Assement of Management Information System Application: the Case of Flour Factories in Nazareth

Management Information System is regarded as among those organizational system components, which (if not properly used and implemented) bring an adverse effect on the sustainability of the organization. Management information system began to be developed in 1969's and one characterized by the use of information system to produce managerial report (Ralph M Stair 1998). The objective of this study i~ assessing the application of management information systems in private and government owned wheat flour companies.Structured to compete in highly market competition and experiencing poor organizational performance are the two typical problems arising from absence or utilizing primitive management information system application. in many IJ organizations. This cross - sectional study was conducted in east slwwa zone in the town of Nazar~th._Data gathering techniques such, as interview and questionnaire were used On the basis of these, particularly qualitative data were gathered which were analyzed by applying different statistical methods. The study found poor / primitive application of " - management information systems in the selected organisations. Additionally, the industry hardly deployed computer based information system.