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Article: ERP implementation and its effect on a few variables of organization structure and manager's job.(enterprise resource planning)
- Article from:
- Journal of Academy of Business and Economics
- Article date:
- March 1, 2005
- Author:
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ABSTRACT
ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems are used in the organizations for information integration and aligning & streamlining their processes for delivering high value to the customers. Through its very use, it influences manager's jobs and the organization structure as well. This paper seeks to evaluate the impact of ERP on organizations, and examines the ways manager's job and organization structures have changed. We have investigated effect of ERP implementation on five dimensions of Manager's job (autonomy, use of power, delegation, people skills and privileged information), five dimensions of organizational structure (specialization, ...