2. Evaluation of management
Involves independent and careful
examination
Advice top management
Problems
Reports
3. Social performance of an organization in
contrast to its economic performance
Started in USA in 1950s
Different definitions-different yardsticks
It can be defined as a commitment to
systematic assessment and reporting on
some meaningful definable domain of
company’s activities that have a social
impact.
4. Problems in social audit:
Determining the scope of social audit:
What all activities are to be included?
Measurement Problems:
Difficulty in quantifying social activities.
5. An enumeration of social expectations and
organisation’s responses.
A statement of corporation’s social objectives
and priorities attached to specific activities.
A description of corporation’s goals in each
programme area of the activities it will conduct.
A statement committed to achieve objectives
and goals
A statement of accomplishments and progress
made in achieving each objectives and goals.
6. Provides tools for valuation of human resources and
measures to take appropriate actions.
Involved in measuring various aspects related to human
assets.
Basic purpose:
To provide cost-value data to managerial decisions
To provide info to monitor the effectiveness of human
resource utilization
To provide info regarding human asset status
To assist in the development of effective human resource
management practices
7. Givesvaluable information to management.
Measurement of standard cost of HR activities.
Changes the attitudes of managers.
Create a congenial work environment.
8. Absence of well defined practice.
Based on the assumption that human
resource remains constant
Leads to dehumanization in organization.
Trade unions’ opposition
9.
10. Information: life blood in systems approach
Information system
Management Information System can be
defined as the system of providing needed
information to each manager at the right
time, in the right form and relevant one
which aids his understanding and stimulates
his action.
Designing of MIS based on two factors:
Determinants of information needs
Mis Blueprint
11. Computer and MIS
Role of MIS:
Reduce the cost
Greater precision of data
Coordination through unifying the concept of
each subsystem
Rapid access to information