Management Information Systems

Paper Summary:

This paper explores the socio-technical impact of management information systems (MIS) for organizations that use information blocks and management interaction. Furthermore, it addresses employees' reactions to such systems that track and measure an individual's performance and ability. The paper then shows the management and employees varied expectations of the same system.

Table of Contents:
Introduction and Overview
MIS Utilization and Employees Reactions
Management Expectations VS. Others
System Developer Expectations
Conclusions

From the Paper:

"Managers are the key factors to strategic success of their organization especially with properly built MIS. Managers have to determining the business value of using information system and they have to select information systems that employees capable to use and understand how the new information system works. As a result, the managers should first established new policy to rebuild trust with their workers and then use the MIS tools properly to benefit the organizations. MIS will not fulfill managerial tasks and create artificial manager."

Sample of Sources Used:

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