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No. 1483:
Actually, narreapostel Jan Aage Torp has lost to me at all points, and I won at all points, hallelujah!
"Pastor" Jan Aage Torp went to frontal attack on me and the Heavenly Blog in the fall of 2014. With evil eye, hatred in sight and to hit me and my family hardest possible. But the full support of the police at Manglerud here in Oslo, the website Searchlight with anyone who wrote and frolic there and someone else who was indirectly included as the newspaper Norway today!
I stood mostly alone when I realized quickly that everyone who spoke to me was attacked in the worst possible way. I wish no one would be mixed in and dragged in to be blackened online and otherwise by the boors who were on Narreapostel Jan Aage Torp's side, and they were a few. Then there were some jokes in words, language use, or to say lack of language and speech online.
The fact is that there are no believers - true believers - who have supported Torp. Why? I believe this for several reasons, not least what the Word of God says that we as believers should not report each other and pull each other to justice. Although we disagree with someone, we should not run a lawsuit against anyone for expressing themselves in such a way that we do not agree or endorse.
Vebjørn Selbekk has eg. to Jan Aage Torp's great resentment every bell in his support for me. Here is from Jan Aage Torp's Facebook page where Torp is harsh and full of hate against the Lord, Vebjørn Selbekk, me and the Heavenly blog.
The goal of Jan Aage Torp when he was wondering the police and later the authorities that were soon too fooled as the Christian hatred that struck out in full bloom.
1.) Jan Aage Torp demanded money from me. 50.000, - kr.
2.) Jan Aage Torp wanted me imprisoned. 2 years was wanted.
3.) Jan Aage Torp wanted everything I have written and spoken removed. Both about themselves and others.
4.) Jan Aage Torp wanted me and the Heavenly Blog closed down and removed for good. These were his innumerable goals.
What has Jan Aage Torp achieved?
1.) That, as a believer, he is seen as a "betrayal" to the Christian faith. Then no true believer reviews and makes matters against each other.
2.) Through this case, Jan Aage Torp is known to be the Pastor who lives in adultery with being married. But that doesn't admit it. No one other than Torp has spread the message that it is against the word of God to be re-married as Pastor and preacher.
3.) Jan Aage Torp has not really achieved a single thing! I write and speak just as before, which nothing has happened!
Scripture words have come true.
Isaiah 54:17 No weapon that is forged against thee shall prosper, and every tongue that setteth thee shall be condemned; This is the inheritance of the servants of the LORD, and the judgment which they receive of me, saith the Lord.
Note that this word has come true to the letter. Not a word by Jan Aage Torp's wishes has happened. Everything has gone against him and he has become "celebrity" to break God's word.
Jan Aage Torp demanded this.
1.) Jan Aage Torp demanded money from me. 50.000, - kr.
Achieved: 0 kroner.
2.) Jan Aage Torp wanted me imprisoned. 2 years was wanted.
Achieved: 0 days.
3.) Jan Aage Torp wanted everything I have written and spoken removed. Both about themselves and others.
Achieved: Received his "own" blog: http://justismord.janchristensen.net/
4.) Jan Aage Torp wanted me and the Heavenly Blog closed down and removed for good. These were his innumerable goals.
Achieved: Got zero support from others, except at Finn Jarle Sæle who is as bad as Torp in many respects.
This is what Jan Aage Torp writes:
"There is statutory authority to impose fines on him. We will probably promote this instrument in the near future. There is good case law here. 12,000 kroner that a one-time fine hardly owes so much. But 1,200 kroner a day for 1000 days may be somewhat worse? "
This has been the goal and purpose of the evil Jan Aage Torp all the way. Try to crack me, showing that he's been playing and playing with the Evil One all the way with the same mission.
Joh.e. 10. 10 The thief comes only to steal and murder and destroy; I have come to have life and abundance.
Satan and Jan Aage Torp have the same agenda we can read about here.
It's stealing money, family and everything in from me. Here we read the following:
"The thief just comes to steal and murder and destroy!"
I have never wanted Torp something negative, on the contrary we have asked for him. The only one I think is not right with Torp, is that he should be an apostle, shepherd, and teacher for others. But being divorced and re-married, he is disqualified from being an apostle, shepherd, and teacher for others.
This is a theological and biblical point of view. Just like Jon Wessel-Aas pointed out what my concern was. I quote this here:
Media law attorney Jon Wessel-Aas reacts to violations of Clause 390a of the Criminal Code "because of troublesome behavior or other ruthless behavior having violated another's peace" is the basis of the case against Pastor Jan Kåre Christensen.
- I cannot comment on the details of the case, but I think in principle that dOne particular point is that this section is used because it is a matter of speech in a blog. So, Christensen does not seek out Torp by phone, text message or in any other way directly, but writes what he believes about him as a pastor in the blog. It is outside the core area of the relevant provision, says Wessel-Aas, who emphasizes that he only knows the matter through circulation in Vårt Land and by reading the actual decision of the case.
