Being in an Information Environment

This is the information age of the digital society. A sudden explosion of emails, chat, blogs, IM's from ubiquitous computer screens can be seen just about anywhere. Due to the fast development of technology these days certain enigmas puzzled the community and as a solution few information environments are formed to bring answers and to further plow the information field.

An information systems environment is an area in which information systems professionals apply management systems and technology skills professionally in an organization. An environment does not and cannot constitute a single, focused knowledge area such as applications in mathematics, art, technology, law, statistics, or desktop publishing. Instead, an environment represents an ecosystem in which information systems are employed. The environment surrounds and impacts the systems and technologies that support it and whose inputs, processes or outputs are closely intertwined with their information system.

An aspiring IT professional, like myself surely sees himself/herself to be one day be in the “inner circle of technology”, to be a part of a prestigious IT environment or organization in which he/she can show his/her full potential. But through that journey a lot of problems arise.

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HRM in the eyes of an HR manager

When I was told that we were required to interview a personnel/human resource manager, the first person that came to my mind was Mr.Carlito S. Llano, the HRM manager of LYR Marketing. Even though we haven't scheduled an interview for that day, actually it was more of an ambush interview, he was kind enough to accommodate us. Mr. Llano is an accomplished HR manager and instructor so he always welcome students who would like to learn about the craft that he loves the most.

For him, the role of human resource management deals with issues like compensation, hiring, performance management, organization development, safety, wellness, benefits, employee motivation, communication, administration, and training of the people employed in the company. According to Mr.Llano, the HR manager has provides significant support and advice to line management or the administration. HRM is concerned with all the decisions, strategies, factors, principles, operations, practices, functions, activities and methods related to the management of people as employees in any type of organization.

As what I have understood from Mr.Llano the nature of human resource management is to effectively make use of the talents and abilities of employees to achieve the operational objectives that are the ultimate aim of the organization. The role of HRM is to ensure that the individual employee is satisfied with both the working environment and the compensation and benefits that he or she receives. Yet, the human resource management doesn't have any power to tell off or suspend an employee that isn't in their own office.

From our recent company visits and observations, I can say that LYR Marketing's HRM functions in the manner that Mr.Llano have described. The company really takes care of their employees and they even give their employees a chance to be a stockholder. Its a bit rare for a company to make their employees to be stockholders and from that point of view alone, you can say that they value their people a lot.

HRM: Company Visit 4

The date of this visit is: August 30,2008

After visiting our MIS adopted company, DLPC, earlier in morning and going to the ICT Convention from 12 nn-1 pm and finally having lunch at 1:30 pm, we headed to our next destination, LYR Marketing.

Like in our MIS subject, a technical paper was to be made for our Human Resource Management subject. This technical paper is an Information Systems Development Plan that my group and I have to formulate for our chosen company. Unlike, our MIS technical paper, which has outlined components, this paper, as quoted by our professor is an open philosophy paper. It means it can have any components we want to add as long as we achieve/state our main goal, and that is to devise a ISD plan.

We were sidetracked by our other activities, that’s why we started acting upon the paper this late than of what was scheduled. jejeje..!!

The purpose of the visit is just to gather information such as the company background like its history, their vision, mission, and their future plans. We also asked about the existing systems in their company. Funny thing is, like in DLPC, the organizational chart of LYR can't be given to us because it was a confidential file. Mr. Llano said that they can't possibly release information such as the organizational chart and their goals because they are a business organization and not a philanthropic organization. Even with promises of confidentiality, they dare not release such information because they are afraid that it may leak out to their competitors.

Mr.Llano was engrossed in making to us about what is the importance of goals and what success really means. These sudden discussions, for me, really make Mr.Llano a good mentor, because he shares us a lot of useful information and he really exceeds our expectations. He even advised us to study other computer languages that what is taught in school so that we can be better than other students.