Organizational influences on management information systems in the human services

ABSTRACT Successful development and implementation of MS requires an understanding of how organization goals and structures constrain and/or facilitate MIS. Some organizational factors influencing MS are: ideology, staff resistance, power structure, efficiency vs. effectiveness; agency stability, leadership, organizational change and politics and self-interest. Strategies to overcome these barriers are: structural location of MIS; user involvement in MIS design and implementation; and organizational analysis, as perquisites for MIS.