MIS AND THE USER

Every person in organisation is a user of mis A typical user is clerk , an assistant , an officer an executives or a manager Each of them has a specific task and a role to play in the management of business A clerk can use mis for a ouick search and reporting the same high level The mis offer the user tools to perform these tasks The mis offer the methods and faclities to integrate the data and report the same in proper format An ececutive play a role of a decision maker He is an responsible for acivement the targets and goals of the organisation The mis provide facilities to analyse the data and offer the decision support system to perform the task of execution

 The mis offer the method and facities to integrate the data and report the same in a proper form He is position of responsbility and accountability a position of a planner and adecision maker he is an person with a foresight an analytical ability and is expected to use these ability in function of the top management The mis provide information in a structured or unstructured format for him to react The user of misis expected to be a rational person and design the mis is based on this assumption However , this negative impact can be handled with proper training and counselling It observed that at lower level there is a sense of insecurity As the mis take away the search , collection , writing , and reporting the data , the work vacuum

 At the level of an officer and an executive the mis does the job of data manipulation and integration It analyses the data in a predetermined manner This means knowledge of business is transferred from an individual to the mis is avaliable to all in the organisation The manager , holding a position in the top or middle management , suffer from fear of challenge and exposure The mis makes his competitors more effective as they access to the information and have ability to interpret This leads to a situation where he is afraid that his position , decision and defence will challenged mqy be proved wrong sometimes The enterprising manager are able to use the system and models for trying out a number of alternatives in a given problem situation The impact of mis on people of the organisation is phenomenal as it has made same body of people collectively more effective and productive

 The recent major technological advances in communication such as multimedia , imaging , graphical user interfaces (GUI) , internet , web and ability to access the data stored at different location an the variety hardware of platforms would make MIS more efficient proposition Through mis the information can be used as a strategic weapon to counter threats to business bring about organisational transformation through integration