HUMAN AND COMPUTER ASPECTS

By a Single 3 hour examinations plus 2 piece of Coursework

1. To give the student an awareness of the impact of IT on people.
2. To consider the impact at both individual level and within organisations.
3. To give potential analysts an understanding of their role as agents for change.
4. To examine the implications for the law for employment and for civil administration.

IS Management: motivation theory, human needs, group behaviour and dynamics, effect of IT on working procedures, creation of jobs.

Covering responsibility, accountability and liability within information systems. Professional Codes of Conduct and their effect on ethics, morals and professional behaviour. Privacy and Freedom in an Information Society including issues such as data protection and policing of the Internet.

An approach to defining a security policy with layers of security. Resource and Personnel Security details, Systems and Data Security details. Computer Fraud, Crime and the collection of forensic evidence. Internet Security issues including encryption, trusted third parties, sniffing, spoofing, and email security.

An overview of Human limitations and capabilities. A detailed look at Interaction Styles and I/O devices and the different approaches to design and their evaluation.

Covering change in job content, change in management style, also deskilling of jobs, changing career patterns and the need for retraining including job re-design.