Wessel-Aas points out that the aforementioned provision in the penal code from the old has been called the "telephony law".
- It is clear that bullying and harassment in social media over time can make people not have the energy to be more. But I still think it is important that the court does not extend the penalty clause to too much. It is a point to be as concrete as possible when limiting freedom of expression through legislation, says Wessel-Aas.
Statements such as "living in adultery" make it more obvious to use the lien, the lawyer believes. Libel is decriminalized in the new Penal Code and can thus only form the basis for civil lawsuits. According to him, it seems more relevant in this case.
"I believe there is danger in the journey if the section in the Penal Code is expanded by adding something that is no longer criminal," says Wessel-Aas.
Public person. - What consequences can any judgment have?
- If there is a criminal conviction in line with the charge, I believe much else can be judged in the same way. It will make the boundaries of freedom of expression unclear, which in turn can cause people to avoid expressing themselves, Wessel-Aas replies and points out that there are nevertheless provisions to protect against untrue accusations, violations of privacy, threats and incitement to violence .
Wessel-Aas points out that Torp is a well-known figure in Christian-Norway and far in the same position as many politicians.
- The room must be larger when it comes to public opinion.
Christensen disagrees with how Torp practices the relationship between life and learning, ie his interpretation of biblical texts, emphasizes Wessel-Aas.
- Also, the ceiling height must be large.
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Final Comment:
Only takes a little in the end that it is exactly the same as Vebjørn Selbekk pointed out. That this is a spiritual and moral affair, and has nothing to do with harassment, heat and cyberbullying. It's like the East is from the West.
This writes Vebjørn Selbekk.
Bible lesson from the witness box
Jan Kåre Christensen brought his well-used Bible with him when he yesterday took his place in the witness box in room 519 in Oslo District Court. The court's members, the audience and the press in the tiny and crowded courtroom witnessed something as rare as a theological debate on divorce and remarriage.
Christensen and his lawyer Brynjar Meling based their entire defense on the fact that the characteristics that the accused has brought on the web about Pastor Jan-Aage Torp, are only religious opinions. The various words and expressions used were defended with reading from the leather-bound book Christensen brought with him. The Bible references flew back and forth between the defender's space and the witness box.
Words like "adulterer" were explained by the religious language the Bible itself uses, or the "Canaan language" which Christensen himself termed it as from the witness box. He argued that the New Testament denotes people who differ and marry someone other than their original spouse, in this way. Therefore, Christensen believes that he has only criticized a well-known and highly profiled Christian leader for not living in covenant with the Christian faith.
The use of other, more non-religious terms such as "power man", "narcissist" and resembled defender Christensen with theological disagreements about the way Jan-Aage Torp has run his parish activities. Among other things, the court heard about an acquaintance of Christensen who should have given NOK 1.5 million to Torp, but since regretted it. Torp himself admitted, furthermore, in his testimony that also he on his website has called Christensen both for "pleasure lies", "idiotic", "ruminant", "naughty", "evil and stupid" and communicator of "social pornography"
It is these very special religious overtones that make the case against the "harassment pastor" Jan Kåre Christensen so special. That is why it becomes more than a common case of privacy infringement. Or something more than a quarrel between two Oslo pastors who do not exactly practice the warmest brotherhood community.
In isolation, there is no doubt that Jan Kåre Christensen's characteristics of pastor Torp are far beyond any decency. Most people will probably perceive Christensen as a kind of Christian webmaster.
But - and it's a big "but" here. If this is a matter of religious utterances, they will in practice have a stronger protection than harassment statements without such a faithful basis. Ubaydullah Hussein, the well-known and infamous leader of the Prophet's Ummah, was released last summer by the Court of Appeal for wool carried out terrorist acts online. It also applied to a terrorist act that had demanded Norwegian human life, the action against the partly Statoil-owned oil facility in In Amenas in Algeria. The court assumed that in this case it was a religious statement. Hussain's praise of Allah for this bloodshed was based on Hussein's own violent interpretation of Islam.
These cases are not directly comparable. But they both say something about the space of religious opinion, even when what is said or written is perceived as offensive and abominable by the vast majority.
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Jan Aage Torp really hung up a hanger to me like the evil Haman.
Today he hangs in himself and all of Norway, Europe and the world knows that he is a coward who reviews Christian people and does everything to get them removed. This is evil both in God and in people's eyes, fortunately! Even his own children have renounced him, at that level Torp lives today.
Had Torp been a man of God, he would have left everything to the Lord. Because it is the Lord who belongs to the judgment, no one else.
I have only wanted one thing, it is to be allowed to freely proclaim the whole of God's counsel for salvation. Wherever one is allowed and allowed to warn against re-married publishers!
