---HRM Assignment # 2---

We are to think of the future, and develop a Job Description for a job we would like to hold someday.

Its hard to pick my own future job for it requires self esteem in dealing such difficult works; however, I have to chose which I really like to be with someday. I want to be an Information Technology Director. I choose this job for I want to manage and direct such companies and offices in the future. I'm looking forward for this job, for since I want to handle position that needs critical analysis, and a little bit complicated so that I can develop my skills in thinking. The mere fact the I am an IT student is the mere fact that it has a greater chance to be an IT Director. Here are some descriptions of an IT Director.

IT Director Job Description

This is a real-world description for an IT director. The description itself is several years old, but 95% of it is still appropriate for today.
ROLE-SPECIFIC COMPETENCIES


Networking
• Plans and implements additions, deletions and major modifications to the supporting infrastructure company-wide in coordination with corporate leadership.
• Oversees the implementation of network security at the corporate level.
• Anticipates future network needs, identifies proactive solutions to satisfy needs.

Telephony
• Oversees the planning and management of the company's telephone system and manages company-wide upgrade efforts.



Help Desk Administration
• Oversees the management of corporate help desk activities and resolves escalated issues if necessary.

Asset Management
• Helps establish and build relationships with vendors in conjunction with corporate leadership.
• Oversees all IT-related purchasing and budget usage; works with Accounting to develop budgets.
• Holds responsibility for capacity planning and scheduling vendor negotiations related to IT.

CAREER PATH CORE COMPETENCIES

Communication
• Ensures department is well informed, at all times, of changes and news worthy events within the company.
• Effectively communicates relevant IT-related information to superiors.
• Handles difficult personnel situations directly, using appropriate discretion, HR advice, and respect for the individual.
• Promotes the company through speaking engagements at industry conferences and involvement in local business organizations.

Management
• Exercises staff oversight to ensure new operations plans, policies, procedures, and transition/migration plans are consistent with the overall company goals and objectives.
• Holds responsibility for IT staffing and budgeting projections on a company-wide basis.

PROFESSIONAL QUALITIES

Leadership
• Achieves excellence in all areas of business.
• Champions change and effectively manages the implementation of new ideas.

Teamwork
• Reinforces team approach throughout practice both on client projects and internal initiatives.
• Supports and solicits input from team members at all levels within the organization.
• Ensures regular team and practice events take place away from the office.

Client Management
• Communicates effectively with internal clients to identify needs and evaluate alternative business solutions and strategies.
• Continually defines ways to increase internal client satisfaction and deepen client relationships.
• Maintains lasting internal client relationships
• Ensures practice delivers superior solutions to internal clients.
• Provides senior level resolution to internal client issues.

ORGANIZATIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES

Innovator Development
• Participates in all programs and enforces all policies relating to performance evaluations and career development planning.
• Reviews management evaluations for consistency.
• Impresses upon management the importance of the career planning and performance evaluation programs.
• Creates an environment where Innovators can successfully achieve professional career path goals.
• Manages the development of project managers and senior managers.
• Assigns tasks to practice management that give managers an opportunity to grow.

Internal Operations
• Reviews status reports of Project Managers and Senior Managers and addresses issues as appropriate.
• Lends expertise to internal teams and task forces.
• Enforces standard company policies and procedures.



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---MIS Assignment # 3----

Let us first define what is Automated Elections? There is no particular definition on automated election. However to give an overview Automated election is conducted through computers where people cast their vote on machines instead of paper ballots. The counting of votes is fast and the results are announced within a short period of time.

But every turning of points to an end has always questions to answer with. Are Philippines ready for the first automated elections? How will Election Automation affect the Philippines? Turns out any successful implementation have effects beyond the political arena, as pointed by any who wants to remain anonymous. We’ve gone many trials and success to every endeavor we made and I believe that our country Philippines have reached to its technological level. Yes, we are now adopting this high technology in voting. In addition to that we Filipinos have these skeptical feelings about the upcoming elections. Why is this so? Maybe, because we are afraid to come up with unsatisfied output. We don’t have any knowledge about this computerized election but do we really have to argue about pursuing or not pursuing this first automated election in the Philippines? I guess we have to discuss and analyze first the cons and pros of implementing this newly form of election.

