from recruitment to retirement.
* How high is your annual employee turnover?
* How much of your employee turnover consists of regretted loss?
* Do you know which employees will be the most likely to leave your company within a year?
Find the answer from HR Analytics because Human Resource analytics (HR analytics) is about analyzing an organizations’ people problems.
The document discusses employee turnover and retention management. It defines employee turnover as movement across an organization's boundaries and discusses types of turnover like voluntary, involuntary, avoidable and unavoidable. High turnover can negatively impact organizations through costs of recruitment, training and operational disruption. However, turnover can also have positive impacts like increased performance. The document then discusses strategies organizations can use to improve employee retention like competitive pay, training opportunities, work-life balance and career development programs.
The document discusses the Resource Based View (RBV) approach to competitive advantage. The RBV states that a company's internal resources are more important than external factors in determining competitive advantage. Resources include capital, equipment, employee skills, and brands, while capabilities are the ability of resources to perform tasks. There are three categories of resources: physical, human, and organizational. According to RBV, competitive resources and capabilities should be rare, difficult to imitate, and have no substitutes.
This Presentation cover all relative aspects of Human Resource Planning | HR Demand Forecasting & HR Supply Forecasting along with detail description of Recruitment & Selection as per the Syllabus of AKTU MBA Course.
The document outlines three aspects of human resource management: the line function, coordinative function, and staff functions. The line function involves directly managing employees within one's own department, including tasks like staffing, training, performance management, and maintaining morale. The coordinative function refers to coordinating personnel activities across departments and ensuring compliance with company policies. The staff function involves advising and assisting line managers on personnel issues, as well as innovating new HR practices and advocating for employees.
After completion of this seminar audience will be able to know:
What is HRM Model?
Why we need to design HRM Model?
Importance and focus of each HRM Model;
Being HR professional, what would be the Negative consequences if we don’t know about HRM Models?
This document provides an overview of business environment and its analysis. It discusses that business environment includes internal and external factors that influence an organization. The external environment is further divided into micro and macro environment. The micro environment includes suppliers, customers, competitors and other stakeholders that directly influence business operations. The macro environment consists of broader factors like economic, political, social, technological, legal and environmental factors that indirectly impact businesses. Various tools for environmental analysis are also discussed including PESTLE analysis that assesses Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Legal and Environmental factors of the external macro environment.
Line and staff, responsibility of hrm lecture_ 02 classabir hossain
Authority is the right to make decisions, to direct the work of others, and to give orders.
Authority refers to the rights inherent in a managerial position to give orders and expect the orders to be obeyed.
Authority was a major tenet of the early management writers, the glue that held the organization together.
It was to be delegated downward to lower-level managers. Each management position has specific inherent rights that incumbents acquire from the position's rank or title.
Authority is related to one's position and ignores personal characteristics. When a position of authority is vacated, the authority remains with the position.
Line Authority
Staff Authority
Functional Authority
Line Manager
Staff Manager
The document discusses the importance of staffing for organizational success. It states that people are the most important asset for any organization and adequate staffing is essential to achieve organizational objectives. It also emphasizes that an organization can only achieve its goals when it has the right people in the right positions. Overall, the key points made are that staffing is critical for organizational performance, it involves acquiring and retaining a qualified workforce, and ensuring the right people are placed in the right jobs.
Motivating employees involves both financial and non-financial methods. Financial methods include wages, salaries, bonuses, profit sharing, and performance-related pay. Non-financial methods include praise, promotion, job enrichment, empowerment, and teamwork. Various theories provide perspectives on motivation, such as Maslow's hierarchy of needs and Herzberg's two-factor theory, which emphasize the importance of both financial and non-financial factors. The most effective management style depends on the situation and type of employees.
This document discusses various techniques for forecasting human resource (HR) supply, including trend analysis, competency modeling, replacement charts, staffing tables, succession planning, and Markov analysis. Trend analysis examines past trends to predict future HR needs. Competency modeling identifies the skills and competencies required for jobs. Replacement charts and staffing tables provide visual representations of current and future workforce needs. Succession planning identifies potential replacements. Markov analysis uses probabilities to predict internal employee movement between jobs. Accurately forecasting HR supply allows organizations to assess and address disparities with future demand.
Succession planning involves systematically identifying future management needs, assessing current employee skills and qualifications, and developing plans for employees to fill future openings. It aims to have qualified candidates ready to fill key positions when current employees leave. The process includes human resources planning, needs assessment, developing high-potential employees, and creating replacement charts identifying career paths. Issues that can arise include overlooking strong performers, losing talented staff overlooked for promotion, and difficulties managing large amounts of human resources data.
