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Chapt thirteen
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Control | The management function that involves monitoring activities to ensure that they're being accomplished as planned and correcting any significant devotions |
| Control process | A three-step process of measuring actual performance, comparing actual performance against a standard, and taking managerial action to correct devotions or to address inadequate standards |
| Management by walking around | When a manager is out in the work area interacting with employees |
| Range of variation | The acceptable parameters of variance betweem actual performance and a standard |
| Immediate corrective action | Corrective action that adresses problems at once to get performance back on track |
| Basic corrective action | Corrective action that looks at how and why performance deviated before correcting the source of deviation |
| Feedforward control | Control that takes place before a work activity is done |
| Concurrent control | Control that takes place while a work activity is in progress |
| Feedback control | Control that takes place after a work activity is done |
| Management information system | A system used to provide management with needed information on a regular basis |
| Balanced scorecard | A performance measurement tool that looks at more than just the financial perspective |
| Employee theft | Any unauthorized taking of company property by employees for their personal use |