Goodbye, The Oprah Winfrey Show......

The most influential TV show in US will end its show in 2011. Yes, I'm referring to The Oprah Winfrey Show. The Oprah Winfrey show, hosted by herself, Oprah Winfrey was the most high-rated talk show in United States. This show was aired first on September 8, 1986 for more than 20 seasons. This show was famous especially to women simply because, of many topics that tackles to American pop-culture consciousness.

Since The Oprah Winfrey Show was the most high-rated talk show, Oprah Winfrey gained some awards and made her onto the top list to the most influential people to the Hollywood and to the world. That is why, you cannot easily beat Oprah Winfrey.

Last November 19, 2009, Oprah Winfrey's production company announced the show will be ending on September 9, 2011. To find out why, click this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYQumZOrX2U

I Don't Know Why

It's almost a week now, na hindi siya nagtatanong sa akin ng kahit ano. Naninibago lang. Maybe, gusto niya mapag-isa o di kaya'y galit siya sa akin. Hindi ko matandaan kung anong na gawa ko sa kanya na mali. Pero, I have conclusions why she mad at me. It's not an ordinary thing of being cold in almost a week.

I remember, one time she said, "I hate those persons na hindi nagsasalita kung ano ang mali." That's what I'm waiting from her mouth kung bakit ayaw niyang sabihin sa akin kung ano talaga ang problema. She's so friendly to my other classmates and boardmates but not to me. I'm wondering. Meron talagang mga taong sadyang ayaw sabihin kung ano talaga ang problema. Akala ko kaibigan siya. Di pala. but ayokong maging masama siya sa paningin ko. Hahay....... That is why, I'm not happy anymore in our boarding house. Unlike before, sabay kami kumakain. Breakfast, lunch at dinner, sabay kami pati na ang pagkain ng merienda namin. I miss those activities especially noong nag-a-attend kami ng Wednesday Prayer Meeting dun sa Chinese Baptist. Kaya, I regret na sana hindi na lang kami sabay na tumira sa isang boarding house (we're not sleeping in the same room ha, hehehe). Everytime na ako lang mag-isa sa kwarto, gusto ko maiyak because I think na wala akong kakampi. Kahit iba kong mga classmates ay parang ayaw nila sa aking. Ganito ba talaga ako? Always na naghahanap ng away? Siguro, ipinanganak lang talaga ako sa mundong ibabaw na ganito ako. Pero, I have to adjust because hindi na ito tulad ng dati. 'Yan siguro ang mali ko sapagkat hindi ako marunong mag-adjust sa ibang tao at I didn't consider their feelings also and I should what my limitations are.

I do believe that hindi magtatagal ang cold relationship as a friend namin ngayon. Siguro, sa mga susunod na araw ay unti-unti babalik ang nakagisnan naming mga gawain.

IT Professional? Hmmpfff.....

Well, I can view myself 10 years from now as an IT professional, particularly as MIS manager working in a corporation or company wherein I can share my skills related in the discipline I choose. Being an MIS Manager is not an easy task, for; you will be the one to coordinate and centralize all the group demands, preparing the status reports, supervising your standards, procedures, policies, work instructions and methodologies adopted during the implementation phase in your organization.

Now, let’s discuss again what Management Information System is. Management Information Systems consist of hardware and software that are used to process information automatically. Commonly, MIS systems are used within organizations to allow many individuals to access and modify information. In many organizations, the management information system mainly operates behind the scene, and the user community is rarely involved or even aware of the processes that are handled by the MIS. A computer system used to process orders for a business could be considered a management information system because it is assisting users of the system in automating processes related to orders. Other examples of modern management information systems are websites that process transactions for an organization or even those that serve support requests to users. A simple example of a management information system might be the support website for a product could be considered an MIS because it returns information to the end user after some initial input is provided.

Online bill pay at a bank also qualifies as a management information system — when a bill is scheduled to be paid, the user has provided information for the system to act against. The management information system then processes the payment when the due date approaches. The automated action taken by the online system is to pay the bill as requested. Since the bills within an online bill pay system can be scheduled to be automatically paid month after month, the user is not required to provide further information. Many times the bill pay system will also produce an email for the user to let them know that the action has occurred and what the outcome of the action was.
Management Information Systems typically have their own staff whose function it is to maintain existing systems and implement new technologies within a company. These positions are often highly specialized, allowing a team of people to focus on different areas within the computer system.