Human Resource Management (HRM) involves managing the individuals within an organization, including hiring, firing, training, and other personnel issues. HRM applies disciplines like economics, psychology, and sociology to issues within an organization. The objectives of HRM include meeting the organization's strategic goals by finding employees with the right skills, as well as maintaining positive employee motivation and satisfaction. Managerial functions of HRM include planning human resource needs, organizing employee roles, directing employees, and controlling performance. HRM also considers external factors like changing laws, technology, and demographics that can impact an organization.
Strategic role of Human Resource ManagementISAAC Jayant
The document discusses the evolving role of human resource management from a traditional, administrative function to a more strategic role. It outlines some key differences between traditional and strategic HR, including a strategic HR's focus on integrating HR programs with organizational strategy and priorities. The document also discusses several frameworks for strategic HR roles, including Ulrich's model of HR as a strategic partner, change agent, employee champion and administrative expert. It notes barriers to implementing strategic HR and the need for HR strategies to be clearly defined and communicated.
The document discusses the evolution of human resource management from an administrative function to a strategic partner aligned with business strategy. It emphasizes that people are the most valuable resource for organizations and that viewing HR as an investment rather than expense can increase business performance. Finally, it outlines the key roles and priorities of strategic HR in partnering with business leaders to ensure the organization has the right talent and culture to achieve its goals.
1st solve assignment Management information systemDanish Saqi
Information systems are essential for running and managing modern businesses. They help reduce costs, improve efficiency and productivity, minimize litigation risks, safeguard vital information, support better decision making, and preserve corporate memory. Porter's competitive forces model examines how five competitive forces - traditional competitors, new market entrants, substitute products/services, suppliers, and customers - shape a firm's competitive strategies. Firms can use information systems to develop strategies to deal with these competitive forces, such as by creating new products/services, improving customer intimacy and gaining competitive advantages.
This document provides an overview of business processes and information systems. It discusses how information systems can improve business processes and competitive advantage. It also summarizes the main types of information systems including transaction processing systems, management information systems, decision support systems, executive support systems, enterprise systems, supply chain management systems, customer relationship management systems, knowledge management systems, and systems that support collaboration and teamwork. The document emphasizes how information technology and information systems can help coordinate work and information flow within and across organizations.
Human resources managers must scan the organizational environment and formulate strategies in response to trends. Technological advances require technically skilled employees and impact organizational structure. Factors to consider include technology, organizational structure, employee values and attitudes, management trends, demographics, human resource utilization, and international developments. Successfully addressing a changing environment through strategic planning and adaptation provides organizations with a competitive advantage.
Introduction to Human Resources ManagementElly Mgumba
The document provides an introduction to human resource management (HRM). It defines HRM and distinguishes it from personnel management. Key differences include that HRM is more modern, encompasses more functions like planning, recruiting, training, and performance evaluation, and takes a more strategic approach compared to the administrative focus of personnel management. The document also outlines the evolution of HRM from early systems like the guild system to more modern approaches incorporating scientific management and industrial psychology. It discusses the objectives and roles of HRM professionals and departments in organizations. Finally, it introduces some challenges facing HRM like diversity, technology changes, and government regulations.
Human Resource Management outlines the definition, core elements, objectives, functions, scope, and challenges of HRM. It discusses the meaning of HRM as integrating employment relationships to help organizations and employees achieve their goals. HRM aims to acquire, develop, motivate, and retain committed employees to meet organizational objectives. It also covers the planning, organizing, directing, and controlling of human resources from recruitment to retirement.
* How high is your annual employee turnover?
* How much of your employee turnover consists of regretted loss?
* Do you know which employees will be the most likely to leave your company within a year?
Find the answer from HR Analytics because Human Resource analytics (HR analytics) is about analyzing an organizations’ people problems.
The document discusses employee turnover and retention management. It defines employee turnover as movement across an organization's boundaries and discusses types of turnover like voluntary, involuntary, avoidable and unavoidable. High turnover can negatively impact organizations through costs of recruitment, training and operational disruption. However, turnover can also have positive impacts like increased performance. The document then discusses strategies organizations can use to improve employee retention like competitive pay, training opportunities, work-life balance and career development programs.
The document discusses the Resource Based View (RBV) approach to competitive advantage. The RBV states that a company's internal resources are more important than external factors in determining competitive advantage. Resources include capital, equipment, employee skills, and brands, while capabilities are the ability of resources to perform tasks. There are three categories of resources: physical, human, and organizational. According to RBV, competitive resources and capabilities should be rare, difficult to imitate, and have no substitutes.
This Presentation cover all relative aspects of Human Resource Planning | HR Demand Forecasting & HR Supply Forecasting along with detail description of Recruitment & Selection as per the Syllabus of AKTU MBA Course.
