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Definition of Personal Accountability - The by name management of the location and duty status of every person assigned ir attached to a unit Personnel accounting includes what? - By name recording of departure and arrivals, duty status, grade changes, assignment eligibility and availability codes Personal accountability includes who - Members, POI (army civilians), contractors, JIM (joint interagency and multinational) personnel Effective personnel accountability depends on? - Time...

Which HR system allows users to view and print Officer Record Briefs (ORB) and DA Photos? - Total Officer Personnel Management Information System (TOPMIS) II What HR system creates, validates, and modifies requisitions? - Electronic Distribution and Assignment System (EDAS) What are HR enduring principles? - responsiveness, integration, anticipation, accuracy, timeliness, synchronization CSA's top three priorities? - readiness, future army, take care of the troops What is the ob...

What is the difference between Authorized Strength and Required Strength? - Authorized strength is during peacetime and required strength is during wartime. What are the principles of personnel strength reporting? - data accuracy Timely data input Data reconciliation What is required strength? - Unit wartime requirements, found on a unit's MTOE or a MOB/deployment order or directed by the Personnel Manning Authorization Document. What is authorized strength? - unit peacetime requ...

Personnel Requirements Report {PRR} - HR managers’ report personnel requirements through a PRR. This report lists unit personnel replacement requirements by grade/MOS, and is based on comparison of authorized versus assigned strength. PERSUM - Personnel Summary: Displays a unit's personnel strength in aggregate numbers, as of a given time; used to assess combat power and set priorities PRR - Personnel requirements report: Displays a unit's personnel replacement requirements by grade...

System - a perceived whole whose elements "hang together," continually affect each other over time, & operate toward a common purpose Enterprise systems - -Open to the environment -Purposeful -Often consist of subsystems -Can be understood in terms of their inputs, transformation, & output -Often rely on feedback (making them dynamic or changeable) Process - a structured set of activities, typically including inputs, transformations, & outputs Activity - actions, tasks, or wor...

What are the organizational factors in planning a new system? - Environment, culture, structure, business processes, politics, management decisions. What are Porter's 5 competitive forces? - Bargaining power of the customer, threat of substitutions, bargaining power of suppliers, threat of new entrants rivalry. What are the four generic strategies for dealing with competitive forces? - Focus, Industry-wide, cost, differentiation. Locking in - makes a customer dependent on a sole ve...

Process efficiency - ratio of outputs to inputs Process effectiveness - how well a process achieves organizational strategy Information silos - ____ arise when IS supports department processes rather than enterprise-level processes; personal and workgroup support applications are created over time; organizations grow, especially by merger and acquisitions Customer relationship management (CRM) - suite of applications, dates, set of inherent processes; manage all interactions with cu...

What documents might you see payment terms on? - Invoice and the purchasing order Routings: - Identify the steps needed to produce one unit of product Under a make-to-stock strategy, the production process is triggered by a need to increase inventory. - True Under a make-to-order strategy, the production process is triggered by a need to increase inventory. - False Under a make-to-order strategy, the production process is triggered by a customer order. - True Under a make-to-...

Transaction Processing System (TPS) is another commonly used term for Management Information Systems (MIS) - false Effective operation within any organization requires an efficient and coordinated flow of ___________ throughout the organization - information The sales order processing system in an organization is responsible for keeping records of the number of each kind of part or finished good in the warehouse. - false Accounts payable shows the difference between the income and ex...

Data management technology - The software governing the organization of data on physical storage media Networking and telecommunications technology - Both physical devices and software, links the various pieces of hardware and transfers data from one physical location to another. Intranet - Internal corporate networks based on Internet technology Extranet - Private intranets extended to authorized users outside the organization World Wide Web - Service provided by the Internet t...