Controlling

Question

Mr. Jai Prakash Gupta is the general manager of “ Bhagwati Udyog Pvt .Ltd.” With a view to running his business in a careful manner, he divided all the activities into seven departments. These Departments were: purchase, Marketing, production, personnel, finance, Accounting, and Correspondence. Later on, he realized that accounting and correspondence department can be merged into finance department. Thus, all business activities were divided into five departments. Mr. Gupta is now thinking on the lines as to which are the department, out of these five that will have significant role in the success of the business, After complete analysis, he concluded that marketing, production, and finance were the department on which success of the business depended, It meant that even if some shortcoming occurred in the departments of purchase and personnel, it would not affect much the success of the business, Thereafter, Mr. Gupta determined deviation tolerance limits of these three main departments. It meant that if a deviation of these departments remains within this tolerance limit, then it will be looked after by the concerned manager. However, in case the deviation is beyond this limit that same will be brought to the notice of General Manager.

  1. Identify two function of the management referred in the above paragraph.
  2. Describe the relevant concepts of identified functions.

Answer

  1. Organizing and controlling.
  2. Concepts of identified functions:
    1. Concept-related to organizing: Under it, second step of organizing process i.e., departmentalization is involved.
    2. Concept-related to Controlling: Concepts which are related to controlling are:
      1. Critical point control: It is the concept of management which holds only important activities instead of all activities the management should focus its attention on. 
      2. Management by Exception: It refers to that principle of organizational control which holds that only significant deviations (i.e., exceptions) should be brought to the top management attention.

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