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Love and kush are two friends. Both are MBA (final year) students. One day, their professor called them to class stage for a surprise Test. He told that one of them will establish a relationship between any two functions of management. Then the other one will establish a reverse relationship between the same two functions. Both will have to give justification for the relationship explained by them. It was a test carrying 50marks. But the students were Intelligent and skillful. Love was the first to speak.

Love said that in his opinion of the functions of management selected by him one is always looking ahead (future) and the other is looking back (past).

No sooner did love express his opinion, than Kush identified the function selected by
(love). In his reply, Kush said that the one function stated by love to have been looking ahead was in his opinion, looking back and the other one stated by him (love) to have been looking back was looking ahead.

  1. Identify the functions of the management discussed in the above paragraph.
  2. Justify the contrary relations of management functions as viewed by love and Kush.

Answer

  1. Planning and controlling.
  2. Plans are prepared for future and involve looking ahead. On the contrary, controlling is like a postmortem of past activities to find out deviations from the standards. In that sense controlling is a backward-looking function. However, it should be understood that planning is guided by past experiences and the corrective action initiated by control function.

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Some More Questions From Controlling Chapter

Explain how controlling helps in ‘achieving better co-ordination’ and ‘better planning’.

‘Controlling is an indispensable function of management’. Do you agree? Give four reasons in support of your answer.

If planning is done carefully and accordingly other functions of management are going in the right direction, then there is no need of the controlling function of management. Do you agree with this statement? Give reasons in support of your answer.

How does controlling help in ‘achieving objectives’ and ‘improving employees morale’?

“Controlling is a pervasive function”. Explain.

Does control help in ‘judging the accuracy of standards’ and ‘improving motivation of the employees’? Explain.

Which function of management ensures that actual activities conform to planned activities?

Name the function which reviews the operations in a business unit.

Why is it said that “controlling is a continuous activity”?

Discuss the relationship between planning and controlling.
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‘Planning and controlling are mutually interrelated and interdependent activities’. How?
Or
“There is a close and reciprocal relationship between planning and controlling”. Explain this statement through an example.