CHAPTER ONE
1.0 INTRODUCTION
The focus of this research study is on the relevance of management information system (MIS) in the achievement of organizational objectives. Information is an indispensable resource in every organization, be it profit oriented organization. We are actually in an information era, though organization had passed through different era, the manufacturing and industrial era. An organization’s activities get improved with timely accurate and pertinent information that helps to make better decisions in every organization.
Management information system consists of people, equipment and procedures to gather, sort, analyze, evaluate and distribute accurate timely and pertinent information or management decision makers. The chapter broken down into sub-headings via back ground of the study, statement of problem purpose of the study, scope of the study, research hypothesis research questions, significant of all study, limitation of the study and definition of terms. Each sub-heading is discn. Td one after the other below
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
The problem of management information system (MIS) as an important tool to achieving organizational objectives is challenging to managers of any organization especially the modern day managers. No organizational can realized its goals and objective without a conscious effort using a well organized management information system, thus, organization are concerned with goal achievement having mobilized and allocated resources including information. The essence of this study is to show the relevance of (MIS) to management and to ascertain whether it has helped in facilitating decision making or management and to determine the extent to which it has enabled planning, control and operational function of an organization.
Planning requires management information system the managers have to retrieve information system is the reception of facts and ideas and it is very essential to organization as in their planning and controlling functions. In terms of achievement of organizations objectives, accurate information is necessary.
1.2 STATEMENT OF PROBLEM
The essence of every research undertaking is the solve teething and novel problems posing serious threats to the life, success and survival of any organization, we can as well say that management information system in its own respect is the life wire of an organization and it has been widely used and acknowledge, it is a very sensitive function used by management.
Many organization have realize their targets with aid of the management information system and still there is lack of management expertise in adequately managing their information system for improvement although they might have one form of information system or the other, let us state the inherent problems that bedevil the management of organization like NITEL so as to have a focus as to determine the solutions by the ends of the work such inherent problems are:
1. That most organizations do not have efficient management information system and if they have, there information systems are not effective as to its role towards goals and objective attainment.
2. Most managers are governed by intuition and judgment as to what course of action to follow in their planning and decision making function, many of them as a matter of fact do not make use of the information supplied to them from within and outside the organization and if they do, to some degree, the receive form the business environment.
3. There is also the problem of evaluating the impact of management information system towards the achievement of objectives. Many managers are yet to capitalize and utilize information for decision making and goals attainment. Therefore the questing as to whether management information system enables organization achieve their objectives has to be addressed in this research study.