The Importance Of Organizational Control

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Organizational control is without a doubt one of the most significant components within managerial function. Driving an organization’s operations, output and performance, managerial control ensures that the strategic goals of an organization are realized such that any deviations from the standards receive appropriate correction for the realization of better performance outcomes. Actually, Griffin (2011) describes management control as the systematic effort for setting the performance standards with the planning objectives and designing feedback systems. As highlighted by Griffin (2011), management control determines if there exists any deviation while also comparing the actual performance/output with predetermined standards and taking appropriate actions.
Regardless of the fact that an organization has option to focus the control on the inputs, its production, or the outputs, it is compelled to decide on a suitable control-implementation approach between market control, clan control and the currently transforming bureaucratic control. To managers, however, control and the associated approaches are often a tough balancing act. On one hand a close monitoring is required to ensure minimum levels of ineffective processes, on the other hand some level/degree of autonomy is needed for positive response (Boucher, 2013). Due to this, the latter management approach has of recent been questioned widely regarding its effectiveness in managing modern organizations where contemporary management techniques have taken root. To a greater extent this management approach has received significant changes and a consequent new outlook. So as to fully examine bureaucratic control in light of the various changes experienced, it is imperative to conduc...

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...ons regarding the techniques used in the management of organizations. Bureaucratic controls have been widely discussed in terms of their relevance in the modern era. Actually, the fact that the traditional policies have been questioned has only served to create a significant dissatisfaction with the bureaucratic controls. As highlighted, the only choice that has seemed to offer the modern management teams what they desire is more of a combination of bureaucratic control and other preferred alternatives to some of its questioned principles with regards to this, the emergence of post bureaucratic control, otherwise commonly termed as high commitment management, was in evitable. With the unveiling trends of management in the modern times, it is without a doubt that bureaucratic controls will soon loose a larger part of their share in the management of organizations.

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