The document outlines three aspects of human resource management: the line function, coordinative function, and staff functions. The line function involves directly managing employees within one's own department, including tasks like staffing, training, performance management, and maintaining morale. The coordinative function refers to coordinating personnel activities across departments and ensuring compliance with company policies. The staff function involves advising and assisting line managers on personnel issues, as well as innovating new HR practices and advocating for employees.
After completion of this seminar audience will be able to know:
What is HRM Model?
Why we need to design HRM Model?
Importance and focus of each HRM Model;
Being HR professional, what would be the Negative consequences if we don’t know about HRM Models?
This document provides an overview of business environment and its analysis. It discusses that business environment includes internal and external factors that influence an organization. The external environment is further divided into micro and macro environment. The micro environment includes suppliers, customers, competitors and other stakeholders that directly influence business operations. The macro environment consists of broader factors like economic, political, social, technological, legal and environmental factors that indirectly impact businesses. Various tools for environmental analysis are also discussed including PESTLE analysis that assesses Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Legal and Environmental factors of the external macro environment.
Line and staff, responsibility of hrm lecture_ 02 classabir hossain
Authority is the right to make decisions, to direct the work of others, and to give orders.
Authority refers to the rights inherent in a managerial position to give orders and expect the orders to be obeyed.
Authority was a major tenet of the early management writers, the glue that held the organization together.
It was to be delegated downward to lower-level managers. Each management position has specific inherent rights that incumbents acquire from the position's rank or title.
Authority is related to one's position and ignores personal characteristics. When a position of authority is vacated, the authority remains with the position.
Line Authority
Staff Authority
Functional Authority
Line Manager
Staff Manager
The document discusses the importance of staffing for organizational success. It states that people are the most important asset for any organization and adequate staffing is essential to achieve organizational objectives. It also emphasizes that an organization can only achieve its goals when it has the right people in the right positions. Overall, the key points made are that staffing is critical for organizational performance, it involves acquiring and retaining a qualified workforce, and ensuring the right people are placed in the right jobs.
Motivating employees involves both financial and non-financial methods. Financial methods include wages, salaries, bonuses, profit sharing, and performance-related pay. Non-financial methods include praise, promotion, job enrichment, empowerment, and teamwork. Various theories provide perspectives on motivation, such as Maslow's hierarchy of needs and Herzberg's two-factor theory, which emphasize the importance of both financial and non-financial factors. The most effective management style depends on the situation and type of employees.
This document discusses various techniques for forecasting human resource (HR) supply, including trend analysis, competency modeling, replacement charts, staffing tables, succession planning, and Markov analysis. Trend analysis examines past trends to predict future HR needs. Competency modeling identifies the skills and competencies required for jobs. Replacement charts and staffing tables provide visual representations of current and future workforce needs. Succession planning identifies potential replacements. Markov analysis uses probabilities to predict internal employee movement between jobs. Accurately forecasting HR supply allows organizations to assess and address disparities with future demand.
Succession planning involves systematically identifying future management needs, assessing current employee skills and qualifications, and developing plans for employees to fill future openings. It aims to have qualified candidates ready to fill key positions when current employees leave. The process includes human resources planning, needs assessment, developing high-potential employees, and creating replacement charts identifying career paths. Issues that can arise include overlooking strong performers, losing talented staff overlooked for promotion, and difficulties managing large amounts of human resources data.
Human Resource Management (HRM) involves managing the individuals within an organization, including hiring, firing, training, and other personnel issues. HRM applies disciplines like economics, psychology, and sociology to issues within an organization. The objectives of HRM include meeting the organization's strategic goals by finding employees with the right skills, as well as maintaining positive employee motivation and satisfaction. Managerial functions of HRM include planning human resource needs, organizing employee roles, directing employees, and controlling performance. HRM also considers external factors like changing laws, technology, and demographics that can impact an organization.
Strategic role of Human Resource ManagementISAAC Jayant
The document discusses the evolving role of human resource management from a traditional, administrative function to a more strategic role. It outlines some key differences between traditional and strategic HR, including a strategic HR's focus on integrating HR programs with organizational strategy and priorities. The document also discusses several frameworks for strategic HR roles, including Ulrich's model of HR as a strategic partner, change agent, employee champion and administrative expert. It notes barriers to implementing strategic HR and the need for HR strategies to be clearly defined and communicated.
The document discusses the evolution of human resource management from an administrative function to a strategic partner aligned with business strategy. It emphasizes that people are the most valuable resource for organizations and that viewing HR as an investment rather than expense can increase business performance. Finally, it outlines the key roles and priorities of strategic HR in partnering with business leaders to ensure the organization has the right talent and culture to achieve its goals.
