This study aimed to evaluate the effect of office automation on organizational excellence in Zahedan University of Medical Sciences. Descriptive-survey has been used in this research. Research population includes 212 employees in studied case and sample size was estimated 135 persons. The data...

Individuals in a business usually do not work entirely alone, but instead in teams, committees, departments, and other types of workgroups. To collaborate on common tasks, workgroup members can have meetings, talk on the telephone, send faxes, and distribute memos. Group members can also use...

Purpose – In the field of information systems, workflow modelling has attracted a lot of researchers. Most works in the domain do not take into consideration the concrete execution of resulting workflows. This failure puts beside the time and resource concepts. The aim of this paper is to...

Notes that the phenomenon of office automation (OA) is continually evolving and that groupworking and computer‐supported co‐operative working, supported by groupware products such as Lotus Notes, are seen as the next phase in the OA saga. Explores the concept of the “office” in today’s...

Difficulties in measuring the benefits of office automation are preventing investment in systems. Examines the problems for organizations attempting to cost‐justify office automation. Benefits attributed to office automation used to be quantifiable, however, more recently office automation is...

Office automation has failed to improve productivity and job satisfaction of white‐collar workers according to the Institute for Business Technology (IBT). Reports IBT survey findings of office inefficiencies and suggests changing habits is possible through a Personal Efficiency Programme...

Describes the design and analysis of a computer‐based information system for inventory management in a computer service company. Studies the existing manual system for possible adaptation and necessary modifications and identifies the requirements of the users and the components of the system....

The creation of a simulated office environment in West German commercial colleges is described. Its methods of operation, reasons for its introduction and why it has survived where other, similar innovations failed to catch on, are examined. Graduates of the process seem to find jobs sooner and...

This article attempts to present an overview of the state‐of‐the‐art of office automation systems. It is aimed at making the office administrator aware of the transformation currently taking place in the practice of office management caused by the computer revolution.

Flexibility in the design of offices can be designed in from the beginning and conditions can be provided which do not produce discomfort and hazardous working conditions. Trade unions are increasingly becoming concerned with the rapid introduction of information technology. A recent research...

Since 1970 ergonomics has gone a long way towards tackling the problem of optimising the interaction between people and technology in the working environment. When planning offices or workstations, designers are far more concerned about the office environment and comfort of the office workers....

The opportunity for computer‐related crime in the automated office/distributed environment is greater than in the larger, centrally driven data‐processing facilities, where access to equipment is usually easier and there is no hierarchy of physical controls as in a separate computer data...

Although many executives have a personal desk‐top computer, more often than not it is their secretary who uses it. Many executives have not yet assimilated the requisite skills. The growth of office automation is still dominated by installation of incompatible micros and departmental...