In recent years, colleges and universities have begun offering entire programs devoted to management information systems. In these programs, students learn how to manage large interconnected computer systems and troubleshoot the automation of these management information systems.

Many people use management information systems every day without thinking about the actual system they are using. Sure the individual will see a website and enter information, expecting an action to happen, but these websites, just like the accounting systems used by large corporations, are in fact management information systems.
Being MIS Manager is responsible in supervising the safe use of the system by the various operators, with respect of the procedures of your company and per the accounting rules and principles. Not only that, but responsible also in editing and printing frequently the appropriate management reports while checking and inspecting the results; these reports must be programmed on a daily, weekly or monthly basis and distributed the concerned departments.

MIS Managers have major duties so that his organization will be successful. To wit:
• Supervise activities of MIS staff.
• Identify critical business issues and develop workable solutions for customers as well as MIS associates. These solutions may include enhancements to existing core applications, new software packages, and/or customer programs.
• Define MIS standards and policies in compliance with external auditors.
• Identify, recommend, and manage deployment of "best of breed" hardware and software upgrades and purchases for Finance and Administration.
• Prepare and manage the Management Information Systems operating and capital budgets.
• In conjunction with users, prepare, test, and maintain a disaster recovery plan for administrative systems.
• In conjunction with users, develop and maintain documentation, procedures, security, and training of staff members and end users of administrative systems.
• Maintain professional expertise in administrative computing systems and technology.

If you want to be MIS Manager or any kind of manager, here are some simple tips so that you need inorder for you to be successful in your work and career. To wit:

1. Try to learn as much as possible about the people you are working with (needs, family lives, hobbies etc)
You should be friendly to all of the people that surrounds you in your workplace. Try to have some times in bonding with them so that your relation to them will be closer.

2. Keep smiling! Be positive (you can transfer your energy to the others)
Having a smiley and bright face contributes more motivation to your employees.

3. Have short informal conversation with your employees! (use their first names - it is very important).
Be more humorous to your employees. Call them either in their nicknames or first names.

4. Be patient and listen to them (encourage them to say more, keep eye-contact and focused attention).
If one of your employees commit some mistakes, try to listen and understand them why they made that fault.

5. Shape your speech according to their expectation and interests.
Not all the times you can use a formal speech to them, try to become informal but not all the times.

6. Give a good stroke! (say something nice when you meet them).
Greet them if you meet them.

7. Don't give orders! Ask questions!
If you want to request some orders, say it nice.

8. Praise people any time for their achievements (they will love it)
If they made some achievement even it is simple, praise them for it will contribute motivation to them.

9. Have the same behavior and attitude with everybody around you.
Be more friendly to them.

10. Identify the sources of conflicts and try to solve them in time.
If there are conflicts in your organization, solve it and understand why it happened.

11. Do not criticize, do not blame do not complain.
Do not judge anyone in your organization.

12. Show strong determination and try to motivate the others.
Be more positive for everyone depends on you.

13. Don't be moody! Be well-balanced and good-tempered all the time.
Don’t nag for any no reason.

14. Don't say "NO!" (replace it with "What if")
Try to listen others opinion and be more optimistic


In addition, here is a link to be a SUCCESSFUL IT PROFESSIONAL. http://www.google.com.ph/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=2&ved=0CAsQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnet.educause.edu%2Fir%2Flibrary%2Fpdf%2FERM0613.pdf&rct=j&q=how+to+be+successful+IT+professional&ei=6k_-SuyKEp3a6gPNxMjpCg&usg=AFQjCNF7Wq2nQ5bdgQ_Vo4zgFxMTxwGrvw

Lastly, without an ambition, you cannot achieve what you want to be. As what the elders said , "Hindi masama ang mangarap." That is why, while it is early try to have some dreams you want to be in the near future and don't forget some tips on how to become successful in your career.

References:
http://www.whoi.edu/services/HR/jobdescp/administrative/mismgr.htm http://www.sd-lb.com/WhitePapers/WP_MISProfile.pdf http://www.wisegeek.com/what-are-management-information-systems.htm

Whew!