1st solve assignment Management information systemDanish Saqi
Information systems are essential for running and managing modern businesses. They help reduce costs, improve efficiency and productivity, minimize litigation risks, safeguard vital information, support better decision making, and preserve corporate memory. Porter's competitive forces model examines how five competitive forces - traditional competitors, new market entrants, substitute products/services, suppliers, and customers - shape a firm's competitive strategies. Firms can use information systems to develop strategies to deal with these competitive forces, such as by creating new products/services, improving customer intimacy and gaining competitive advantages.
This document provides an overview of business processes and information systems. It discusses how information systems can improve business processes and competitive advantage. It also summarizes the main types of information systems including transaction processing systems, management information systems, decision support systems, executive support systems, enterprise systems, supply chain management systems, customer relationship management systems, knowledge management systems, and systems that support collaboration and teamwork. The document emphasizes how information technology and information systems can help coordinate work and information flow within and across organizations.
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Key Factors in Computer Information Systems
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Does Management Plays A Key Factor in Computer Information System Field?
Keenen L. Rush
Savannah State University
Business Research (BUSA 2185 02)
Dr. Lundy
February 6, 2019
Abstract
This paper purpose is to give key factors on why it is important to have management throughout the Computer Information System field. There has been reports that fortune 500 companies believe management is not a key factor pertaining to computer information systems. People believe in this field that management is to controlling over people and don’t allow the workers to finish their objective. As I reviewed companies that are stricter on management versus others the ones that are strict are usually more successful and last longer. This study is to answer one question does management really plays a key factor in the CIS world. Overall this study should help you realize management should be mandatory throughout this field and should always be implemented in any company.
What does Computer Information System consist of?
What are some roles of Management in Computer Information Systems?
Do companies find Computer Information Systems necessary for their company?
Keywords: Controlling, Strict, Successful, Computer Information Systems
Does Management Plays A Key Factor in Computer Information System Field?
Many people wonder what Computer Information Systems is and how companies implement it within their business. Questions have been constantly asked what the purpose of management within the CIS department of a company is. Godfrey B (2018) felt that storing, managing, documenting, analyzing, and visualizing geographic data were some of the main components of CIS. Every company in the world functions with an Information System department without one a company can not be successful. Management in CIS provides wide-ranging and reactive property management services for the entire CIS portfolio, as well as third-party contracts. CIS is also devoted to constructing lasting tenant relations by employing open-minded community managers.
Many experts have study that management is one of the biggest components in the computer information system field. There have been companies who try to disregard having management in their cis department because of the cost. Cis perform remote troubleshooting including power check, physical connection review and power cycling to restart hardware and this doesn’t come cheap. Studies have shown fortune 500 companies spends millions on IT equipment for multiple reasons. First reason to keep up with data and also collect data on sales, customers, competitors, marketing strategies and so much more. Another reason is everything you can think of is run through a computer within a company whether it’s the company Wi-Fi, Website, E-mail, Phones, which are all things you need for a company to be successful.
One deficiency within my studies is.
Information systems involve organizational, management, and technology dimensions. Computer specialists understand technology but may lack business knowledge, so they should work as part of an interdisciplinary team. Information systems are essential in business today due to trends like globalization, the rise of knowledge economies, the transformation of business models, and the emergence of digital firms. An information system includes interrelated components for collecting, processing, storing, and sharing information to support decision making. It differs from a computer or program, which are technological components of an information system. Data becomes useful information after being processed into meaningful form.
Management information systems (MIS) provide managers with tools to efficiently organize and evaluate departments within an organization. An MIS includes software, databases, hardware, decision support systems, and computerized processes that help managers make decisions and run departments effectively. The main goals of an MIS are to provide accurate and timely information to support decision-making, planning, control, and overall operations. Digital firms have enabled core business relationships through digital networks and technology platforms, allowing them to operate more efficiently on a global scale and adapt quickly to market changes.
Management information systems (MIS) provide managers with tools to efficiently organize and evaluate departments within an organization. An MIS includes software, databases, hardware, decision support systems, and computerized processes that help managers make decisions and run departments effectively. The main goals of an MIS are to provide accurate and timely information to support decision-making, planning, control, and overall operations. Digital firms have enabled core business relationships through digital networks and technology platforms, allowing them to operate more efficiently on a global scale and adapt quickly to market changes.
This presentation is about managment and how it is affect the whole organization in a good way or bad way. I've made a small research about Toyota company and how they've applied the six business objectives.
This presentation was one of the requirements of MIS203 course in Yanbu University College.
1. Define key performance indicators linked to strategy, such as market share, revenue, and profitability by country and product.
2. Implement a centralized MIS system using online and mobile reporting tools to provide transparent access to metrics across locations.
3. Establish processes for consistently capturing, analyzing, and reporting performance data from all business units to enable benchmarking and informed decision-making.
