... know the importance of control and realise what control brings for them, strive to control individuals towards to achieving their organisation objectives. This matter in itself should really be an objective for the organisation. Huczynski and Buchanan also describe this in the textbook. Organisational control can have three main connotations: 1. It is an economically necessary activity. If control breaks down, then operations get out of hand, resources were wasted, money is spent unnecessarily. Control is therefore a means of securing efficiency by achieving the continuing best use of resources. 2. It is psychologically necessary to create stable and predictable conditions within which people can work effectively. Control is thus a means of establishing predictability as psychological well being and work. performance can be disrupted by uncertainty, ambiguity and disorder. 3. It is a political process in which certain powerful individuals and groups dominate others. Decisions in the control process are taken by managers ...

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