چکیده:
Although some researchers do not doubt the effectiveness of user participation in MIS success, research findings show that such relationships are not consistent under all circumstances. The present paper investigates the relations between user participation on MIS success, in light of the managerial styles over systems growth stages. Six product-oriented companies were selected that had a minimum condition of having 1000 employees and have been experiencing MIS for at least 5 years. A sum of 48 managers and 55 users in the MIS department were selected to answer four standard questionnaires. The results showed that 1) only user participation were affected in the system development stage, 2) there was no effect of managerial styles on user participation and systems success, 3) managerial styles, user participation and systems success differ in MIS growth stages and finally 4) the relationships and systems success differ over MIS growth stages.
خلاصه ماشینی:
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY The present article is based on a field study that investigates the effects of managerial styles and user's participation on MIS success over different systems growth stages in six companies; Mobarekeh Steel Company (MSC), Stephan Cement Company (SCM), Iran's Polyacryle Company (IPC), Isfahan Oil Refinery (IOR), Petrochemical Company (PTC), and Isfahan Steel Mill Company (ISMC).
The variables under consideration have been measured by four standard questionnaires: 1) manager styles with Luthan's [11] leadership styles questionnaire, 2) users participation with final version of user participation of Doll and Torkzadeh, [9] 3) information system's success with users satisfaction questionnaire of Iranian Journal of Information Science & Technology, Volume 2, Number 2 July/December, 2004 Doll and Torkzadeh, [8] and finally systems growth stages with information system's complexity questionnaire of Li and Roger.
The evaluation of the second hypotheses which data was gathered from managerial and users satisfaction questions showed that the managerial style does not have any effect on the systems success over any MIS growth stage.
1. Table 4: CC Between Managerial Styles and Systems Success in MIS Growth Stages Stages, Initlntion, Development, Maturity, Total Managers Styles, H-O T-O, H-O T-O, H-O T-O, H-O T-O Correlation Coefficient, 0/094, -0/454, -0/247, -0/206, -0/057, -0/264, -0/080, -0/279 Source: Extracted from Statistical Computations.
The resulting correlation coefficient from data gathered showed that the managerial style does not have any effect on the systems success over MIS growth stages.
Variance analysis on the data showed that the managerial styles, users participations and systems success over MIS growth stages were different.