Abstract:
The development of the country's economy through the
development industrial sector its growth
rate could not be achieved. The lack of application of
proper management technique was identified as one of the
main causes. The government stresses in the National
Industrial Policy declared ,n 1982 to instal and maintain
MIS for monitoring and evaluation of the performance of the
management of public sector indUstrial enterprises of the
country. In this view computer aided centralized MIS has
been introduced in many corporate Head Offices of industrial
enterprises. Yet the condition remained as it was - this is
revealed on the eVe of the end of the Third Five Year Plan.
The growth rate in the manufacturing sector was 10.1 in 1989
against the rate of 10.6 in 1981.
It has been argued that the environment in which the
industrial enterprises and their management operate has a
definite impact on the overall management process
particularly on the decision making process. The basic
literacy rate, its quality and quantity, religious faith,
customs, traditions, values, interests, philosophies,
attitudes, policies, variom, controls, political stability
etc. constitute the environment. Thie environment is often
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obstructive, re~ulntory nnd descouraging and sometimes
stimulating tn the overall management process and thus on
the industrial economi~ development.
Frequently management puts blames solely on these
environmental construints for inefficiency and ineffectivity
of the Management Decision System (MDS) and its failure to
achieve the enterprise objectives. Should they also not be
blamed for atleast for their part played an inefficiency. To
alleviate this situation various thouf(hts have been emerged
at times. In the current work the information system more
specii'ically the MIS has hcen considered as a management
tool to increase the effectivity of MDS of enterprises. It
is pn,po$ed that An effective MIS incorporatinp; all the
informations 1n a timely basis an,l appropriate decision
based actioa mode from utilising lhese informlltion can make
it possible.
The purpose of study is to Idcnlify theBe eavironmentaL
influences on "riti"al management elements and their effects
"n the manaf(ement ,[e"ision makin~ system. Because nf the
noaavailability pertinent iaformation for
quantitative analysis of these envi,-onmental i'actors and
their influence on management decision making system, study
is' made on a qualitative basis. Also the reliability of the
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information availnble and tbe time horizon permitted to
carry out this study critically affects th" study proces"
and lend to qualitative analysis. Howcver scope e"ists for
future study and work on this isoue.
The study consists a conceptuul framework to give on idea
about th" environmental fa"tors whi"h deemed to be critical
and important and also influen"ial to the overall managerial
performance.
Efforts were made to analyze the inherent defects and
shortcomings in existing MIS, the causes of ineffectivity.
Finally guidelines ware proposed for designing and
implementing an effective MIS, in more general term.
The present study focussed on -
IdentifYing
cultural
tbe environment"l f"etors educational
political and economic environment and
socio
their
influence on critical ",anogement elements.
2. The way lhe environmental f,,,,lurs influence the managerial
performance and the management decision making process.
3. How to modify or eliminate the negnlive influences (or
constrainta) by taking necessary actions and atepa.
4. How lhe environroenluJ ["clor-s infl""n,,., th.- M.lS eff'.-ctivity
and how an effective MIS can help