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Introduction
to
Controlling
Chapter
17
Management
Stephen P. Robbins Mary Coulter
tenth edition
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Learning
Outcomes
Follow this Learning Outline as you read and study this
chapter.
17.1 What Is Control and Why Is It Important?
Define controlling.
Discuss the reasons why control is important.
Explain the planning-controlling link.
17.2 The Control Process
Describe the three steps in the control process.
Explain why what is measured is more critical than how it’s measured.
Explain the three courses of action managers can take in controlling.
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Learning
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17.3 Controlling Organizational Performance
Define organizational performance.
Describe three most frequently used
measures of organizational performance.
17.4 Tools for Measuring Organizational Performance
Contrast feedforward, concurrent, and feedback controls.
Explain the types of financial and information controls managers can use.
Describe how balanced scorecards and benchmarking are used in controlling.
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17.5 Contemporary Issues in Control
Describe how managers may have to
adjust controls for cross-cultural differences.
Discuss the types of workplace concerns managers face and how they can address those concerns.
Explain why control is important to customer interactions.
Define corporate governance.
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What
Is Control?
Controlling
The process of monitoring activities to ensure that they
are being accomplished as planned and of correcting any significant deviations.
The Purpose of Control
To ensure that activities are completed in ways that lead to accomplishment of organizational goals.
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Why
Is Control Important?
As the final link in management functions:
Planning
Controls let
managers know whether their goals and plans are on target and what future actions to take.
Empowering employees
Control systems provide managers with information and feedback on employee performance.
Protecting the workplace
Controls enhance physical security and help minimize workplace disruptions.
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Exhibit
17–1 The Planning–Controlling Link
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The
Control Process
The Process of Control
Measuring actual performance.
Comparing actual performance against
a standard.
Taking action to correct deviations or inadequate standards.
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Exhibit
17–2 The Control Process
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Measuring:
How and What We Measure
Sources of Information (How)
Personal observation
Statistical reports
Oral
reports
Written reports
Control Criteria (What)
Employees
Satisfaction
Turnover
Absenteeism
Budgets
Costs
Output
Sales
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Exhibit
17–3 Common Sources of Information for
Measuring Performance
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Comparing
Determining
the degree of variation between actual performance and the standard.
Significance
of variation is determined by:
The acceptable range of variation from the standard (forecast or budget).
The size (large or small) and direction (over or under) of the variation from the standard (forecast or budget).
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Exhibit
17–4 Defining the Acceptable Range of
Variation
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Exhibit
17–5 Example of Determining Significant Variation
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Taking
Managerial Action
Courses of Action
“Doing nothing”
Only if deviation is judged to
be insignificant.
Correcting actual (current) performance
Immediate corrective action to correct the problem at once.
Basic corrective action to locate and to correct the source of the deviation.
Corrective Actions
Change strategy, structure, compensation scheme, or training programs; redesign jobs; or fire employees
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Taking
Managerial Action
Courses of Action (cont’d)
Revising the standard
Examining the standard to
ascertain whether or not the standard is realistic, fair, and achievable.
Upholding the validity of the standard.
Resetting goals that were initially set too low or too high.
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Exhibit
17–6 Managerial Decisions in the Control
Process
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Controlling
for Organizational Performance
What Is Performance?
The end result of an activity
What
Is Organizational
Performance?
The accumulated end results of all of the organization’s work processes and activities
Designing strategies, work processes, and work activities.
Coordinating the work of employees.
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Organizational
Performance Measures
Organizational Productivity
Productivity: the overall output of goods and/or
services divided by the inputs needed to generate that output.
Output: sales revenues
Inputs: costs of resources (materials, labor expense, and facilities)
Ultimately, productivity is a measure of how efficiently employees do their work.
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Organizational
Performance Measures (cont’d)
Organizational Effectiveness
Measuring how appropriate organizational goals are and
how well the organization is achieving its goals.
Systems resource model
The ability of the organization to exploit its environment in acquiring scarce and valued resources.
The process model
The efficiency of an organization’s transformation process in converting inputs to outputs.
The multiple constituencies model
The effectiveness of the organization in meeting each constituencies’ needs.
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Industry
and Company Rankings
Industry rankings on:
Profits
Return on revenue
Return on shareholders’ equity
Growth
in profits
Revenues per employee
Revenues per dollar of assets
Revenues per dollar of equity
Corporate Culture Audits
Compensation and benefits surveys
Customer satisfaction
surveys
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Exhibit
17–7 Popular Industry and Company Rankings
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Tools
for Measuring Organizational Performance
Feedforward Control
A control that prevents anticipated problems
before actual occurrences of the problem.
Building in quality through design.
Requiring suppliers conform to ISO 9002.
Concurrent Control
A control that takes place while the monitored activity is in progress.
Direct supervision: management by walking around.
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Tools
for Measuring Organizational Performance (cont’d)
Feedback Control
A control that takes place
after an activity is done.
Corrective action is after-the-fact, when the problem has already occurred.
Advantages of feedback controls:
Provide managers with information on the effectiveness of their planning efforts.
Enhance employee motivation by providing them with information on how well they are doing.