Hay! Unsa na man ni uie....tamad au ko...hu5

Gggrrrr....

I hate having a barkada as your groupmate in your work. That is why, I prefer to have a groupmate/s that is not your friend but approachable. Hahayzzzzzzzz......

Tips:
If you want to choose a groupmate to your group, choose a person that is not your friend but approachable.

HR Practices of LGU Davao

In this tasked, my chosen organization is the HRM (Human Resource Management) Office in Davao City Hall. This organization is well-known because of their HR best practices and was hailed by some other organizations both in Local Government Units and Non-Local Government Units. This organization also was hailed because of its HRIS that the other LGUs in the country wants to be imitated.

Davao City is a wide city that has more than thousands of employees working in government service. According to a commmon online encyclopedia, HRM is more flexible than Personnel Management which is rigid. PM sees its workers as a cost rather than an investment. PM is guided by policies and guidelines unlike HRM is proactive while PM is reactive and so, most organizations and companies has its Human Resource Management. That is why, there are also illegitimate employees and these were the ghost employees. Due to the best HR practices done by the city government, there are more than thousands of ghost employees were expunged.

As I surf over the internet, I found these informations about the HR practices of LGU Davao;

HR benefits of 911
Mendoza (Executive Director of the Career Executive Service Board (CESB)) mentioned as worth duplicating the establishment of the city’s Central Communication and Emergency Response Center or Central 911 which has employed 133 Davaoeños after it was launched in 2003. Central 911 is only the third emergency response helpline in the world of its kind, next to the United States and Canada.

HRMO as a department
Participants also lauded the creation of HRMO as a department, up from a section, in the city government’s present structure.
“Davao City shows that HR offices can also be given equal importance with other departments, unlike most LGUs in the country,” said Eddie Maslog, chief of the Human Resource Management and Development Office (HRMDO) of the Provincial Government of Bohol. Unlike the case of Davao City, Maslog’s office has yet to secure an approval from the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) in creating its department head position.
Escalada (former HRMO Chief of LGU Davao) attributed the department status of the HRMO to the joint support of the City Mayor and the City Council, giving the office more clout to implement HRM policies.
In the workshop, participants further listed down as best HRM model Davao City’s high regard for “merit and fitness principle,” with the city mayor hiring only from the top five applicants as recommended by the personnel selection board. Escalada said this was to discourage political accommodation in the recruitment process.
Escalada also reported the termination of around 730 “ghost” employees in the city hall since his assumption as HRMO acting head in 2002.

More HR models
Other initiatives of the city government that the participants wanted to replicate were the setting up of a child-minding facility at City Hall which offers free custodial services to employees who need to take their children to work; the microcomputer-based Human Resource Information System (HRIS) which updates records of all plantilla and coterminous personnel; the character advocacy program which identifies good character traits to be exhibited by employees on a monthly basis; the 5-S program which promotes good housekeeping and systematic approach to work, and the attachment of the Public Employment Service Office of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) which focuses on job generation, facilitation, enhancement, job preservation.

“We take pride in being able to give total human development to our personnel through our HR programs,” Escalada said.
In a separate interview, Nora Fe Alajar, president of the Davao City Hall Employees Association (DACHEA) said rank-and-file employees have a bigger role in the city government today than ever. She said this started when a Collective Negotiation Agreement (CNA) was forged in 2000, providing for the representation of the employees union in the many influential committees of City Hall.
“City Hall management and the workers’ union have a very good partnership because of the many programs that are sensitive to the needs of the employees,” Alajar said.

Davao City shared similar complements with other panelists from the Municipality of Malalag in Davao del Sur and the provincial governmet of Sultan Kudarat.

In the same workshop, the Malalag municipal government, represented by Municipal Mayor Givel Mamaril, was commended for the participation of the LGU personnel in the reorganization and restructuring of the municipal government and for various local government initiatives such as revenue generation schemes and economic enterprises.

Sultan Kudarat, whose HR practices were presented by Provincial Human Resource Management Officer Ben Zamora, was hailed for giving higher incentives to its personnel (14th month pay) and a CNA where retirees can recommend replacements in lower positions, among others.
The symposium was conducted to bring together human resource managers from previous AusAID-assisted institutions nationwide and to provide a venue for discussing how to address the effects of the national government restructuring measures using human resource management principles.

