Directing an organization without any means of regulating certain activities will not always work well in any organization. Innother words there must be a balance between directing and controlling.
The controlling process is one of determining how closely organizational plans and objectives are being achieved. Controls provide managers of business enterprises with an important tool for detecting and correctinh deviation from these plans, for correcting errors in previous plans, and for developing more realistic plans in the future.
The nature of controls- controls within an organization provide a valuable source of information to aid managers in making decisions and provide them with a means of stimulating and evaluating performance efficiency. In like manner, controls are both important and essential requisites for the delegation of authority and responsibility, although there are other equally cogent reasons.
Briefly observed, the management of a business enterprise entails an ordeliness and a rational character that is partly expressed in the concept of control.
Control defined- the managerial function of controlling deals with the regulating and restraining of activities. It is the measurement and correction of the performance of activities of subordinates in order to make sure that the objectives of the business enterprise as well as the plans devised to attain them are being carefully executed accomplished.
In other words, In an undertaking, control consists in verifying wether everything occurs in conformity with the plan adopted,the instructions issued and principles established . Control is frequently identified as one of three bmajot functions of a manager, planning organizing.control is closely interwined with planning so much so that in a number of instances, such term as planning and control have been used interchangeably in so far as the designation of departments which carry out production planning, scheduling and routing are concerned. Thus it is not unusual to observe the title of such department as production planning department in some companies and as production control department in others.
Control is both an executive procees and viewed from that of an organization, it is a system that gives rise to result. For this reason there are those who define it as a function of a system which provides direction in conformance to the plan.
In a very brief sense, control is the power or authority to guide or manage, in business it means the ability to make events uniform to the plan, that is it must conform with the plan devised. Without doubt effective control rests on the foundation of good planning.
Basic characteristics of Control- Control is a combination of knowledge with power- the knowledge that ones plans and directions are or are not being followed, and the power to compel compliance with orders and instructions. For effective control, the executive must possess authority and knowledge and exercise guidance, direction, constraint and restraint. He must know exactly what work is to be done, what sources are available what the situation is and what it ought to be in order to undertake necessary and appropriate actions.
Need for control- at the outset it might be asked is there any essential need fir control in business? One should recognize an indiputable fact, that is no single manager can assume that the business enterprise will automatically operate according to plan for a number of reasons such as risk and uncertainty associated with its implementation. Another is that those qho are charged with the task and responsibility of carrying the plan may fall into trap of making poor bad judgement. Thus the need for control which help identify and correct deviations from plans and thus put the organization back to its normal and proper course. Such use of control assumes the prior existence of plans and organizational structures.
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