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TEMPLEOGUE Tennis Club's Ciara O'Toole is gearing up for the start of an exciting four-year scholarship in Campbell University in North Carolina in August.
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Background to the Study
The term management information system (MIS) is a relatively recent addition to the vocabulary of management and was widely adopted following the accelerated use of computers in the early 1960s. Prior to that time, electronic data processing (EDP) was the most frequently used term to describe the computer usage. This earlier stage reflects the view that the computer was little more than a fast calculator for large scale, routine, clerical applications which had formerly been done manually. As these computer applications became more complex, hardware storage capacities grew and technology improved for connecting previously isolated applications. As more and more data were stored and linked, managers sought greater detail as well as greater abstraction with the aim of creating management reports from the raw stores data.
The term "MIS" arose describe such applications providing managers with information about sales, inventories and other data help in managing the enterprise and also improving planning and control of operations needed for effective decision making by managers.
According to the oxford advanced learners dictionary, management can be defined as the cat of running and controlling a business or similar organizations. While information based on the oxford learners dictionary can be seen as facts or details about somebody or something then system is a group of things, pieces of equipment etc that are connected or work together, we can now define MIS as a process by which equipments are connected together in order to provide individuals with information necessary for the upkeep of their organization which can as well be controlled.
Information can be seen as raw data that has been processed into meaningful and useful context that has been processed into meaningful and useful context for specific end users (Brian 2002). This information can also be seen as data shaped into a meaningful form for human being to use. Information which is seen as the backbone and bedrock of any organization may be internal or external depending on the kind of information which would be of use to the organization.
Before the processing of information for useful context, facts, figures, numbers, symbols etc were seen as raw data which was gotten from individuals and places. In order to make raw data become information, it needed the help of the information system (IS) to process these raw data into information and make them ready for the upkeep of the organization. Okolo (2011) defined information system as a set of interrelated components that collect, retrieve, process, store and distribute information to support decision making, coordination and control in an organization. In addition, it also helps managers and workers to analyze problems, visualize complex subjects and create new products. Before now, paper based work were recorded as information with duplicates in a file for reference purpose until when the computer age came invoke and reframed all methods of which information were kept into becoming technologically wise.
The information system may have a combination of people who are the end users of the information, the hardware – the devices used in the processing of information, the software –the instructions which you give to the computer which then involve the system analyst or programmers as the case may be. This programmer/ system analyst creates a design by which users of the information can manage their organization effectively.
What then is Management Information System?
Management Information System (MIS) according to Brian (2002) is the collection of data processing equipment, procedures, software and people that integrate the subsystems of the organization and provides information for decision making on planning and controlling operations. This entails the collection of raw data, the step to follow, the instruction to give, specialist that will help in integrating the software into the system so as to produce information needed by the organization for the day to day running of the business. A management information system is an integrated man machine system that provides information to support the planning and control function of managers in an organization. The word integrated man machine involves the collection of the machines/equipments with the people involved in the information. Once the result of an MIS is information, it serves as a managerial function. Who then is an office manager? Since an office is a room or a building where an individual works and a manager is a person who is in charge of running a business or a similar organization. We then collectively define an office manager as an individual who coordinates and controls the activities of his colleague under his care. An office manager can be seen as one has the administrative responsibilities of office management. He is seen as an individual distinct from the other employee. He directs, supervises and co-ordinate the affairs of his employee making sure that they work effectively and efficiently towards high productivity.
An office manager may not just mean an individual with massive control. It could mean an individual with massive control. It could mean any person/individual who is in hold of information to arrive at a decision. A student who is in hold of information is seen as an office manager because it is with this information that the support of decision making is known in an organization. That is why it is said that when a system provides information to persons who are not managers, then it will not be considered as part of a management information system.
Management Information System help management design information system that provide them with information about events occurring inside the organization as well as in its external environment which is vital for effective decision making. Management Information System according to Okolo (2011) can be defined as a system to convert data from internal and external source into information and communicate that information in an appropriate form to managers at all level to enable them make timely and effective decision making for planning, directing and controlling the activities for which they are responsible. An example of organizations that uses the design of management information system in managing information effectively is the banks. They have database of their customers and clients and it is with their databases that the management information systems are been designed and managed effectively.
Management should ensure that equipment needed for the retrieval and distribution of information are upgraded with the help of the system analyst. Management as well must be involved in making effective contribution to the system designs of their organization and likewise and the analyst must be aware of the managerial needs so that jointly, more effective management information systems are developed.
Statement of the Problems
Despite the vast advancement of technology in the world, most organizations and individuals still find it difficult to acquaint with the world globalization. This as a result reduces work efficiently and effectiveness. Technology is seen as the use of scientific knowledge for improving the way to do things. One would use scientific knowledge to invent machines or devices to make things easier to do. Just as management information system is technological means of how information could be managed which was brought about by inventors of the world.
