Business Studies

Controlling

Question:

Following are some behaviours that you and others might engage in on the job. For each item, choose the behaviour that management must keep a check to ensure an efficient control system.
1.Biased performance appraisals.
2.Using company’s supplies for personal use.
3.Asking a person to violate company’s rules.
4.Calling office to take a day off when one is sick.
5.Overlooking boss’s error to prove loyalty
6. Claiming credit for someone else’s morn.
7. Reporting a violation on noticing it.
8. Falsifying quality reports.
9. Taking longer than necessary to do the job.
10. Setting standards in consultation with workers.
You are also required to suggest the management how the undesirable behaviour can be controlled.

Answer:

1. To avoid biased appraisal, performance appraisal should be taken by a committee of experts.
2. The statement are not so expensive, so it can be ignored.
3. Strict and immediate disciplinary action should be taken.
4. Mass bunking should not be allowed.
5. Secret suggestion box can be used to” collect feedback about the boss for appraisal.
6. Performance records of employees to be maintained.
7. If minor can be over looked.
8. Strict quality control techniques should be used.
9. Time and motion study should be used to fix standard.
10. The use of scientific techniques can help in fixing the most feasible and optimum standards.

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Controlling

Q 1.

‘An effort to control everything may end up in controlling nothing’. Explain.

Q 2.

Discuss the relationship between planning and controlling.

Q 3.

Following are some behaviours that you and others might engage in on the job. For each item, choose the behaviour that management must keep a check to ensure an efficient control system.
1.Biased performance appraisals.
2.Using company’s supplies for personal use.
3.Asking a person to violate company’s rules.
4.Calling office to take a day off when one is sick.
5.Overlooking boss’s error to prove loyalty
6. Claiming credit for someone else’s morn.
7. Reporting a violation on noticing it.
8. Falsifying quality reports.
9. Taking longer than necessary to do the job.
10. Setting standards in consultation with workers.
You are also required to suggest the management how the undesirable behaviour can be controlled.

Q 4.

Planning is looking ahead and controlling is looking back comment.

Q 5.

Explain how management audit serves as an effective technique of controlling.

Q 6.

A company M limited is manufacturing mobile phones both for domestic Indian market as well as for export. It had enjoyed a substantial market share and also had a loyal customer following. But lately it has been experiencing problems because its targets have not been met with regard to sales and customer satisfaction. Also mobile market in India has grown tremendously and new players have come with better technology and pricing. This is causing problems for the company. It is planning to revamp its controlling system and take other steps necessary to rectify the problems it is facing.

1. Identify the benefits the company will define from a good control system.

Q 7.

Explain the techniques of managerial control.

Q 8.

Write a short note on budgetary control as a technique of managerial control.

Q 9.

Give the steps in the control process that the company should follow to remove the problems it is facing.

Q 10.

What techniques of control can the company use?

Q 11.

Explain the meaning of controlling.

Q 12.

Explain the various steps involved in the process of control.

Q 13.

Explain the importance of controlling in an organisation. What are the problems faced by the organisation in implementing an effective control system?

Q 14.

How can the company relate its planning with control in this line of business to ensure that its plans are actually implemented and targets attained?