Utvärdering av kommunalpolitikers informationsförsörjning
en informationsaudit i Härryda kommun.
Information is one of the organization's essential resources, and as such it needs strategic management. The authors use the information audit, which was developed by Orna 1999 and Henczel 2000 as a tool to evaluate how well an organization's information activities connect to its mission, goals, and objectives, to evaluate the municipal politicians' information support in Härryda municipality. The decision situations met by politicians often are complex; they are ambiguous and unstructured, with a high level of uncertainty. Human information sources meet needs arising in this kind of decision situations best. Since most of the politicians work full-time besides being politicians, Härryda municipality has to substitute the human sources by textual ones composed of highly summarized information. The municipal administration is responsible for providing the politicians with formal information and the three committee secretaries provide the politicians with information of a more momentary nature. The authors came to the conclusion that the municipality is quite successful in providing the politicians with information support despite the lack of well-formulated goals.