Management

Control is the process of monitoring and evaluating activities to ensure that they are being accomplished as planned.

• False

• True

Control is the only managerial function that allows managers to make sure that organizational goals are being met.

• True

• False

The feedback provided by the control process about mistakes already made may not be able to correct them, but it can help improve things in the future.

• False

• True

________ refers to the process of monitoring, comparing, and correcting work performance..

• Controlling

• Checking

• Measuring

• Verifying

Controlling is needed at which level of management?

• Top Level

• Middle Level

• Lower Level

• All Level

From the process point of view, which is the best statement of the purpose of control?

• To enable the system to adapt to environmental changes

• To ensure that the plan is achieved

• To know in advance what is likely to happen

• To minimise change from predetermined standards

• To provide information for managers to act

The management function which sees to it that the right things happen, in the right way, and at the right time, is known as ________.

• controlling

• organizing

• planning

• leading

• staffing

Which of the following is true of controlling?

• It is all about setting goals and making plans.

• It is primarily involved in creating structures.

• It sees to it that the right things happen, in the right way, and at the right time.

• It sets the directions and allocates resources.

• It brings people and material resources together in working combinations.

________ control is also known as steering control.

• Feedback

• Post-action

• Concurrent

• Feedforward

• Preliminary

________ control is also known as preliminary control.

• Concurrent

• Steering

• Feedback

• Feedforward