Control process
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Control is an important management function that involves establishing standards, measuring performance against those standards, comparing the results, and taking corrective actions when needed. Setting plans and structures is not enough to ensure an organization is functioning properly. Control requires planning standards and organizational structures to be effective. The basic control process involves establishing standards based on factors like profitability and productivity. Performance is then measured and compared to the standards to identify any deviations. When deviations are found, corrective actions are taken to realign performance with the plans and standards. Control must be tailored to individual managers and flexible enough to adapt to changing circumstances. Barriers to effective control can include overemphasis on short-term goals and increased employee frustration with control activities.
Control process
- 1. CONTROL PROCESS By : Rohan Solanki
- 2. WHAT IS CONTROL? Setting plan, establishing the structure and directing the people do not guarantee that every thing in the organization is going on well. Thus, control process is very important for all types of organizations. Before that what is CONTROL? Control to define is making sure that something happens the way it was planned to happen. As implied in this definition, planning and controlling are inseparable functions. Controlling is also the task of ensuring that the activities are providing the desired results.
- 3. WHY CONTROL IS IMPORTANT? Plans rarely go smoothly. Most plans are executed by people and people vary in their abilities, motivations and honesty. Plans become outdated and require revisions. For these reasons control is an important management function. Control means controlling every task in an organization – whether it is large, or delegated to some employee. Thus for every task delegated, there has to be a control system that ensures completion of performances in line with the plans
- 4. PREREQUISITES OF CONTROL SYSTEM CONTROL REQUIRES PLANNING : All meaningful control techniques are, planning techniques It is worthless to design control plans without taking in account how well the plans are made. CONTROL REQUIRES ORGANIZATION STRUCTURE : Purpose of control is to measure activities and take action to assure that plans are being accomplished. Control of activities operates through people. Therefore a major prerequisite of control is the existence of an organizational structure.
- 5. CONTROL PROCESS A basic control process involves mainly these steps : 1. Establishment of Standards 2. Measurement of Performance 3. Compare Performances 4. Taking Corrective Actions
- 6. ESTABLISHMENT OF STANDARDS Plans can be considered as the criteria or the standards against which we compare the actual performance in order to figure out the differences. Standards could be set on the basis of : Profitability standards : How much company would like to make as profit over a given period of time. Market position standards : Standards indicate the share of total sales in the market. Productivity standards : How much various segments should produce.
- 7. Employee attitude standards : Indicates what type of attitude the company managers should have to strive. Social responsibility standards : Making contributions to the society. Short range goal : Standards that set a balance between the short range and long range goals These are the standards an organization sets at the beginning of a control process.
- 8. MEASUREMENT OF PERFORMANCES AND COMPARING PERFORMANCES Measurement of performance is an important procedure of the control process, the deviations can be detected in advance by taking appropriate actions. COMPARING MEASURED PERFORMANCES TO SET STANDARDS : A standard is the level of activity established to serve as a model for evaluating organizational performance. Performance evaluated can be for the organization as a whole or for some individuals working within the organization. In simple terms, standards are the evaluations that determine an organizations performance is sufficient or inadequate.
- 9. TAKING CORRECTIVE ACTION After the actual performance has been measured and compared with the established standards, the next step is to take corrective action if necessary. Corrective action is managerial activity aimed at bringing organizational mistakes that hinder organizations performance. Before taking corrective actions, managers should make sure that the standards are properly established and that their measurements of performance are valid and reliable.
- 10. REQUIREMENTS FOR ADEQUATE CONTROL Control should be tailored to plans and positions. Control must be tailored o individual managers and their responsibilities. Control should point up exceptions as critical points. Control should be objective. Control should be flexible. Control should be economical. Control should lead to corrective actions.
- 11. TYPES OF CONTROL : Pre Control : Control that takes place before the work is performed. It is also known as FEED-FORWARD Control. Pre control focuses on eliminating predicted problems. Concurrent Control : Refers to the control that takes place as work is being performed. Feedback Control : This refers to the control that concentrates on the post organizational performance.
- 12. BARRIERS TO SUCCESSFUL CONTROLLING Barriers to controlling include : Control activities can create undesirable overemphasis on short term production as opposed to long term production. Control activities can increase employee’s frustration. Control can encourage falsification of reports.
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