When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Control (management) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_(management)

    Management control can be defined as a systematic torture by business management to compare performance to predetermined standards, plans, or objectives to determine whether performance is in line with these standards and presumably to take any remedial action required to see that human and other corporate resources are being used most ...

  3. Feedforward (management) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feedforward_(management)

    It refers to the practice of giving a control impact in a downlink to a subordinate to a person or an organization from which you are expecting an output. A feed forward is not just a pre- feedback , as a feedback is always based on measuring an output and sending respective feedback.

  4. Uncertainty - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty

    In computer science, and in particular data management, uncertain data is commonplace and can be modeled and stored within an uncertain database; In optimization, uncertainty permits one to describe situations where the user does not have full control on the outcome of the optimization procedure, see scenario optimization and stochastic ...

  5. Uncertainty management theory - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_management_theory

    Uncertainty management theory (UMT), developed by Dale Brashers, addresses the concept of uncertainty management. Several theories have been developed in an attempt to define uncertainty, identify its effects and establish strategies for managing it. [1] Uncertainty management theory was the first theory to decline the idea that uncertainty is ...

  6. Strategic control - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Control

    Although control was one of the six 'functions of management' [9] listed by Henri Fayol in 1917, [10] [11] the idea of strategic control as a distinct activity does not appear in the management literature until the late 1970s (e.g. "Strategic Control: a new task for top management" by J H Horovitz, [12] which was published in 1979, is a candidate for first paper to explicitly discuss the topic ...

  7. Management control system - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Management_control_system

    Management control as an interdisciplinary subject. A management control system (MCS) is a system which gathers and uses information to evaluate the performance of different organizational resources like human, physical, financial and also the organization as a whole in light of the organizational strategies pursued.

  8. Macromanagement - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macromanagement

    Contrary to micromanagement, where managers closely observe and control the work of their employees, macromanagement is a more independent style of organizational management. Managers step back and give employees the freedom to do their job as they see fit, as long as the desired result is achieved.

  9. Internal control - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_control

    Internal control, as defined by accounting and auditing, is a process for assuring of an organization's objectives in operational effectiveness and efficiency, reliable financial reporting, and compliance with laws, regulations and policies. A broad concept, internal control involves everything that controls risks to an organization.