Based on the topic, the relevance of management information system on the performance of office managers in some selected business organization, it was realized that certain factors were the loopholes to managing information. They are lack of management involvement in the designs of MIS of their organization, the problem of system analyst overlooking the user's acceptance, the problem of the user's of information on how to manage this information, poor appreciation of management support. All these filed as the problem faced by management and specialist in the design of how information can be managed.
Purpose of the Study
The major purpose of this study was to determine the relevance of management information system to the performance of office managers in some selected business organizations. Specifically, the study was to;
1. To identify the types of management information system in your organization.
2. Find out the relevance of management information system to an office manager.
3. Find out the shortcomings of MIS to an office manager.
Research Questions
This study sought answers to the following research questions:
1. What are the types of management information system in your organization?
2. What extent has the relevance of MIS to an office manager?
3. What extent has the shortcomings of MIS affected the office manager?
Significance of the Study
In all but the smallest organizations, management rarely observes operations directly. They attempt to make decisions, prepare plans and control activities by using information which they obtain from formal sources and by informal means. As a matter of fact, an MIS is a special purpose system useful for management in an organization. It is an accessible and rapid conveyor belt for appropriate high quality information from its generation to its users. Before now users of information recorded every data on papers not until the era of technology came in place and changed every means of applying information with the aid of the electronic data processing (EDP). With the help of innovators, various methods were adopted in the implementation of managing information.
Because of the place of technology in the world, the outcome of this topic will be beneficial to the schools because it help in managing information of pupils, guardians and parents and teachers.
The finding of the study will help ICTs of higher institution of learning on how information could be managed based on the databases of all individual thereby giving appropriate information to those required to have the information.
Teachers in the field of management will benefit from this as it will them in handling the subject proficiently and effectively at any given time. Managers in various organizations will equally benefit from this research work as it will provide them with right understanding of management information system. It is also hoped that discoveries of this study will be beneficial to students who offer courses related to information management.
Scope of the Study
This study was delimited to the relevance of management information system on the performance of office managers. It focused on the types of management information system operating in some selected business organization and also looked at the individuals involved in the management of information who are as well seen as those in hold of information.
In this chapter relevant literature related to the present study were reviewed. The review was presented under the followings headings;
- The types of management information system in an organization
- The relevance of management information system to an office manager
- The shortcomings of management information system
- Summary of related literature.
The types of Management Information System in an Organization
The type of management information system that will be used by an organization depends on the teamwork or members of the organization. As previously said, MIS can be defined as the process or system of providing information needed to manage an organization effectively through the help of the decision makers. By being able to get the right information to the right people and at the right time, you have properly designed a management information system. The information when gotten will enhance effective decision making which is been played by the office managers in the organization.
Management Information System according to Okolo (2014) is an integrated man-machine system that provides information to support the planning and control function of managers in an organization. The output of an MIS is information that serves managerial functions. When a system provides information to persons who are not managers, then it will not be considered as part of an MIS. Generally, MIS deals with information that is systematically and routinely collected in accordance with a well-defined set of rules.
The term "MIS" talked about computer based information systems which are the types of technology. Management Information System can also be summarized as a system used to convert data from internal and external source into information on the basis of management needs. The management needs may be; what way can an organization's information be managed, what kind of information can suit our organization. This and many more may be the management needs of your organization.
The types of management information system according to Kendall (2005) are transaction processing system (TPS), office automation system and knowledge work system, decision support system, executive support system, the expert system and Artificial Intelligence.
The transaction processing systems are computerized information systems that are developed to process large amounts of data for routine business transaction such as payroll and inventory. They help managers with the data generated about what is happening in their companies and carry out the day to day operations smoothly and without interruption.
The office Automation System and Knowledge work system help professional like engineers, doctors, scientists in their effort to create new knowledge and contribute to the society at large while the office automation system like spreadsheet, word processing etc analyses how it is transformed before sharing it.
The decision support system which is similar to MIS depends on the database as source of data that will aid decision making.
The executive support system helps executive organization with their interaction with the external environment by providing graphics and communication support in accessible places such as board rooms or personal corporate offices.
The expert system and artificial intelligence involves an expert being able to develop machines that behaves intelligently. This are understood as languages that solve problems of business users in an organization.
Nwachukwu (2012), otherwise stated its own types of management information system as;
Transaction Processing System (TPS) which handle s large volume of transactions commonly used by banks and large supermarkets.
Operational Information System (OIS) gathers raw data, organizes it and summarizes it in a form that will be useful for managers.
Decision Support System (DSS) which is a computer system that can be used by managers without help from computer specialist. It provides managers with the necessary information to make informed decision. It has three (3) fundamental components: Database management System (DBMS) which stores large amount of data relevant to problems the DSS has been designed to tackle, model based management system (MBMS) which transforms data from the DBMS into information that is useful for decision making, dialog generation and management system (DGMS) provides a user friendly interface between the system and the managers who do not have extension training.
