African Journal of Business Management Vol. 6(8), pp. 2839-2847, 29 February, 2012 Available online at http://www.academicjournals.org/AJBM DOI: 10.5897/AJBM11.411 ISSN 1993-8233 ©2012 Academic Journals

Full Length Research Paper

Key issues relating to management information systems from the perspective of managers of Iran’s agricultural extension providers
Abdolmotalleb Rezaei*, Ali Asadi and Ahmad Rezvanfar
Department of Agricultural Extension and Education, University of Tehran, Karaj, Iran.
Accepted 26 May, 2011

The purpose of the paper is to investigate issues relating to the management information systems of agricultural extension providers in Iran. A survey study was applied as a methodology of research work. Data were collected using a structured questionnaire that addressed evaluating managers’ responses with regard to management information system (MIS) key issues. All issues had mean score greater than five as perceived by managers. This would suggest that most key issues are moderately important in the present time. To delineate more clearly the relationships between the organizational factors and MIS key issues ratings, a descriptive model is currently under development. Future work is to formulate a research model that more precisely describes the relationship between the organization's factors and the MIS key issues rankings across the countries. The organization factors should extend factors covered in the present study to those that are broadly pertinent to the dimensions of the organization's operating environment. To identification of issues of agricultural extension management information system, and how the managers rate the importance of the MIS issues according to organizational factors. The paper advances a clear plan of action for improving the management information system in the area of agricultural extension providers to all