Source: http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=12&sec=reader&rp=1&fi=p050113.htm&no=6&date=01/13/2005

Let's Define!!!!

Personnel Management:

Within organizations that employ people, this is the function with policy responsibility for the selection and recruitment of staff, training, performance assessment, career development, disciplinary proceedings, pre-retirement advisory work, equal opportunities policies, pay bargaining, and industrial relations. In small organizations these functions may be combined with other management responsibilities; in large organizations a substantial separate department may be involved in setting policy, its implementation, and in keeping up to date with developments in labour law. In recent years the newer alternative term 'human resource management' has come into use, reflecting the increased importance of this function in labour-intensive service-sector industries.


In this statement, personnel management is the one who is responsible in recruiting and selecting staff. Its obligation also is to train, assess, and make any such development in careers and so on. That is why, personnel management is important to an organization.
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Administrative discipline of hiring and developing employees so that they become more valuable to the organization. It includes (1) conducting job analyses, (2) planning personnel needs, and recruitment, (3) selecting the right people for the job, (4) orienting and training, (5) determining and managing wages and salaries, (6) providing benefits and incentives, (7) appraising performance, ( resolving disputes, (9) communicating with all employees at all levels.

In this definition, personnel management is responsible for hiring and developing employees to be more productive in an organization.

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The function of a personnel manager usually begins with the staffing process. The manager may be focused on screening and interviewing applicants, with an eye to placing individuals with the right skill sets in the right position within the company. Along with placement, the HR manager may also oversee, or at least be involved in, the creation of entry level training programs, as well as continuing education opportunities for existing employees.

Determining company policies and procedures as they relate to personnel is another important aspect of the personnel management process. HR functions often include drafting vacation, sick leave, and bereavement policies that apply to all employees. The personnel management team is also often responsible for managing any healthcare program provided to the employees as well.

One aspect of company organization that needs the input of effective personnel management is the drafting of a company handbook. Establishing operation policies and procedures, requirements for employment, commendation and disciplinary procedures, and even something as simple as a dress code has to be compared with state and federal guidelines before the handbook is ready for release to the company at large. Personnel managers and the HR staff are ideal for drafting and reviewing the company handbook.

Sometimes overlooked in the course of personnel management is the emotional welfare of the employees. Increasingly, more personnel managers understand that a well-adjusted employee is an asset to the company. To this end, many people in charge of personnel management try to provide opportunities for employees who are in need of counseling to receive support from the company.

This support often involves scheduling time during working hours for the counseling sessions, and perhaps picking up the cost if insurance does not cover counseling. As with continuing educational programs, counseling is seen as another way that the company invests in the future relationship between the employee and the employer. A good HR manager understands this and will strive to make sure this sort of support is available.

Depending on the size of the organization, it may be possible for one person to handle all personnel management functions. As a company grows, it may be necessary to expand from a single personnel manager to a full-fledged personnel management, or Human Resources team. By understanding the needs of the company at each point in its growth, management can readily see to the addition to the Human Resources team over time.

Personnel Management is related to personnel manager. Personnel Manager is the one who oversees of the emotional welfare of the employees. That is why, personnel managers understand that employees are the main ingredient of an organization.


Human Resource Management:
Human Resource Management (HRM) is the function within an organization that focuses on recruitment of, management of, and providing direction for the people who work in the organization. Human Resource Management can also be performed by line managers.

Human Resource Management is the organizational function that deals with issues related to people such as compensation, hiring, performance management, organization development, safety, wellness, benefits, employee motivation, communication, administration, and training.

Human Resource Management is kinda related to personnel management. They are both in line with hiring, performance management, employee motivation, and other activities related to the employees.
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Human resource management is responsible for how people are treated in organizations. It is responsible for bringing people into the organization, helping them perform their work, compensating them for their labors, and solving problems that arise" (Cherrington, 1995, p. 5). There are seven management functions of a human resources (HR) department that will be specifically addressed: staffing, performance appraisals, compensation and benefits, training and development, employee and labor relations, safety and health, and human resource research.

In this statement, human resource management is responsible in making employees feel at home even they are in their workplace. HRM is also responsible in making people to be more productive so that they can easily solve problems in their organization.