Management information system with relevance to NepalDarshan Bhattarai
This document provides an overview of information systems and technology for managers. It discusses basic IT concepts, how IT affects business, management information systems (MIS), MIS subsystems, the role of MIS in decision making, and challenges of MIS. Key points covered include how IT can provide competitive advantages or disadvantages, the objectives and components of MIS, and how effective information and managerial literacy are important for implementing MIS strategies.
This document provides an introduction to information systems from a lecture at Africa Nazarene University. It defines MIS as the study of information systems in business and management. It also discusses why firms invest in information systems, giving examples like improving efficiency and developing new business models. Finally, it outlines the key components of information systems, including hardware, software, data, processes for input, processing, output and feedback of information.
The document discusses the importance of information and information systems for gaining competitive advantage. It states that the efficiency of managing information determines business success today. It also describes several competitive forces that shape businesses and generic strategies like low-cost leadership, product differentiation, and strengthening customer intimacy that can be enabled through information systems.
The document provides an introduction to management information systems. It explains that information systems are essential for businesses today to achieve operational excellence, develop new products and business models, gain customer intimacy, improve decision making, gain competitive advantages, and ensure survival. It defines an information system from both a technical and business perspective, and identifies the three key dimensions of information systems as the management, organizational, and technological dimensions.
Digital firms place an emphasis on digitizing business processes and services through sophisticated technology and information systems. These systems allow digital firms to decentralize operations, accelerate responsiveness to customers, and increase efficiencies across business functions. A key advantage is that digital firms can operate core business services and functions continuously and more efficiently through digital networks and information systems.
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Resource: Project Systems Acquisition Plan Grading Guide
Resources:
· Baltzan, P., and Phillips, A. (2015). Business Driven Information Systems (5th ed).
· Week 3 articles and videos
· It is recommended students search the Internet for a Systems Acquisition Plan template.
Scenario: You are an entrepreneur in the process of researching a business development idea. As you create a high-level Information Technology (IT) strategy for your new enterprise, it is important to consider the acquisition of IT resources. A Systems Acquisition Plan will guide the process of identifying enterprise technology needs and acquiring appropriate information systems in the context of your goal to incorporate business driven IT. The Systems Acquisition Plan is intended to describe a high-level process for acquiring and maintaining IT systems. The Systems Acquisition Plan is a working document, which is expected to change over time as new project details emerge.
Create a high-level Project Systems Acquisition Plan for your project in a minimum of 1,050 words that includes the following information:
· A description and justification of the specific systems design and development approach (SDLC, RAD, Spiral, outsourcing, etc.) the enterprise will employ
· A summary of the steps in the systems acquisition process including initiation, analysis, design, acquisition, and maintenance
· A high-level overview of who will participate in each step of the systems acquisition process
Cite a minimum of 3 peer-reviewed references from the University of Phoenix Library.
Format consistent with APA guidelines.
Submit your assignment.
Resources
· Center for Writing Excellence
· Reference and Citation Generator
· Grammar and Writing Guides
· Learning Team Toolkit
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CHAPTER
Decisions and Processes: Value Driven Business
CHAPTER OUTLINE
SECTION 2.1
Decision Support Systems
SECTION 2.2
Business Processes
Making Organizational Business Decisions
Measuring Organizational Business Decisions
Using MIS to Make Business Decisions
Using AI to Make Business Decisions
Managing Business Processes
Using MIS to Improve Business Processes
What’s in IT for me?
Working faster and smarter has become a necessity for companies. A firm’s value chain is directly affected by how well it designs and coordinates its business processes. Business processes offer competitive advantages if they enable a firm to lower operating costs, differentiate, or compete in a niche market. They can also be huge burdens if they are outdated, which impedes operations, efficiency, and effectiveness. Thus, the ability of management information systems to improve business processes is a key advantage.
The goal of Chapter 2 is to provide an overview of specific MIS tools managers can use to support the strategies discussed in Chapter 1. After reading this chapter, you, the business student, should have detailed knowledge of the types of information systems that exist to support decision making and business .
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4. mba 204 management information systems assignment 2nd semester
1. MBA 204 MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS Page 1
MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (MBA)
SEMESTER- II
SUBJECT CODE & NAME -MBA204 & MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS
SET- 1
Q.1 What are the different challenges a manager face in managing Information systems?
Answer:
Managing Information System in organizations is a highly challenging and complex task. One
reason for this complexity is that neither organizations nor the IS they use remain static over
time – both change continuously, and it is the job of management to ensure that the
systems remain useful and relevant for their organizational goals at all times. Organizations
change to respond to the needs of the business and economic environment in which they
thrive. They may have to change their services, their products, their internal structure, and
the manner in which they do their business to meet the challenges of the environment.
Organizations also change as their employees gain more experience and learn and adjust to
their work environment. The employees change the manner in which they work, including
the manner in which they work with IS, and with this they change the way processes within
organizations are carried out.
