Information Technology Management Practice

2013 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 50-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brandis Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
Information Technology Management ◽  
Management Activity ◽  
It Effectiveness ◽  
It Value ◽  
Order Factor ◽  
The Impact ◽  
It Risk

The purpose of this research is to put forth a model that examines the impact of information technology (IT) related management practices upon IT effectiveness. Given the nature and use of these practices as a management activity, control theory is used as a framework to determine if IT management practices serving as controls can achieve positive outcomes. A portion of the Control Objectives for IT (COBIT) framework is used as a proxy for management practices due to the ability to ground the COBIT practices in previous literature and serve as IT controls. The results of a survey of IT and audit professionals suggest that the model put forth with IT related management practices as an independent second order factor, does indeed explain variance in perceptions of IT effectiveness as mediated through perceptions of IT value and perceptions of IT risk however only IT value is a significant predictor of IT effectiveness.

The inseparable nature of working and learning: peripheral management practice that facilitates employee learning

2014 ◽  
Vol 28 (5) ◽  
pp. 10-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jay Andrew Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Management Practices ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Management Activity ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Employee Learning ◽  
Frontline Managers ◽  
Social Act ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
Good Manager

Purpose – This paper aims to look at the peripheral management practice that facilitates employee learning. Such management practices are embedded or inseparable to working and being a good manager. Design/methodology/approach – Point of view. Findings – For many frontline managers and their employees, the separation between working and learning is often not apparent. There appears to be no clear distinction between when they are working and when they are learning. Practical implications – Better development of organizational managers. Originality/value – This paper highlights the informal nature of learning and working and builds on the understanding that much of the learning that occurs at work occurs as part of a social act, often involving managers and their employees. In this way, employee learning that is identified and facilitated by frontline managers is so often entwined in other management activity. Furthermore, this paper outlines some practical actions that organizations can undertake to aid greater frontline management involvement in employee learning.

Board and Management-Level Factors Affecting the Maturity of IT Risk Management Practices

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 117-135
Author(s):  
Nishani Edirisinghe Vincent ◽  
Julia L. Higgs ◽  
Robert E. Pinsker
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Internal Control ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Management Level ◽  
It Risk Management ◽  
Top Managers ◽  
Risk Oversight ◽  
The Impact ◽  
It Risk

ABSTRACT The Securities and Exchange Commission's 2009 enhanced proxy disclosure requirements and the updated Committee of Sponsoring Organizations' (COSO) Internal Control Framework have caused organizations to increase their focus on risk management and consider the impact of information technology (IT) in enterprise risk management. Our study examines whether board involvement, board expertise, and top management's risk culture affect the maturity of IT risk management practices (maturity) in firms. We find that board involvement positively influences maturity while top managers' risk-taking behavior is associated with lower maturity. Even though board expertise influences maturity, board involvement is more important in explaining maturity. Maturity is higher in firms where risk oversight lies with a board-level, rather than a management, committee. However, the maturity of ITRM practices does not differ among firms whether risk oversight lies with the overall board, or any other board committee. The findings contribute to an under-researched area in IT governance.

scholarly journals The Requirement of Records Management Practices for Institutional Audits

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3.7) ◽  
pp. 228
Author(s):  
Nik Nurul Emyliana Nik Ramlee ◽  
Saiful Farik Mat Yatin ◽  
Mastura Md Zali ◽  
Nurul Aiqa Mohd Zain ◽  
Amzari Abu Bakar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Management Practices ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
White Collar Crime ◽  
Risk Mitigation ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
Records Management ◽  
Government Sector ◽  
The Government ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Impact

Currently, the issues of corruption or white-collar crime rise in government sector and this issue raised during the audit checking. The organization itself do not take the initiative and follow the policy and standard assigned by the government when manage the records in their organization with the requirement of records management practices. This study also emphasizes the role of records management in conducting the risk mitigation in governance regarding the auditing process, the relationship of the records management and good governance and to analyse the general report of one organization in Malaysia which related with the audit department. With this study, hopefully the good governance and accountability could be achieved and the crime rate could be minimized as well as no litigation occur during the auditing process if the records management practices plays their roles. This study is to investigate the impact of the implementation of good records management practice in exercising good governance and to ease up the auditing process.  