Whether the Philippines implement an automated election is not the point in question. Automation of the election process in the Philippines is simply a way to show that we have upgraded our gears. The question is, “Have we changed our culture in politics?” Well, this time, the ballots are not the things to be protected but voting machines in the automated election.
Philippine election officials can learn how to run automated elections properly. Primarily by designing election machines that make sense to the average Filipino voter, and relying on the results of sustained testing for any necessary revisions to the system.

Malacañang Palace assume that people behind every controversy between Total Information Management (TIM) and Smartmatic would give a valid reason on making such irrelevance act on not pursuing the agreement in the incoming first automated election. This steps made by Malacañang when TIM negotiate with Smartmatic and fully quit the agreement made by two bidders in the past weeks. According to Presidential adviser on Political Affairs Gabriel Claudio, they mark that every person involves in the said controversy will surely face the consequence and answers all the questions why they change their mind about the negotiation. Who will benefit when 2010 poll automation canceled? It would give a big chance and happiness for those people who really want to steal in every election. If the government would really want to pursue a peace, organize and easy election, then poll automation should bounce back and implemented. But the problem is, cheating would mostly happen for those personnel and officials whom handling the power.

The past “Hello Garci” issue would remain from time to time if we would not make a move on how to kill this rat election. It would still happen again in different and more crucial ways if this unprogressive election would be implemented again. Well, bias politician pray that poll automation would be cancelled, so that they can do what they did in the past election. But who knows are we really confident on poll automation? It doesn’t mean that if Total Information Management (TIM) back out as a local partner of Smartmatic, computerize election would be canceled. However, officials involve in Commission on Election said that it’s a matter of time upon preparing the computerize election this 2010. Months, days and even years, they already plan this poll automation on election. Funds and Budgets are indeed ready already, in the past months they all settled it for the preparation of the incoming election together with the said companies, but unfortunately TIM decided not to continue the negotiation last weeks for the reason that they feel soar grapping. Officials and even normal citizen worry about the election for they are thinking that we have to use back the lection which we used to be. Counting of votes are they pointing why bias election appeared. Why not looking for other companies where in fact theres a lot of available companies that they could negotiate which fit on supplying machines and computers in the public?

Sour grapping that’s how the chair of the Commission on Elections, Jose Melo, described the Senate probe into the winning bidder to automate the 2010 elections. These bidders, Melo noted, have sent letters to the commission raising doubts on the bidding process, the ownership of Smartmatic, its eligibility and the capability of the voting machines. He challenged the losing bidders to file a formal suit with the commission. Under the contract, bidders who want to appeal must deposit a bond of P112m. to the Comelec which amounts to 1 percent of the projects price of P11.2b. Malacañang is unfaced by doubts senators have raised over the credibility and ability of a Barbados. Based consortium to conduct the first fully automated national and local elections in the Philippines next year. Well they believe that 11 months away from the elections they are confident that the comelec will be able to handle the situation. And luckily after a long debate these winning bidders finally accept the memorandum of agreements and still the companies to provide the computerize machines which will be used in the upcoming 2010 first automated elections in the Philippines.

After the withdrawal of Total Information Management (TIM) from its join venture Smartmatic to supply the needs in upcoming elections, senate makes a move to settle everything and their differences and put national concern first before anything else. And at last the congress fully settle the miscommunication between the two bidders which the fruit and source of the Automated Elections in the Philippines. Senators are working to make things possible and take any risk just to put things in a formal way. Press release that we don’t have to take this manual election which cause delayed of announcing winners. We don’t have to wait weeks and days for the results to come out. I wish that the automated elections will happen because that will surely help us. Learning innovations about the standard election would greatly give a confident to every voters, but having this first automated election in the country would also give an advantages and disadvantages to everyone. But we have to take risk for we take the chance. Not only for our own profit but to our "kababayan" also.


Source: Sunstar Davao