First-order and second-order effects
The outcome of the implementation of a new IS could be positive or not, and this will
depend on the situation at the organization. The outcomes that arise as a direct
consequence of the introduction of an IS are known as first-order effects. They are usually
visible in organisations in the form of increased speed of processing of data or increased
volume of processing and these are what any organization would have intended to gain
from the IS that it has implemented.
The first-order effects can be positive or negative depending on how the organization
adapts to the new system.
Effects of competition and organizational traits
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Whether an IS is successful and is able to meet its intended effects is largely dependent on
the organization it is being implemented in and on the competitive environment, culture,
structure, the processes the organization follows, and the IT infrastructure already in place
in the organization.
The competitive environment is the competition that the firm faces in the market in which it
operates. Often the decision for adopting an IS is based on what competitors are doing and
how one can keep up or get ahead of the competition. In the late 1990s many firms across
the world adopted e-commerce because that was the means by which they could remain
competitive in a rapidly changing environment.
Effects of organizational structure
The structure of an organization is the manner in which employees are constituted or
grouped within the organization. Many government departments, for instance, are
structured as a hierarchy where the highest level person has the greatest authority and
those reporting to that person are delegated responsibility and authority. For example, in a
government department the person at the top of the hierarchy would be a minister and
reporting to him/her would be secretaries. Below the secretaries would be joint secretaries
and so on, down to the lowest level consisting of offi ce workers. Along with authority, the
functions of different people in the hierarchy would also be different, and these functional
differences are used to create divisions, departments, and groups within the larger
department.
Support for organizational processes
Some organizations use information systems to change or challenge the existing hierarchy in
place. Workflow systems may alter the manner in which employees receive and process
documents, thus helping to introduce efficiencies in the process.
Q.2 Explain the concepts of
a) Transaction Processing System
b) Management Information System
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Answer:
a) Transaction Processing System
A transaction is any activity of the organization that generates information. For example, the
activities related to buying a ticket from the Indian Railways generates many transactions,
each of which produces information that is recorded by the systems. Some transactions
involve exchange of goods or services while others may be purely informational. A
transaction processing system records all the transactions as they happen. In this sense,
such systems are considered to be online systems.
When users initiate transactions, the systems respond in a pre-specified manner, such as
asking the user to fill in information about themselves. Most systems are designed to serve
many users simultaneously. They are also designed to respond quickly and in a manner that
makes the systems appear ‘live’ to the user.
Most transaction processing systems present carefully designed interfaces to the user that
guide the transactions. A transaction processing system helps the user during a transaction
by changing screens and the information on the screen.
This requires the systems to provide information that is relevant for the situation. The
exchange of information is highly sensitive to the context that is desired by the user.
Modern transaction systems allow users to change the information input by them and
backtrack to earlier parts of the transaction stream.
b) Management Information System
Management information systems (MIS) process the information generated by the
transaction processing systems of an organization and create reports for use by the
management. A typical MIS report may consist of the following information that depicts
various activities of the organization:
1. A report on the average daily sales of the organization with details for each product and
each region.
2. The daily production of goods.
3. The seasonal sales of the organization with regard to each region and product.
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4. The cash balances for each division, with details of inflows and outflows for the week.
5. A report on personnel and project assignments and the number of hours logged in by
each person for the month and for the week.
6. A report on printing and paper charges across the organization for the year, with details
related to divisions and seasons.
Q.3 How Information system can be used to support Competitive strategy? Substantiate
with suitable examples.
Answer:
The promise of information systems is that they enable the competitive strategy of
commercial firms. The competitive strategy of a commercial firm is its long-term
competitive position, such as of being a low-cost player or a differentiator, which the firm
adopts. A firm’s strategy is the set of activities it engages in as part of its long-term
competitive goals. Strategies lead to operational goals and to tactics that the firm
undertakes.
Long-term goals are of value to non-commercial organizations too. For example,
government departments may adopt a goal of reaching out to all citizens to provide
services, for which they can evolve a strategy based on information systems. Government
departments do not face competition as such, and their main concerns are of service
delivery and efficiency.
Competitive
Strategy
Use of Information
Systems
Example
Create barriers
to entry for
competition
To create barriers to entry
of
new competition, fi rms
may
lock-in existing customers
Yatra.com is an online
travel portal that enables
customers to buy airline
and railway tickets from
its site. It maintains a
5. MBA 204 MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS Page 5
with
loyalty programmes and
free access
accounts created with
Information systems. Data
from such loyalty
programmes
can also be used to
identify
customer tastes and
patterns
of buying to further
provide
them with goods and
services.
loyalty programme by
providing discount coupons
to customers who
Purchase frequently.
