Effective Business Control: Features, Stages, and Areas

Control Sense

Restricted: Process to verify objective achievement and expenditure.
Large: Organization-wide verification of quantitative and qualitative objective achievement.
General: Informal and technical process of monitoring and assessing cultural and human factors, etc.

Control Features

Economics: Control cost should not exceed the value controlled.
Operation: Control should be simple to apply.
Significance: Control should be located in key activities for optimal follow-up information.
Consistency: Control features must be compatible with the controlled activity.
Opportunity: Checks must be timely.

Stages of Administrative Control

1. Setting parameters and methods for measuring performance (e.g., management approval with a score of 8).
2. Performance measurement.
3. Determining congruence between performance and set parameters.
4. Implementing corrective actions if necessary.

Areas of Control

Production

• Quality Control: Based on established standards.
• Cost Control: Verifies labor and raw material costs.
• Production Time Control: Monitors time per operator and machine.
• Inventory Control: Manages quantity and quality of raw materials, semi-finished, and finished products.
• Waste Control: Limits waste to avoid cost increases.

Commercial

• Sales Control: Checks for deviations from set targets.
• Advertising Control: Monitors advertising levels and outcomes.

Financial

• Budgetary Control: Estimates revenue and expenditure across all organizational sectors.
• Cost Control: Manages costs in all areas.

Human Resources

• Attendance and Punctuality Control: Tracks staff attendance and delays using a time clock system.
• Annual Rest Period Control (Holidays): Manages employee holiday schedules.
• Earnings Control: Oversees salaries, wages, benefits, and adjustments.
• Physical and Mental Integrity Control: Ensures safety and hygiene to preserve employee well-being.

Other

• Information Control: Ensures information is accurate and verifiable for effective managerial decision-making.
• Correspondence Control: Involves detailed checking of organizational documents to maintain institutional prestige.