The control employed by companies

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Entrepreneurship is an important value in our modern world. Indeed, each company has a goal and this goal is to maximize the profit of the company and to develop the company. In order to limit the loss of the employees productivity, companies have to control the work force and develop a control system. I will answer the question: 'Why and how organizations develop a control system for employees?'.

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[...] The control is done to permit a development of the company thanks to the efficiency of their employees. I confirm this idea when Bateman and Snell say:”Thus, control is one of the fundamental forces that keep the organization together and heading in the right direction” (2008, p 574). It shows the idea that the control is necessary to develop the company and to maximize all company sectors: profit, sales, production. The goal of the control is to permit a perpetual development and a great increase of the company results. [...]

[...] We can see different kind of real example of control in the companies. The first I will give can be seen as a feedback control. For example, the salespersons are very controlled. IN some case it is a feedback control because in some companies they have to write diary or weekly report to their immediate superior in order to see if their sales performance is near the hopes the company has to him. The manager can have a regular vision about the salesman performance. [...]

[...] The feedback control can be efficient because it obliged the employee to be near to his manager. The manager has a regular and a constant vision about the employee performance. They can correct the performance quickly. This control isn't exactly the same as the concurrent control because it is not instantaneous but it is quick. Bateman and Snell show that the notion of timing is very important and that the feedback control has to be quick if it wants to be efficient. [...]

[...] We have seen that the control is an important thing in a company life. The quality of the different control actions is very important and can be determining for the future and the growth of the company. A good use of the different control tolls can be an opportunity for the company and can became a key success factor in her reference market. We haven't to forget that the control of the employees is important but it can be difficult to find an adequate control system. [...]

[...] The 2nd step permits to evaluate the performance of the employee. It gives a vision about the real work of the workforce. The 3rd step is explained by Bateman and Snell when they say: to comparing performance with the standard” (2008, p578).In this citation, they explain that the managers have to compare the productivity of their employees with the standard performance the company wants to have. It permits to see if the employees are so efficient and this step permit to see how the employees performance is situated to the hope performance. [...]