Last June 18, 2007 was our first day of class in our subject MIS
(Management Information Systems)
I was not surprised that our subject teacher would be Dr. Randy S. Gamboa because the older students had already told us that he handles MIS subject.
After a few introduction of the new faces in our class Sir Gamboa started our first discussion on MIS.
We had dissected MIS starting from M which is Management..
We learned that if we are talking about management we are dealing with PDOC;
the planning, directing, organizing and controlling.. these are the four
important steps in management.
'everyday and almost everything we are doing we doing some management',
this is idea is resulted from the definition of management we had, then we are asked,
if we could manage things could we be also managed?who manages us?
In my mind i answered 'we are managed by our parents, our teachers, etc.'but i was wrong, only things, data, processes are managed but not people.
People have feelings and are not robots which we could control.
Instead of people being managed, they are being facilitated, guided or led. From that, it showed us the difference of management and leadership.
Then we defined IS - Information Systems...
if IT is equated to as hardware + soft ware, IS on the other hand is equated to as hardware + software + people ware, thus IS = IT + people ware.
Therefore, logically, MIS = management ( hardware + software + people ware)
but wait....
We could recall that only things, processes, data could be managed not people.. People ware is a part of IS of which, as what we have learned previously, could only be led not managed..
There is a conflict about the real definition of MIS, should it be really MANAGEMENT or LEADERSHIP?
The discussion ended with a hanging question for us..
In my own point of view, leadership should be the right term to use.. People ware could only be led, and these people ware could manage the hardware and software.. This makes MIS a leadership among managers of hardware and software or IT or leading the IT industry to its right path to where it could benefit the many.
I was not surprised that our subject teacher would be Dr. Randy S. Gamboa because the older students had already told us that he handles MIS subject.
After a few introduction of the new faces in our class Sir Gamboa started our first discussion on MIS.
We had dissected MIS starting from M which is Management..
We learned that if we are talking about management we are dealing with PDOC;
the planning, directing, organizing and controlling.. these are the four
important steps in management.
'everyday and almost everything we are doing we doing some management',
this is idea is resulted from the definition of management we had, then we are asked,
if we could manage things could we be also managed?who manages us?
In my mind i answered 'we are managed by our parents, our teachers, etc.'but i was wrong, only things, data, processes are managed but not people.
People have feelings and are not robots which we could control.
Instead of people being managed, they are being facilitated, guided or led. From that, it showed us the difference of management and leadership.
Then we defined IS - Information Systems...
if IT is equated to as hardware + soft ware, IS on the other hand is equated to as hardware + software + people ware, thus IS = IT + people ware.
Therefore, logically, MIS = management ( hardware + software + people ware)
but wait....
We could recall that only things, processes, data could be managed not people.. People ware is a part of IS of which, as what we have learned previously, could only be led not managed..
There is a conflict about the real definition of MIS, should it be really MANAGEMENT or LEADERSHIP?
The discussion ended with a hanging question for us..
In my own point of view, leadership should be the right term to use.. People ware could only be led, and these people ware could manage the hardware and software.. This makes MIS a leadership among managers of hardware and software or IT or leading the IT industry to its right path to where it could benefit the many.
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