Reduce bargaining
power of
suppliers
The bargaining power of
suppliers
is reduced by creating
customized logistics
channels
with suppliers that enables
an exclusive access, thus
increasing costs for
suppliers
if they want to seek other
Customers.
Deutsche Post DHL has
information systems to link
all its partners in its logistics
Chain. This not only
creates barriers to entry
to competition, but also
prevents its suppliers from
Seeking other partners.
Reduce bargaining
power of
buyers
The bargaining power of
buyers
is reduced by providing
low-cost,
bundled services from
By creating an online
facility for buying tickets,
the Indian Railways has
reduced the need for its
Customers to seek
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a single source that is
highly
Customized to their needs.
They
would not be prone to
seek
alternative sources if a
sufficient
lock-in is created.
alternatives.
Provide low cost
Products
Transactions costs are
reduced by having
information
systems that increase the
Volume and speed of
transactions.
When scaled up, this
gives a significant
competitive
Advantage.
The ICICI Bank initiated
a network of automated
teller machines (ATMs)
across India to reduce
Costs of banking for clients.
Clients could access
their accounts any time
and easily.
Provide niche
Products.
A differentiation strategy is
possible by reaching out to
new markets and
customers
Using the Internet.
Information
systems help customize
offerings
and also provide high
efficiency levels for
implementing
The strategy.
The United Parcel Service
(UPS) created a special
information systems that
kept track of parcels as
They were shipped. This
was a unique offering,
differentiating it from its
Rivals.
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SET -2
Q.1 Explain the following concepts
a) Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
b) Online Payment Technology
c) Mobile Commerce
Answer:
a) Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
Before the growth of the common standards for the Internet and the growth of Extranets,
firms exchanged data electronically through private networks. This process was called
electronic data interchange (EDI). The EDI standards were initiated in the 1960s in the USA
and Europe to allow transportation firms to exchange data across national boundaries.
Later, many trade bodies evolved further standards for exchange of commerce-related data.
EDI standards are not similar to the data standards used by the Internet; they are based on
different, often proprietary, standards that are used only by the partner organizations.
b) Online Payment Technology
One of the biggest challenges posed to e-commerce has been the issue of payments. In a
typical commercial transaction conducted manually, a customer is able to pay cash for a
purchased item or pay by credit card. If it is by credit card, this transaction is verified by a
service to ensure that the card is valid, and then the transaction is posted. The seller can
also verify the authenticity of the buyer by seeing an identity card.
Online payment technologies address the issue of managing transactions in a secure and
efficient manner. Establishing the identity of the buyer is one of the first problems that the
payment technologies face. Once the identity is established, the next challenge is to have an
easy process by which the payment can be made without the intervention of too many
intermediaries and also at a reasonable cost. Once a payment has been secured, the
8. MBA 204 MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS Page 8
remaining problem is that of chargeback’s, that is cancellation, for some reason, of the
transaction and a subsequent reversal of the payment.
c) Mobile Commerce
With the pervasive availability of mobile phones, some firms have created innovative
payment solutions through mobiles. The idea is to create the twin assurances of security
and ease of payments with the mobile phone. One such service, known as Playmate, works
in a way discussed below.
The customer creates an account with Playmate that links to customer’s bank or the credit
card owned by the customer. The customer also provides her mobile phone number to
Paymate, which then gives the customer a unique personal identification number (PIN) that
he/she can use to verify the transaction. When the customer accesses an e-commerce
website and is ready to make a payment, he/she selects the Playmate option and provides
her phone number. At this point Palmate initiates an automated phone call to the customer,
asking the customer to enter his/her PIN. This acts as a verification. After this, Paymate
charges the customer’s bank with the relevant amount and sends a message to the
customer’s mobile about the same.
The main advantage of payment through mobile service is that it can be used without a
computer or access to the Internet and without a credit card. For this service to work, the
merchant has to have an account with the service, similar to the arrangements merchants
have with credit card companies.
Q.2 What is DSS? How it is different from MIS? How DSS helps in Decision making?
Answer:
Decision support systems (DSS) are used extensively across organizations to assist
managers with making decisions. DSS are different from management information systems
as they are used on an as-needed basis and created for solving special types of decision
9. MBA 204 MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS Page 9
problems. Decision making by managers involves the phases of intelligence, design, and
choice, and DSS help mainly with the choice part. DSS support structured and unstructured
types of decisions.
Modern approaches to decision support include analytics and artificial intelligence
techniques for predictive and real-time analysis of data. Use of tools such as neural
networks, decision trees, clustering, and visualisation are quite extensive.
MIS and DSS:
MIS essentially present data to managers in various forms and from various sources. The
intent of MIS is to enable managers to see the data pertaining to the functioning of the
organization in a summary manner that enables both a bird’s eye view as well as a
penetrating view of the data. MIS too process the data but in a manner as to show different
views and summaries. DSS, on the other hand, are designed to help managers with
decisions, and the analysis is meant only for a particular decision.