Risk versus Economic Return in Managing Groundwater Nitrate Contamination

1993 ◽  
Vol 28 (3-5) ◽  
pp. 55-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. D. Adelman ◽  
M. F. Dahab
Keyword(s):  
Management Practices ◽  
Transport Model ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
Farm Management ◽  
Nitrate Contamination ◽  
Nitrate Transport ◽  
Domestic Water ◽  
Economic Return ◽  
Irrigation Rate ◽  
The Impact

A nitrate transport model was developed to project the impact of a substantial buildup of nitrate in the groundwater in the eastern Sandhills region of Nebraska. Predicted nitrate levels were evaluated using a Multi-Criteria Decision Making technique. Two criteria were used to determine optimum farm management practices: economic return to the irrigators and risk to domestic water users. The optimum farm management practice consisted of an above average irrigation rate and a below average nitrogen fertilizer rate. The low fertilization rate had one of the lowest risks of excessive ground water nitrate levels, while the high irrigation rate maximized the economic return. Therefore, this practice was optimal because it was the best compromise between minimum risk and maximum economic return. The risk of excessive groundwater nitrate for the optimum practice was 51 percent and for the other seven practices simulated ranged up to 54 percent.

scholarly journals Impact of management practices on construction productivity in Indian building construction projects: an empirical study1

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 2383-2390
Author(s):  
Saurav Dixit
Keyword(s):  
Construction Projects ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
Relative Weight ◽  
Weighted Average ◽  
Building Construction ◽  
Average Score ◽  
Construction Productivity ◽  
The Impact

Abstract The objective of this study is to analyse the impact of management practices on the productivity of building construction projects in India. The methodology adopted for this study is to identify and analyse the management practice attributes from the literature review and expert focus group interviews. The identified attributes were analysed and priorities using relative weight were given by the respondents. The collected data were further analysed using SPSS 21 software. The quantitative research methodology was adopted to analyse the collected data and the following tools and techniques were applied to the data: reliability analysis to check the consistency of data collected for this study and relative importance index (RII) to prioritise and rank the attributes based on the weighted average score given by the respondents. The findings of this study concluded that coordination between all stakeholders, ability to handle the crisis by the project managers, social skills of key team managers, timely payment of completed works and design capability and frequent design changes are the most significant attributes of management practice, affecting construction productivity and having a rating on the RII of 0.91, 0.90, 0.88, 0.87 and 0.87.

scholarly journals E-waste Management In Indian Microscale Informal Sectors – An Environmental Perspective Towards Policy Regulation

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dipsikha Dasgupta ◽  
Santanu Majumder ◽  
Jishnu Adhikari ◽  
Pinaki Ghosh ◽  
Diane Purchase ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Informal Sector ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
Great Influence ◽  
Soil Samples ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Road Map ◽  
Hazardous Metal ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Inappropriate e-waste processing in the informal sector is a serious issue in developing countries. Field investigations in microscale informal recycling sites have been performed to study the impact of hazardous metal(loid)s (released from e-waste dismantling) on the environment (water and soil). Eight hazardous metal(loid)s (Pb, Cd, Cu, Zn, As, Hg, Ni and Cr) were found at elevated levels in the monitored water and soil samples (Sangrampur, West Bengal) as a consequence of widespread informal e-waste handling and primitive processing. Pd, Cu and As were found in high concentrations in water samples (1.62, 1.40, 0.03 mgL-1 respectively). Significant levels of Cu, Pd and Cd were detected in collected soil samples, both topsoil (Cu up to 2328.60 ± 217.60, Pb up to 342.90 ± 32.36 and Cd 18.34 ± 3.81 mgkg-1) and subsurface soil (2491.40 ± 276.20, 1853.33 ± 144.79, 25.90 ± 9.53 mgkg-1), compared to the levels of Zn, As, Hg, Ni and Cr. The results of seasonal variation indicated that higher levels of these hazardous meta(loids) were detected in the pre-monsoon (Nov – May) season than the rest of the year, as open dumping/burning of e-waste were practiced commonly and frequently in the monitored sites. The results highlighted that the composition and the handling of e-waste were important factors affecting the metal(loid) concentrations. E-waste policy and legislation have great influence on the handling and disposal procedures. A novel improved e-waste management practice has been proposed to encourage eco-friendly and safe e-waste disposal. It is recommended that regulatory agencies and manufacturers should create a road map to convince the informal sector to develop a systematic approach towards a more standardized formal e-waste management practices at the microscale field level.