Expert system and Artificial Intelligence uses human knowledge captured in a computer to solve problems that ordinarily needs human expertise.
All these type of management information system can be applied based on the capacity size of the organization and how useful it will be to them.
The Relevance of Management Information System to an Office Manager.
A significant part of an individual working and personal time is spent recording, searching for absorbing information. As much as eighty (80) percent of a typical executives time is spent in the processing of information, communication of information and use of information, outputs such as documents, reports, analysis, plans etc all help the office manager.
According to dictionary of business terms (2007), an office manager is one who has the administrative responsibilities of office management. The institute of administrative management defined office management as that branch of management which is concerned with the management of business safeguards its assets, promotes its affairs and achieve its objectives. The job description of an office manager will vary from another depending on the size of the organization. For most large organization, office manager may be divided depending on the department while in small organizations; he may be responsible for personnel and accounting offices. An office manager ensures smooth running of the organization by handling and managing the data of work, accounting and scheduling of organizational plans, meetings and changes or improvement in the company and within the staff. It is as a result of this that Agbo, Isiaku and Anikene (2007) defined office management as the art of guiding the personnel of the achieve its specific purposes. The specific purpose of the personnel must be working towards efficiency which is to the better growth of the organization.
Individuals and companies alike manage information in one form or another which serves as their organization system. So whether you are using stacks of paper forms, legal pads, handwritten ledger etc or you have deployed a server and an application to assist in automation processing and reporting, you have a management information system. Management information system is not designed to be just a technology infrastructure but infrastructure of how information is transmitted and received in an organization. Presently, computer and information system play several vital role in the smooth running and implementation of various organizational activities such as the formulation of a business plan, formulation and selection of business operating protocols and securities, design of data bank etc. this new development saddle the office mangers with the task of planning, coordinating and directing research and facilitate the computer related activities of firms. They help determine both technical and business goals in consultation with top goals. All this requires a strong understanding of both technology and business practices (McLeod, 1995). Scholars all over the world have resorted to internet as personal library where all necessary information can be obtained and displayed while computers have significantly altered business management (Bee, 1999).
Oladejo (2007) described MIS as a system using formalized procedures based on data from both internal and external sources to enable decision makers make timely and effective decision for planning, directing and carrying out the activities for which they have appointed. This connotes that MIS is a system responsible for the collection, processing and communication of defined data in order to enhance prompt decision making. MIS which is presently the organization nervous system responds to opportunities and avoid threats. It is widely acknowledge that firms with the best and most effective information systems are those that have clear and well thought of information strategy (Harizanova, 2003). Since in small organization where office manager is seen as a "jack of all trade" as a result of their great deal of work, Laudon (2006) observed three categories of managerial roles based on Mintsberg. They include the informational, interpersonal and decisional role.
In the interpersonal role, managers act as figureheads for the organization by representing their companies with the outside world and also acting as liaison between various organizational levels. In the informational role, managers acts as the nerve centre of their organization by receiving accurate information and redistributing it to those who need to be aware of it. They are seen as the spokesperson for their organization while in the decisional role manager's act as entrepreneurs by initiating new kind of activities like allocating resources to staff members who need them and negotiating conflicts among conflicting groups.
MIS whose basic importance is information in order to arrive at a deliberate decision making must be of concert from various levels of management such as the strategic, tactical and operational level. These various levels when not contacted may reduce the job performance of worker in the organization which makes no meaning. Since an office manager is the overseer of all administrative responsibilities like hiring salaries and working conditions of workers etc in small organization it is advisable he sticks to the functions which makes him best among others.
The usefulness of management information system to an office manager would make him forecast future plans, make decision and also control activities with the information gotten either through the internal or the external source. Once the task of an office manager is been performed and accomplished, he is said to have made a performance analysis. A manager wrote that a good office manager makes it possible for other people to function efficiently. Office managers work closely with the company partners, owner or president to meet their companies staffing equipment and organizational needs.
An office manager must exercise sound judgment day in and day out and any lapse can result in termination. This as a reason makes office manager take their job so seriously. Office managers have a very high turnover rate, due to firing, job mobility and retirement. They are often the first one to be let go when conflicts arise between producers and managers and they are frequently blamed for office problems that are not of their own making. This made Joan Lloyd and associates say that if one is not given anything to manage, then he is not an office manager because a manager has the authority to oversee the workflow of the people. The office manager would also have the authorioty to confront inappropriate behavior and have the power to enforce change or fire an employee who refuses to comply. Without all these required of an office manager, there will be ineffective performance of workers and low productivity in the organization.
