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- From: cockrill@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Jeremy Cockrill)
- Subject: Re: MIS/IS MANAGER problems with employees?
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- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 20:48:55 GMT
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- 00twgivens@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu writes:
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- > With all of the new and advancing technologies in the area of MIS/IS,
- >users are becoming more and more fimiliar and educated in these areas. As a
- >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.)
-
- I hate to nit-pick or sound like a flamer, but your sentence "Are employees
- becoming to literate for the MIS/IS manager to control???" struck a chord
- within me. As a MIS/CS student, you should know that it is not the place
- of a manager to "control" the users. Instead, the manager should "manage"
- the resources of the firm; one of the resources being the talents and
- knowledge of the employees.
-
- You are correct, however, in stating that users are becoming more familiar
- and educated in the areas of the advancing technologies. This may make
- it more difficult for the manager to manage such resources if he or she
- has no idea of the resources (knowledge) available. But, as a MIS/CS
- student, you should also understand that any technological field is not
- static -- you will have to keep up with technology at, or above, the level
- of the "typical" user in order to remain valuable as a manager. But that's
- one reason that you chose MIS/CS, no?
-
- --Jeremy Cockrill
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