scholarly journals The Impact of Quality Management Practices on Manufacturing Performance: An Empirical Study Based on System Theory

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jie Liu ◽  
Dejuan Zhuang ◽  
Wei Shen
Keyword(s):  
System Theory ◽  
Quality Management ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
Core Competitiveness ◽  
Manufacturing Enterprises ◽  
Quality Management Practices ◽  
Practice Elements ◽  
Manufacturing Performance ◽  
The Impact

Abstract As one important part of core competitiveness of manufacturing enterprises, quality management practices have gradually received more attention. In many existing researches, quality management practices are regarded as a whole or categorized into two or four types of practice elements for discussions. There are less researches on the relationships among specific quality management practice elements and their impacts on manufacturing performance. This study analyzes quality management practices with the philosophical thinking of system theory, and deconstructs the mechanism of the mutual influences and synergies among various quality management practice elements and also their impacts on manufacturing performance, from an overall perspective through an empirical research. At last, a model of quality management practice synergies is built, as a theoretical support for manufacturing enterprises implementation of quality management practices.

scholarly journals Analisis dan Pengukuran Tingkat Eksposur Resiko Teknologi Informasi dengan Metode Fmea Pada PT. Bank Central Asia, Tbk

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 694
Author(s):  
Roy Kurniawan
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Effect Analysis ◽  
Library Research ◽  
Research Interviews ◽  
Potential Failure ◽  
Software And Hardware ◽  
The Impact ◽  
It Risk

The purpose of this paper is to help the PT. Bank Central Asia, Tbk in measuring the level of risk exposure and identify the need to control IT risk management at PT. Bank Central Asia, Tbk. Conducted research methodology, field observation, library research, interviews and gave questionnaires to the relevant parties, perform data analysis, as well as measuring the risk of using the approach of FMEA (Failure Mode and Effect Analysis). The results achieved in this study is to facilitate the management in making decisions related to the design, maintenance, and development of information technology at PT. Bank Central Asia, Tbk and also minimize the risk of the failure so that the utilization of existing information technology can provide more optimal results. The conclusion from this study is that there is a risk of potential failure that could hamper the existing business processes in PT. Bank Central Asia, Tbk. Highest risk or potential failure according to theRPN (Risk Priority Number) is a software and hardware damage, as well as the corrupted database due to the impact of operational risk.

scholarly journals Lean Management Practices’ Effects on Brazilian Firms: A Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 84-108
Author(s):  
Filipe Lage de Sousa ◽  
Mauricio Canêdo-Pinheiro ◽  
Bernardo Pereira Cabral ◽  
Glaucia Estefânia de Sousa Ferreira
Keyword(s):  
Management Practices ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Lean Management ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Innovation Outcomes

One of the key drivers for a firm's productivity growth is management. One lean management practice considered cost-effective is Kaizen. Originally from Japan, the Kaizen basic concept is continuous improvement with the involvement of the full workforce. Using a firm-level dataset from Brazil's innovation and manufacturing surveys, this paper evaluates quantitatively whether Kaizen has impacted the performance of domestic firms. Our initial results suggest a productivity premium on Kaizen adopters, yet when it materializes is not detectable in the short term. Moreover, the impact on innovation is observable after Kaizen implementation. Understanding these outcomes with a qualitative approach, our analysis highlights the importance of Kaizen on innovation, especially by improving worker's time at the production line as well as the long-term vision of Kaizen on productivity. In summary, Kaizen is not a magic wand that improves firms’ performance in a wide array of indicators yet it may boost innovation outcomes in the short term aiming to improve productivity in the long term if it is implemented carefully and persistently, as established by its basic principles.

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