authority is contrasted with the other forms of authority, which were essentially irrational and extra-legal, because of its modernity and efficiency (Gerth and Mills, 1970) (Cited in Hughes, 2012, p. 48). Weber set of six principles for the modern systems of Bureaucracy deriving from the idea of rational/legal authority (Gerth and Mills, 1970) (Cited in Hughes, 2012, p. 48). Weber’s first principle “The principle of fixed and official jurisdictional areas, which are generally ordered by rules,…
In 2003, Sheriff Rupf wanted a system that would allow him to share jail data with the other law enforcement agencies within the County. The desire was to create a system whereby agencies could perform searches of who was currently in jail and what their booking numbers were - all items of information that investigators needed for each of their cases. At the same time, Sacramento County was exploring the development of their own regional computer system - allowing all the member agencies to…
Greenberg, Inc’s delivery receipts to perform the company audit is the controversial issue in the case given. It had justified that the independent auditor relied on the delivery receipts as the audit evidence based on the ‘segregation of duties’ system. The case here explained that JGI’s internal control procedures for inventory had been executed by different person as the purchasing, receiving and approving functions are performed by the different people than the person who executed the…
Banking Corporation (OCBC) I am attached to one of the departments in the Group Risk Management division. At a glance, Group Risk Management (GRM) is an independent function that reports to the Group Chief Risk Officer, Vincent Choo, who is responsible for ensuring that risk management practices in OCBC are effective and comprehensive. GRM has financial responsibility in contributing independent risk control and management of credit, market, operational, liquidity and other key risks for the…
Georgia with a 100 personal staff that the company employs. The company has a 25-year history within the city and has provided majority, if not all, of the city construction and reconstruction needs. The company functions off an independent departmental system with internal technology for its day-to-day operations. The firm has chosen to hire a change agent that specializes in business analytic to improve the firm, and in order to open a second company location. The location of the second…
description of this data, designed to meet the information needs of an organization”. The Database Management System (DBMS) is software that enables users to define, create, maintain and control access to the database. The database has identified three levels of abstraction. All these three levels will have different aspects and they are as follows: • Physical or external level- The database system can show for the users the part of the database what they need to use. • Conceptual or Logical…
Virginia Commonwealth State Agency-Northrop Grumman Critical System Outage The commonwealth of Virginia experienced an information technology storage area network outage on August 25th 2010. This affected several agencies and caused 13% of the file servers to fail. The failure mainly impacted the Department of Motor Vehicles and Department of taxation. Because of the outage problem, DMV couldn’t process driver’s licenses and couldn’t share data with other agencies. (1) DMV has been unable to…
ESRI technology is Geographical Mapping System that uses real-time Technologies. For example if a product is that is shipping is time critical, or Government sensitive material the ESRI system keeps FedEx up to date on where the driver is. The driver also has a monitor that shows where is next destination is, how long it will take for him to get there, and approximate…
emergency management with a primary focus on preventing terrorist attacks. The idea behind DHS was to bring 22 different agencies under one roof to…
attending the Mays Business school at Texas A&M University I’ve learned so much about society, love, relationships, but also global issues and how they effect my peers as well as myself. Mays Business students majoring in marketing, management, management information system (MIS), and finance can make an impact and possible reduce the issue or even solve it completely. Marketing is a major known for advertising, allowing the company to get their name across and build a good reputation to boost…