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Information systems are usually more to do with people than technology. Over the last century the task of management in organisations has been studied by...

      

Information systems are usually more to do with people than technology. Over the last
century the task of management in organisations has been studied by many academics. Their
studies have been categorized under three main headings:-
Technical-Rational, Behavioural and Cognitive.
a. Outline the major aspects of each of these headings;
b. List the people involved in developing an information system.

  

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gregory
Outline of Technical-Rational, Behavioural and Cognitive management
theories. a. Outlines
i. Technical-Rational:-
The organization is perceived as a closed system in which the efficiency and effectiveness
depend on the precision of operation, the creative design and integration of the individual
parts. The managerial role is to plan, measure, control, organize, co-ordinate the parts such
as machinery, operators, jobs and tasks so that they function as efficiently as possible. This
perspective can have two variants, the scientific school which focuses on the factory floor
and the administrative-bureaucratic which focuses on the office administration.
ii. Behavioural:-
Appeared after the technical-rational perspective and considers people who work in an
organization not being automata. It considers the role of small groups, their norms and
working environment. Considers the organization as an open system and the efficiency and
effectiveness depends on how the group continually adapts to its environment and its ability
to rearrange itself internally so that it can =fit‘ the current environment in which it operates.
Here again there are two variants, one which focuses on the psychological and social-
psychological needs of the employees and the other focusing on the organization and its
structure and its ability to adapt to the rapidly changing environment in which it operates.
iii. Cognitive:-
This is concerned with the ability of an organization to =know‘ and =learn‘ from its own
environment and from the environment in which it operates. The organization‘s efficiency
and effectiveness depend on its ability to gather, create, store, classify, disseminate and use
information and knowledge that it accumulates over time. The managerial role is to make
sense of the latent information and knowledge available to them together with their own
intuition and experience, to perceive problems and design solutions and to build an
information and knowledge processing infrastructure for the organization.
b. People involved in the development of an information
system: o User
o Systems analyst- to provide system requirements.
o Programmers- to code software.
o Project manager- He is in charge of the project.
o Senior organizational management- they approve and take part in reviewing the
development effort.
o Experts in various fields to provide views needed in the feasibility study.
o Software and hardware maintenance vendors to provide maintenance and support
(if it is not carried out by the organization).
gregorymasila answered the question on February 15, 2018 at 16:29


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