The shortcomings of Management Information System
Information technology has offered several opportunities as well as posed challenges to various organizations. The development of computer systems has made the processes of data collection, storage, retrieval and manipulation easier in organization. Information systems help in enhancing the efficiency and goodwill of an organization. They provide a competitive advantage to the organization and help in differentiating it from other similar organizations.
MIS have several disadvantages but overall they still offer lots of benefits to organizations. The central disadvantages of these MIS include the work and expense of maintaining the system-updating, programming and auditing then system will take plenty of time and effect. With the right maintenance, the system will not perform to expectations and it will not prove to be a worthwhile investment.
There are certain challenges faced like the fact that MIS requires a wide variety of knowledge. It needs a lot of practical and technical experience as well as the high technology that comes with the products. The disadvantages of MIS can as well as be seen as the shortcomings which include;
- It requires highly sensitive constant monitoring
- There is lack of flexibility to update it
- As a result of frequent change in top management, it decreases effectiveness
- The budgeting of MIS is extremely difficult
According to blurtit (2012), some of the distinguishing challenges that the people face while planning, using or approving management information system are;
- MIS requires a wide variety of knowledge areas including accounting, finance, market and manufacturing. Therefore having both technical and practical experience in these subjects is very useful.
- Both technology and technology related products are emerging at high pace. Consequently no one possibly be proficient in all new technologies and compromises have taken to be taken.
- Many terms used in MIS are inaccurate and controversial because of high pace of new hardware, software and communication technology.
- MIS problems are difficult to define. Sometimes a situation may be seen as a problem but in fact it may be a symbol only.
- There is a lack of sympathetic relationship between MIS personnel and users and management and MIS personnel because employees are more loyal to their profession rather than needs of the organization.
Thus also are some of the shortcomings/challenges encountered in MIS as;
- Information technology which has an important role has made many organizations to change the way they do business by redesigning their business process. As a result of the change in technology, people who are knowledgeable about the business are brought to a decline thereby making some of them unemployed.
- Planning and managing communication network which helps the organization to process and communicate information through appropriate internal and external communication networks.
- Building a technology infrastructure that will support existing applications while remaining responsive to change is a key to long-term enterprise productivity. This task is made difficult by the continuing rapid changes in infrastructure technology and the increasing breadth and depth of applications which is need to be supported.
- Developing and managing distributed systems posed as challenges by the client server which include maintaining consistent software versions. The client server is useful for distributing applications across an environment.
Another author form the ETH-Zurich said that challenges may be managing the information systems facing the employees in the organization and the challenge in managing information system that affect employees way of working, research must be made to understand employee's response to the information system and how they should use it to be more efficient and effective at work. In the area of managing information system that interface organization to their customers they begin by designing and developing the particular information system such as mobile application. When information systems of interest are available, organization assesses their customer's behavior with the information systems towards the attainment of the organizations target goal.
Management Information system is broad in terms of technology and as such not yet everyone can be a master of information. Without the shortcomings, it is assumed that MIS is a perfect technology in the world without minding that the world of technology changes.
Summary of Literature Review
In order to summarize all headings presented in the previous chapter, we discussed the types of management information system implemented by various organizations and how it performs work faster. This led into finding out how relevant MIS is to the office manager who ensures smooth running of their establishment. It went as far as bringing out points like enhancing quick decision making, increasing workers productivity, enhancing easy communication among employees etc. management information system which has made great impact in most organization though have made success but there are other lapses which no matter how technology must have made way, not everyone will or may adapt to the change and as a result some shortcomings were encountered like an individual not having the required skill needed in the management of information system. This will as a result ensures that organization train their members/employees which will definitely cost them much so as far the employee to be able to operate their MIS. Another problem identified is that of how design of an organization differs from the other organization because the workload of these organization are not the same and this is where the implementation of software that suits your organization design comes in place.
To conclude it is therefore seen that though technology played a good role in business but still there stand to be success as well as failure.
MIS is a collection of manpower, tools, procedures, and software to perform various business tasks at various levels in the organization Tripathi (20011).
This system has three basic levels: Operational, Middle management and top management where there information is passed from bottom to top Tripathi (20011). Mruthy, (2006) sees management information system as one of the important functions on management which plays an important ole in providing information that is required for crucial decision-making which directly effects the performance of the organization. Furthermore, Lucy (2005) sees management information system as a system to convert data from internal and external sources into information and communicate that information in an appropriate form, to managers at all levels in all functions to enable them make timely and effective decision for planning, directing and controlling the activities for which they are responsible.
Laudon and Laudon (1991) define management information system as management support systems that provide routine summary reports on the organization's performance; used to monitor and control the business and predict future performance. Management information system refers broadly to computer-based systems that provide managers with the tools for organizing, evolution and efficiently running their departments. MIS is one type of information system that supports the tactical decision-making of managers, and also monitors the current state of the organization. Davies (2009).
