Major types of system in organization

There are mainly four types of system in organizational level. 1. Operation level system 2. Knowledge-level system 3. Management-level system 4. Strategic level system

Operational-level system
This support operational manager by keeping track of the elementary and transactions of the organization. Such as sales, cash, deposites and flow of the material in organization. This system that monitor the routines activities and transaction of the organization. For example TPS(transaction processing system) is work on base of operation level. In this system the rules and regulation are same for same organization but it will change when your organization change(ATM- Automated teller Machine).

Knowledge-level System
This system support the organizations knowledge and data workers. The main purpose of this level system is connecting to organization to add new knowledge and control the flow of paper works. It support the office system and knowledge work system(KWS). In office system works word processing, document imaging and electronic calendars (schedule), electronic mailing and it is design to increase the productivity of data and workers. Office system technology that facilities the creation of the documents, through computerized text editing, formatting, sorting and printing. In KWS support engineering , graphics work station.

Management-level system
This level system serve the monitoring, controlling, decisionmaking and administrative activities of middle managers. This support to control the employee to maintain the routine task of the organization. And also some time also ready to take the semi unstructured problem. This level system support two types of system decision support system(DSS) and Management information System(MIS). DSS support sales region analysis, production scheduling, cost analysis etc. This information system at the organizations management level that combine data and sophisticated analytical models or data analysis tools to support the semi structured and unstructured decision making. And MIS support sales management, annual budgeting, relocation analysis etc.

Strategic-level system
This level system support the long term planning activities of the senior management. The strategic may be for internal environment or external environment. This level plane long term approx five and ten year regarding business and market policy. It also serves the major business functions such as sales and marketing, manufacturing, finance, accounting and human resources. This level system support Executive Support system(ESS) This support five year sales trend forecasting , budget forecasting,

Relationship of system to one another

Planning
Planning is the managerial process of deciding in advance what is to to be done and how is to be done . It is not an end in itself, its primary purpose is to provide the guide lines necessary for decision making and resulting action throughout the organization. Planning is done on both formal and informal basis and the planning process uses information from internal and external sources. In short planning means. What is to be done in feature. How to do it. When to do it. Who is to do it.

Planning Elements
1. mission:- description of the organization as a whole.(it indicates general overall statement about the purpose, values and principals of the organization. ) 2. objectives:- statement of aim or goal to be achieved. 3. Plans:- statements of specifics action and activities to achieve objectives.(plans are sometimes described as strategies). 4. Policies:- limits to acceptable behavior in terms of priorities' , standards and so on. It is not action but they provide the way to management to take action in some ways.

Relationship of planning elements

Planning Problems
Planning is the important process in all organizations. 1. planning takes lots of efforts, time consuming task. 2. Planning is a hard mental work so it may be neglected. 3. planning makes evident the uncertainty of future events so that it require. 4. planning reduce the apparent freedom of action. 5. plans are often made and than ignored. 6. Lack of knowledge about the purpose and objectives of the organization and other departments. 7. Lack of confidence by managers about their ability to meet targets 8. Lack of appropriates information.