People Controls
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In Management Control personnel controls build on employees’ natural tendencies to control themselves, because most people have a conscience that leads them to do what is right; find self-satisfaction when they do a good job and see their organization succeed.� Labels:
- Self-control
- Intrinsic motivation
- Ethics and morality
- Trust and atmosphere
- Loyalty
People controls ensure that employees ...
- Will control their own behaviors
- Personnel control
- Self-monitoring
- Will control each others’ behaviors
- Cultural controls
- Mutual-monitoring�
- People controls are part of virtually every management control system + becoming more important in … “flatter and leaner organizations with empowered employees.”
Methods to implement personnel controls
Generally, it is about “finding the right people, giving them a good � work environment and the necessary resources” …�
- Selection and placement
- Finding the right people to do a particular job.
- Training
- Give employees a greater sense of professionalism;
- Create interest in the job by helping employees to�understand their job better.
- Job design + provision of necessary resources
- So that motivated and qualified employees have a high�probability of success (e.g., equipment, staff support,�freedom from interruption, etc.)
People controls
- Must always be relied on to a certain extent;
- Have relatively few harmful side-effects;
- Involve relatively low out-of-pocket costs.
- However, it is rare that people controls will be sufficient.�In most cases, it is necessary to supplement them with …
Maybe, you just shouldn’t put all your trust in people?
