Control is ensuring tasks are completed according to plans, orders, and principles to rectify mistakes and prevent recurrences. It can be defined as systematically comparing performance to standards and objectives to determine if performance aligns with plans and take remedial actions. Control guides management in achieving goals, ensures effective resource use, facilitates coordination, and leads to delegated authority while allowing top management to focus on policymaking. Control is used in education, government, business, politics, religion, media, entertainment, and other fields.

1.  Consist of seeing that everything is
being carried out in accordance with
the plan which has been adopted,
the orders which have been given
and the principles which have been
laid down. It’s object is to point out
mistakes in order that they may be
rectified and prevented from
recurring. (Henry Fayol)

2. - can be defined as a systematic effort by
business management to compare
performance to predetermined standards,
plans or objectives in order to determine
whether performance is in line with these
standards and presumably in order to take
any remedial action required to see that
human and other corporate resources are
being used in the most effective and
efficient way possible in achieving
corporate objectives. (Robert J. Mockler)

3. Characteristic or condition to be controlled
Sensor
Comparator
Activator

5. Guides the management in
achieving pre- determined goals
Ensures effective use of scarce and
valuable resources
Facilitates coordination
Leads to delegation and
Decentralization of authority
Spares top management to
concentrate on policy making

7.  Educational Institutions/Organizations
 Government/Bureaucracy in the Government
 Business
 Politics
 Religion
 Media
 Entertainment World
 Others