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CONTROL PROCESSES
AND SYSTEMS
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OUTLINE
1. Nature of control
Controlling
Benefits:
• Make continuous improvement a
shared norm
• Encourage to take responsibility
for how they - who involved, acted,
what they achived, how they can do
better in the future
Types of controls
Feedforward Controls
Concurrent Controls
Feedback Controls
Feedforward, concurrent, and feedback controls.
Take place before a work
activity begins
Ensure:
• Objectives are clear
Feedforward • Proper direction are
Controls established
• The right resources are
(Preliminary Controls) available
=>To accomplish the objectives.
Ensure:
• Solve problem after they
occur
Feedback Controls • Prevent future ones
(Post-action Controls) =>Improve things in the future.
● Require a high
● Improve self-
degree of trust
management skill
● Capability to
● Freedom organize mission to
do jobs well
● Exercise self-
● Hardly adapt with
discipline the complex
culture
External control (Self-control)
Bureaucratic control
Clan control
Market control
• People act in harmony with
organizational interests
• Influences behavior through
authority, policies, procedures, job
description, budgets and day-to-
day supervision
• Laws and regulations: establishes
procedures to regulate the financial
reporting and governance on
publicly traded corporations Bureaucratic control
Advantages:
Assess performance
Make sure members behave
toward one another respectfully
Disadvantages:
● Costly
● Uncomplexible reacting to
unforeseen events
● Rules are easy to make but difficult
to eradicate
Clan control
(Normative control)
Drawbacks:
● Lack of structures
● Not perform at full
capacity
Market control
Influences of market competition on the
behavior of organizations and their members
Drawbacks
The control
process
Four steps in the control process
1. Establishing objectives
and standards
Output standards
Measure performance results
in terms of quantity, quality,
cost, or time
Input standards
Measure effort in terms of
amount of work expended in
task performance
2. comparing results with
objectives and standards
Control equation:
Need for action = Desired Performance – Actual Performance
Comparison methods:
• Engineering comparison
• Historical comparison
• Relative comparison
4. Take corrective action
Management by
exception
Giving attention to
situations showing the
greatest need for action
Types of exceptions
Taking action when a • Problem situation
discrepancy exists between • Opportunity situation
desired and actual performance
Control tools
and techniques
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t n ta Projects
j ec me
r o e one-time activities with many
P nag l component tasks must be
a
M ntro completed in proper order and
according to budget
co Gantt chart
graphically displays the scheduling of tasks
required to complete a project
CPM/PERT
A combination of the critical path
method and program evaluation
and review technique
Gantt Chart
Critical Path
Inventory control
What is Inventory ?
Inventory control
Ensures that inventory is only big
enough to meet immediate needs
Routes materials to
workstations just in time for
use
Breakeven analysis
Breakeven point
Occurs where
revenues just equal
costs
Breakeven Point = Fixed Costs ÷ (Price – Variable Costs)
Breakeven analysis
Performs what-if calculations
under different revenue and
cost conditions
Use of breakeven analysis to make informed “what-if” decisions
Financial Controls
Balance sheet Format
shows assets and liabilities
at one point in time Assets = Liabilitieso
Income statement
Shows profits or
losses at one point
in time
1 Financial performance
2 Customer satisfaction
Internal
Process
improvement
Case study
In a company the manager is trying
to find out the deviation between the
actual number of fans produced and
a desired number. He already
knows about the standard as the
company has assigned him a
definite quantity of fans to be
produced.
Identify the step of controlling
process applicable in this case.
Explain why?
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