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Relevance Of Management Information System In The Achievement Of Organisation Objectives
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CHAPTER ONE
1.0 INTRODUCTION
The focus of this research study is
on the relevance of management information system (MIS) in the
achievement of organizational objectives. Information is an
indispensable resource in every organization, be it profit oriented
organization. We are actually in an information era, though organization
had passed through different era, the manufacturing and industrial era.
An organization’s activities get improved with timely accurate and
pertinent information that helps to make better decisions in every
organization.
Management information system consists of people,
equipment and procedures to gather, sort, analyze, evaluate and
distribute accurate timely and pertinent information or management
decision makers. The chapter broken down into sub-headings via back
ground of the study, statement of problem purpose of the study, scope of
the study, research hypothesis research questions, significant of all
study, limitation of the study and definition of terms. Each sub-heading
is discn. Td one after the other below
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
The
problem of management information system (MIS) as an important tool to
achieving organizational objectives is challenging to managers of any
organization especially the modern day managers. No organizational can
realized its goals and objective without a conscious effort using a well
organized management information system, thus, organization are
concerned with goal achievement having mobilized and allocated resources
including information. The essence of this study is to show the
relevance of (MIS) to management and to ascertain whether it has helped
in facilitating decision making or management and to determine the
extent to which it has enabled planning, control and operational
function of an organization.
Planning requires management information
system the managers have to retrieve information system is the
reception of facts and ideas and it is very essential to organization as
in their planning and controlling functions. In terms of achievement of
organizations objectives, accurate information is necessary.
1.2 STATEMENT OF PROBLEM
The
essence of every research undertaking is the solve teething and novel
problems posing serious threats to the life, success and survival of any
organization, we can as well say that management information system in
its own respect is the life wire of an organization and it has been
widely used and acknowledge, it is a very sensitive function used by
management.
Many organization have realize their targets with aid of
the management information system and still there is lack of management
expertise in adequately managing their information system for
improvement although they might have one form of information system or
the other, let us state the inherent problems that bedevil the
management of organization like NITEL so as to have a focus as to
determine the solutions by the ends of the work such inherent problems
are:
1. That most organizations do not have efficient management
information system and if they have, there information systems are not
effective as to its role towards goals and objective attainment.
2.
Most managers are governed by intuition and judgment as to what course
of action to follow in their planning and decision making function, many
of them as a matter of fact do not make use of the information supplied
to them from within and outside the organization and if they do, to
some degree, the receive form the business environment.
3. There is
also the problem of evaluating the impact of management information
system towards the achievement of objectives. Many managers are yet to
capitalize and utilize information for decision making and goals
attainment. Therefore the questing as to whether management information
system enables organization achieve their objectives has to be addressed
in this research study.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]In recent times there have been a growing concern on management information as a very important resource useful in any organization. The realization of the management information system (MIS) need is not restricted to business organizations only. The growth and the complexity of firms have necessitated the call and need for effective and efficient management information system. There have been wide spread cases of inefficient decision-making, lack of accurate information, which shatter the effor ... Continue reading---