Moreover, Kroenke (2007) mentioned that MIS has three key elements; they are development and use, information systems, and business goals and objectives. An MIS should be designed to enhance communication among employees, provide an objective system for recording information and support the organization's strategic goals and direction.
Management information system according to Atueyi (2001), is a formal system in the organization which provides management with the necessary reports to the utilized in the decision making process. This can otherwise be seen as the right way or procedure in which information flows to the management who then takes action/decision on what to do. It is a plan for effective decision making which outlines what should be done in each step of the decision making process.


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"Mid-week Notes" – A weekly column – 18/08/16
HE sounded confident that the worst was over and with that Terengganu Mentri Besar Ahmad Razif Abdul Rahman must be a much calmer man.
Unlike in most other situations, the Umno politician has been facing pressures and threats from no other that an own party man in Kijal assemblyman Datuk Seri Ahmad Said, his predecessor for one term.
Ahmad took over from Datuk Seri Idris Jusoh after the 2008 election in rather contentious circumstances, with the palace involved in the dispute over the choice of MB and the federal leadership flip-flopping in its decisions.
Immediately there was a bit of chatter by people familiar with the political personalities there that Ahmad was going to be different, rather difficult and combative too. A cowboy-like approach in the way he handled things was to be expected.
True enough and by the time his term was up, the national leadership decided that he had to go.
The ultimate test for any leader is in an election and compared to the one before that, BN, or rather Umno with the exception of one seat contested by the MCA, did very badly in 2013. That has left the governing coalition open to unnecessary pressures and in the case of Ahmad and those aligned to him, the threat to use the slim majority held by BN in the state assembly as a convenient weapon to unsettle Razif.
Ahmad has been doing this in the last few years, even having to gall to blame Razif's apparently ineffective leadership when in fact he was the one who caused Terengganu BN to be in such a precarious state in the assembly post-2013.
From having 24 seats in the 32-member assembly after the 2008 election, BN saw that reduced to only 17 five years later.
But despite his previous attempt to unseat Razif fizzling out recently, Razif would be well advised to not under-estimate his predator who is likely to keep lurking somewhere in the background.
Razif should be constantly reminded that the two-seat BN majority is Ahmad's best bet and he has often alluded to this in his campaign against Razif.
Uncertainties remain within opposition pact
Closer to the centre Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia or Pribumi Bersatu, the new party to be helmed by former deputy prime minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, awaits the approval of the Registrar of Societies to be officially registered.
While some in Umno have spoken out to dismiss this outfit, a few have called for caution.
It cannot be determined now how effective the former Umno senior politicians who are with Muhyiddin will be in attracting support but people have been talking more about the influence of the new party's prime mover, former prime minister Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad.
Reports from the ground indicate that it has not all been plain sailing and the response so far hasn't been earth-shattering.
Then there is also the matter of how fractious the opposition pact has become, with one of its previous main components, PAS, going a different way.
The place of the Islamist party has been taken over by its splinter Amanah but whether or not the latter is effectively filling up a vacuum has not been put to a serious test.
PKR is in it with Muhyiddin and Mahathir but here too there is an obvious anomaly.
Conspicuously absent from all the meetings and events the PKR politicians have been having with this group is its leader Datuk Seri Dr. Wan Azizah Ismail and her daughter Nurul Izzah, the mother also an opposition leader.
So it's an "I'm in but I'm also out" situation and as long as Mahathir is involved, it does look like the Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim clan will not want to be seen to be working with their "sworn enemy No. 1". Anwar has certainly told them to be very careful and doesn't want to see Mahathir hijacking his platform.
Wan Azizah has made statements that appear to show a willingness to work with this latest attempt by the opposition to evict BN from Putrajaya and at the same time stays away from Mahathir & Co.
How long more we have to wait to have a choice of a truly united opposition front is anyone's guess but it doesn't look like it'll be anytime soon.


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Now in its second year, this successful new program continues its work to improve the Federal Acquisition Service's (FAS) Multiple Award Schedules (MAS). The latest innovation: the Office of Professional Services and Human Capital Categories is streamlining the Professional Services Schedule (PSS) solicitation.
Over time, and with good intent, the current PSS solicitationhas grown to 167 pages with 17 sections and more than a dozen appendices and templates. The sheer volume and complexity of the solicitation requires refreshment and streamlining.
In support of our work to improve the PSS, FAS is requesting industry input on a draft streamlined Professional Services Schedule (PSS) solicitation which will make it easier for qualified contractors to submit offers.FAS's goal is to streamline the solicitation to require only information that is needed to effectively award new contracts and to eliminate confusion about the qualifications needed by industry to be awarded a PSS contract.