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Exhibit
17–8 Types of Control
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Financial
Controls
Traditional Controls
Ratio analysis
Liquidity
Leverage
Activity
Profitability
Budget Analysis
Quantitative standards
Deviations
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Exhibit
17–9 Popular Financial Ratios
Objective Ratio Calculation Meaning
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Exhibit
17–9 Popular Financial Ratios (cont’d)
Objective Ratio Calculation Meaning
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Financial
Controls
Managing Earnings
“Timing” income and expenses to enhance current financial results,
which gives an unrealistic picture of the organization’s financial performance.
New laws and regulations require companies to clarify their financial information.
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Tools
for Measuring Organizational Performance (cont’d.)
Balanced Scorecard
Is a measurement tool that
uses goals set by managers in four areas to measure a company’s performance:
Financial
Customer
Internal processes
People/innovation/growth assets
Is intended to emphasize that all of these areas are important to an organization’s success and that there should be a balance among them.
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Information
Controls
Purposes of Information Controls
As a tool to help managers control
other organizational activities.
Managers need the right information at the right time and in the right amount.
As an organizational area that managers need to control.
Managers must have comprehensive and secure controls in place to protect the organization’s important information.
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Information
Controls (cont’d)
Management Information Systems (MIS)
A system used to provide management
with needed information on a regular basis.
Data: an unorganized collection of raw, unanalyzed facts (e.g., unsorted list of customer names).
Information: data that has been analyzed and organized such that it has value and relevance to managers.
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Benchmarking
of Best Practices
Benchmark
The standard of excellence against which to measure
and compare.
Benchmarking
Is the search for the best practices among competitors or noncompetitors that lead to their superior performance.
Is a control tool for identifying and measuring specific performance gaps and areas for improvement.
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Contemporary
Issues in Control
Cross-Cultural Issues
The use of technology to increase direct
corporate control of local operations
Legal constraints on corrective actions in foreign countries
Difficulty with the comparability of data collected from operations in different countries
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Contemporary
Issues in Control (cont’d)
Workplace Concerns
Workplace privacy versus workplace monitoring:
E-mail, telephone,
computer, and Internet usage
Productivity, harassment, security, confidentiality, intellectual property protection
Employee theft
The unauthorized taking of company property by employees for their personal use.
Workplace violence
Anger, rage, and violence in the workplace is affecting employee productivity.
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Exhibit
17–11 Top Internet Video Sites Viewed
at Work
Top 10 Internet video brands viewed in the U.S. while
at work for January 2008, in millions of streams
Source: Bobby White, “The New
Workplace Rules: No Video
Watching,” Wall Street Journal,
March 4, 2008, p. B3.
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Exhibit
17–12 Controlling Employee Theft
Sources: Based on A.H. Bell and
D.M. Smith. “Protecting the Company Against Theft and Fraud,” Workforce Online (www.workforce.com) December 3, 2000; J.D. Hansen. “To Catch a Thief,” Journal of Accountancy, March 2000, pp. 43–46; and J. Greenberg, “The Cognitive Geometry of Employee Theft,” in Dysfunctional Behavior in Organizations: Nonviolent and Deviant Behavior, eds. S.B. Bacharach, A. O’Leary-Kelly, J.M. Collins, and R.W. Griffin (Stamford, CT: JAI Press, 1998), pp. 147–93.
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Exhibit
17–13 Workplace Violence
Witnessed yelling or other verbal abuse 42%
Yelled at co-workers themselves 29%
Cried
over work-related issues 23%
Seen someone purposely damage
machines or furniture 14%
Seen physical violence in the workplace 10%
Struck a co-worker 2%
Source: Integra Realty Resources, October-November Survey of Adults 18 and Over, in “Desk Rage.” BusinessWeek, November 20, 2000, p. 12.
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Exhibit
17–14 Controlling Workplace Violence
Sources: Based on M. Gorkin, “Five
Strategies and Structures for Reducing Workplace Violence,” Workforce Online (www.workforce.com). December 3, 2000; “Investigating Workplace Violence: Where Do You Start?” Workforce Online (www.forceforce.com), December 3, 2000; “Ten Tips on Recognizing and Minimizing Violence,” Workforce Online (www.workforce.com), December 3, 2000; and “Points to Cover in a Workplace Violence Policy,” Workforce Online (www.workforce.com), December 3, 2000.
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Contemporary
Issues in Control (cont’d)
Customer Interactions
Service profit chain
Is the service sequence
from employees to customers to profit.
Service capability affects service value which impacts on customer satisfaction that, in turn, leads to customer loyalty in the form of repeat business (profit).
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Contemporary
Issues in Control (cont’d)
Corporate Governance
The system used to govern a
corporation so that the interests of the corporate owners are protected.
Changes in the role of boards of directors
Increased scrutiny of financial reporting (Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002)
More disclosure and transparency of corporate financial information
Certification of financial results by senior management
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Terms
to Know
controlling
market control
bureaucratic control
clan control
control process
range of variation
immediate corrective action
basic
corrective action
performance
organizational performance
productivity
organizational effectiveness
feedforward control
concurrent control
management by walking around
feedback control
economic value added (EVA)
market value added (MVA)
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Terms
to Know (cont’d)
management information system (MIS)
data
information
balanced scorecard
benchmarking
employee theft
service profit chain
corporate
governance
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