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Controlling Function of Management

Controlling is the management function of comparing actual performance to planned performance, identifying deviations, and taking corrective action. It ensures efficient use of resources to achieve goals. Controlling measures deviations, discovers their causes, and helps take actions to remedy issues. It has two main purposes: facilitating coordination between parts of an organization, and aiding the planning process by learning from past performance. Controlling is an end function that all managers perform to look forward and make adjustments when needed based on experience.

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Controlling Function of Management

Controlling is the management function of comparing actual performance to planned performance, identifying deviations, and taking corrective action. It ensures efficient use of resources to achieve goals. Controlling measures deviations, discovers their causes, and helps take actions to remedy issues. It has two main purposes: facilitating coordination between parts of an organization, and aiding the planning process by learning from past performance. Controlling is an end function that all managers perform to look forward and make adjustments when needed based on experience.

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Controlling Function of Management

What is Controlling?

Controlling consists of verifying whether everything occurs in confirmities with the plans
adopted, instructions issued and principles established. Controlling ensures that there is
effective and efficient utilization of organizational resources so as to achieve the planned
goals. Controlling measures the deviation of actual performance from the standard
performance, discovers the causes of such deviations and helps in taking corrective
actions

According to Brech, “Controlling is a systematic exercise which is called as a process of


checking actual performance against the standards or plans with a view to ensure
adequate progress and also recording such experience as is gained as a contribution to
possible future needs.”

According to Donnell, “Just as a navigator continually takes reading to ensure whether he


is relative to a planned action, so should a business manager continually take reading to
assure himself that his enterprise is on right course.”

Controlling has got two basic purposes

1. It facilitates co-ordination
2. It helps in planning

Features of Controlling Function

Following are the characteristics of controlling function of management-

1. Controlling is an end function- A function which comes once the performances


are made in confirmities with plans.
2. Controlling is a pervasive function- which means it is performed by managers at
all levels and in all type of concerns.
3. Controlling is forward looking- because effective control is not possible without
past being controlled. Controlling always look to future so that follow-up can be
made whenever required.
4. Controlling is a dynamic process- since controlling requires taking reviewal
methods, changes have to be made wherever possible.
5. Controlling is related with planning- Planning and Controlling are two
inseperable functions of management. Without planning, controlling is a
meaningless exercise and without controlling, planning is useless. Planning
presupposes controlling and controlling succeeds planning.

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