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It at least can feel like you're being spied on by Silicon Valley. Sometimes the ads that are served to us on our phones have a spooky quality that makes it seem like we are being tracked and even heard by advertisers, though the latter is hotly denied and may be infeasible. This weekend, my wife, the kids, and I spent time at my in-laws' for Father's Day celebrations. My children played on a little toy roller coaster for outdoors that their grandmother had bought for them. The next day, Amazon advertised the same product to us. We know Amazon can see the connection between my in-laws' household and our own. It knows we have kids who are the right age to play. But was it actually serving us this ad based on a good guess from our location data and my in-laws' purchase history that we might have enjoyed this toy?
Late on Sunday night, we were drinking a bottle of Argentine wine. For some reason, it made me think of an Australian wine, and I asked my wife if she would like to go back and live there as she did for just three months in 2006. Even though she lived then in the central business district of Sidney, she said she would prefer Melbourne. Within an hour, Facebook showed her a viral article about how Melbourne is the happiest city. Very likely it was a coincidence, but it didn't feel that way.
It doesn't feel like a coincidence because we know that Facebook, Google, and other tech companies do things that are almost more insidious than responding to what we say in private. The scope of their surveillance is actually difficult to describe, but the tech proprietor Maciej Ceglowski tried, in an important essay on the loss of "ambient privacy" in the world Silicon Valley is creating. He notes that the calls for regulation coming from the CEOs of Google and Facebook reflect their self-interest. They are happy to be told by the government how to protect the "privacy" of data generated by their surveillance, so long as they can profit from it. Ultimately their interest is in seeing the creation of a "world with no ambient privacy and strong data protections."
That is, Facebook and Google will still catalogue and analyze your behavior all across the Internet in ways that you barely realize. The regulation they desire is merely a way of removing responsibility from them for their decisions and imposing huge overhead costs on potential competitors. Most forms of "consent" to this surveillance turn out to be superficial. The amount of data Google and Facebook collect about the world sheds enough light for them to make accurate predictions about what exists in the spaces filled by non-users.
The tech giants know what sites you visit, what images you linger on, the identity of your friends and family. They can infer even secrets about your desires that you hardly admit to yourself. Facebook buys publicly available data sets to improve the value of their own data. It creates shadow profiles, compiling dossiers of information on people who have never created a profile on Facebook. Amazon was able to correctly guess and disqualify reviews of my book from people who attend the same parish that I do. If you described the surveillance and data-analytics capacity of Google or Facebook and attributed it to a foreign intelligence service, everyone would immediately recognize it as a dire threat to national security. But then you have to ask yourself: Is it the owner of the data that makes it dangerous or the existence of such a trove that is dangerous? Data leaks by Equifax and Facebook can be massively damaging.
There are lots of questions that politicians are not sophisticated enough to ask of the social-media giants. So far, the forays of Facebook and Google into political lobbying and public relations are rather crude. But, after the massive amount of criticism social media got for happening to be powerful media of communication for older voters when older voters endorsed Brexit and Donald Trump, has Facebook changed its ways? Obviously social-media companies are doing more politically motivated banning and censoring. But have they tried anything more sophisticated?
Does Facebook know how to change its newsfeed algorithm to demoralize one set of voters and motivate another? How would it use this power? Can Facebook's algorithm predict a user's slide into depression? How much money does Facebook make advertising depression remedies to users of Facebook? How does that compare to their investment in making Facebook itself addictive? Can Facebook, Google, or Amazon nudge people into or out of worldviews that are more or less profitable to Facebook, Google, or Amazon? That is, can they build algorithms that would respond to a user's interest in asceticism or charity and slowly prod them back toward conspicuous consumption? Would they build that algorithm if they could? Would their corporate clients demand it? Would their board demand it?
Many of these questions were part of the debates during the rise of mass media. If media are going to form our citizens, should enduring public interests govern the creation of that media? Or at least part of it? But the same questions still matter to social media, even more so, because social media are now more intimate even as they are more ubiquitous. That is, because everyone's social-media experience is individualized, the social criticism it receives is almost necessarily more diffuse. One can interrogate a director or a writer's room or a television studio about what they want to inspire with their movies and shows, what their intended effect on our souls is. Can we interrogate programmers the same way? Perhaps the worst feature of the Internet age is that skepticism and criticism of advertising's moral and political effect on society has gone into abeyance, even as advertising has become even more central to the business model of digital media.
Just as it would not console me that nuclear waste was deposited in the environment by a private firm, it is no consolation to me that Facebook is a privately held company. There are no real opt-outs. Facebook and Google's snooping pixels operate across nearly all news sites, most shopping sites, and beyond. The companies are willing to copy or buy publicly available data on me even if I stopped using them, which is hard to do anyway, as these platforms are often insinuated into communities. My child's kindergarten has a private Facebook group, and it is considered good manners to participate there.
We have been warned by Silicon Valley's critics that if you aren't paying for the product, you are the product. Fine. We aren't paying money for the surveillance society that Silicon Valley has created, but what is the cost to our society at large?


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