The word
control is commonly used in practice. You must have come across statements,
like control your anger, control your expenses, save money and control your
kids. In common parlance, word control means to check or verify, to regulate,
to curb or restrain, etc., However, in the context of a business it means a
process of controlling the activities of an organisation.
Control is the
process through which managers assure that actual activities confirm to planned
activities. Control is directly related to planning. The process of controlling
ensures that the plans are being implemented properly. In the functions
management cycle Planning, Organising, directing and controlling, planning
stands primarily before all other functions and controlling as the final
function.
“The
managerial control implies the measurement of accomplishment against the
standard and the correction of deviation to assure attainment of objectives
according to plans”. Koontz and O’Donnell
In the words
of G.R. Terry, “Controlling is the determining what is being accomplished that
is evaluating the performance and, if necessary, applying corrected measures so
that the performance takes place according to plan”.
Control is a
fundamental and managerial function that usually follows other functions. But
like planning and other functions, control is also a continuing process of
management. More than any other functions; control becomes intimately connected
to planning and has the same characteristics of unity, continuity, flexibility
and pervasiveness as are present in planning. Controlling as a function of
management, therefore, means the measurement and correction of performance of
activities of subordinates in order to make sure that enterprise objectives,
and the plans devised to attain them are accomplished.
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