Differences between MIS and DSS
Management Information SystemsDecision Support Systems
Provide managers with data and
reports on a regular basis
Support managers for decision making
on an ad hoc basis
Reports are targeted for specific users,
especially management
Find use across the organization, by
whoever needs help with problems.
At the choice stage, the criteria and parameters for the decision help curtail the amount of
search required to arrive at a decision. If the criteria are not specified sharply then the
number of alternatives to be considered to arrive at a decision may be very large. This stage
may also require returning to the intelligence gathering activity, and then to the design
stage to change or modify the criteria and the weights used to apply them. In his seminal
work, Herbert Simon also showed that decision makers have bounded rationality, implying
that they are restricted in the number of choices and criteria they can actually bring to bear
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in a decision-making situation. These limitations exist, in part, because of the limits on the
cognitive abilities of humans or, in other words, the limits on the number of things that
people can think about at a time. Most people are content with a satisfactory answer, not
necessarily one that is the best or optimal.
DSS are designed to support mainly the choice stage of the decision-making process.
Managers can enter the relevant data into the system, select or priorities their criteria and
let the system decide on the final solution. Mathematical models are usually built into the
system to help analyse the data and arrive at solutions. Some modern software also assist
decision makers in the intelligence stage, where they seek out pertinent information from
organizational databases or from the Internet.
Q.3 Explain why privacy is important for individuals in the organizations? How workplace
electronic monitoring is done in the organizations?
Answer:
Information systems are used widely across organizations, and they enable data and
information to be widely distributed for use. When the data pertains to individuals (relating
to their work, personal habits, or personal life), and it resides on organizational information
systems, the question of privacy that arises here is: Whose data is this – of the individual or
of the organization?
Owing to the complex nature of information systems and the manner in which data is
created, stored, and manipulated, the answer to this question is usually difficult. To answer
the question of privacy one has to consider why it is important in the first place. Data and
information relating to individuals could be of sensitive nature. Some examples of such kind
of data are as follows:
1. Employees, who work extensively with computers, log in every morning when they come
to work and log out in the evening when they leave. During the working day, every time
they leave their desk or are not working on the computer, the system logs their inactivity at
work. For example, a United Airlines worker, in the USA, was threatened with job loss on the
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grounds that she had spent more than the allotted time in the bathroom, making her co-
workers take up her work.
2. Medical records detailing illnesses and treatments, hospital visits, and medication
routines are all stored on organizational databases that contain personnel data. The data is
specific to individuals and, for some organizations, also contains details about the
individual’s family members. In the USA, for example, the medical records of the famous
singer Britney Spears were read by employees of a hospital in which she was treated. The
employees later leaked the information to the press. Spears took legal action against the
hospital, which had to fi re several employees.
3. Web surfing activities of individuals are also logged by corporate web servers. Which sites
individuals have visited, how long they have been on the site, and what kind of material
they have downloaded are also logged. A multinational media firm, for example, threatened
to fi re an employee based on his visits to Yahoo.com from an office computer. The Firm had
obtained details about the employee’s surfing behavior from server logs.
4. Security systems in some organizations, which are based on swipe cards or security cards
that enable doors and offi ce buildings to be opened or accessed, retain records of all
individual movements across buildings and workplaces. Data pertaining to individual
movements is available in security logs. In the Vatican, for example, swipes were re-
introduced in 2008 to monitor the movement of employees. This was in response to
criticism that employees were ‘slacking off’. Even though the Pope was not entirely in favor
of such monitoring, it was introduced to improve efficiency of staff.
5. Many organizations also check all incoming and outgoing e-mails of their personnel. The
e-mails are checked for content and attachments. Some organizations either remove e-mails
containing certain keywords, such as expletives, or flag them to warn employees.
There are many possible ways in which electronic monitoring can be effected in
organizations. Some of these are as follows:
1. Use of digital video cameras for internal monitoring of employees, offices, hallways, and
buildings. The video footage is stored for later retrieval and viewing.
2. Use of computer network logs to record all use of fi les, visits to websites, and access to
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other computer networks and programs.
3. Scanning and storage of all outgoing and incoming e-mails from and to employees.
4. Use of employee identity cards to monitor physical movement of employees.
5. Access given to outside agencies to obtain personal data on employees, such as credit
card statements, bank records, medical records, and pharmacy purchases.
6. Access to all fi les on employees’ personal computers and laptops, including removable
storage devices.
Often, other types of workplace monitoring are also conducted by firms, such as testing for
drugs and alcohol. However, these are not dependent on digital technologies and are not
considered here.