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- Newsgroups: comp.human-factors
- Path: sparky!uunet!wupost!calvin.sbc.com!asper
- From: asper@sbctri.sbc.com (Alan E. Asper)
- Subject: Re: MIS/IS MANAGER problems with employees?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.150039.15152@sbctri.sbc.com>
- Organization: Southwestern Bell Technology Resources, St.Louis, MO
- References: <1992Nov18.110920.12068@bsu-ucs>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 15:00:39 GMT
- Lines: 15
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- In article <1992Nov18.110920.12068@bsu-ucs> 00twgivens@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu writes:
- >soon-to-graduate senior at Ball State majoring in MIS/CS, are there any
- >problems with how much knowledge these end-users have? Do they know too much?
- >Are employees becoming too literate for the MIS/IS manager to control???
- >
- >Has anyone encountered problems with this? (i.e. employees deleting files,
- >security problems with employees, employees using their own software instead of
- >company requested software, editing of bat, exec files, etc.)
-
- Are you talking about deliberate sabotage, or possibly-harmful tinkering, or
- honest-but-destructive mistakes? First find out why your users are committing
- the destructive acts, then design the system to reduce them. The destructive
- acts, not the users.
-
- Alan
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