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Asked 7 October 2017
What is The Difference Between Management and Control?
Difference Between Management and Control of any work.
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Control can sometimes be thought as dictatorship, no room for questioning or suggestions for improvement. Management implies cooperation, free flow of information, collaboration with the manager making the final decisions after all facts and figures are in play. It is a political play on words depending on the context of situations.
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University Ibn Zohr - Agadir
Management is the process or practice of managing. It is the act of coordinating the efforts of people to accomplish certain goals. On the other hand, control is the exercise where one influences , suggests or dictates the behavior.
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University Ibn Zohr - Agadir
Manage Something = To Do Something
Controlling Something = Monitor Something
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University of Diyala
Hello
I agree with Derra Mourad. Outstanding answer dear colleague.
Liqaa
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Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
I think management is wider in scope in the shouldering of the various facets of an organizational duties. Controlling is just an aspect of those diverse duties a manager and/or the management board is supposed to carry out. Control basically deals with the efficient way of utilizing the resources that the organization has in maximizing maximum turn outs or profits for the survival and progression of the organization.
Dickson Adom
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University "St. Kliment Ohridski" - Bitola
Dear Assad, I agree with all the given answer. You put the question as related to work. What about these terms when it is about anger, you have the phrase anger management and anger control. It is very hard to make a difference, though I suppose that the experts will find one.
KInd regards,
V. Janusheva
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University of Diyala
Thanks for sharing your question.
To manage is to control, whereas to control is to dominate by orders and decisions.
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HP Inc.
What is The Difference Between Management and Control?
Simply put control is a subset of management. According to Henri Fayol - "To manage is to forecast and to plan, to organize, to command, to co-ordinate and to control." Control is to set a boundary / boundaries, then monitor / track & act / ensure an outcome e.g business outcome like expenses is within the boundary / boundaries.
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Ministry of Science and Technology, Iraq
Dear Colleagues,
Good Day,
"Please, see the attached slide that shows "Task Control Vs. Management Control", go to the attached website link to see and read the very interesting presentation that entitled "The nature of management control systems", ...

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Al-Furat Al-Awsat Technical University
Management related to human beings, whereas Control associated with hardware and machines.
Emad
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University of Duhok
Daer Violeta Janusheva
Hi
You are right, but anger issues is one of managing and controlling criteria, Many Thanks to your opinion
Best Regards
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Applied Science Private UniversityEx
Management is the process of planning, organizing, directing, and control. Therefore control is part of managment.
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Helwan University
In my field I would prefer to use food quality management instead to say food quality control. The word management is comprehensive include making decision and all the processes of management such planning and controlling, implementation and evaluation next to organization and other sub-processes.
Best regards
Aly R Abdel-Moemin
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Forest Research Institute
Management is the process or practice of managing and coordinating the efforts of people to accomplish certain goals. On the other hand, control is the exercise where one influences , suggests or dictates the behavior
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University of Duhok
Dear Sir Hazim Hashim Tahir
Many thanks for sharing a powerpoint file it was great
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University of Duhok
Dear Aly R Abdel-Moemin
Hi
Even in your field the food quality management, and controlling you are absolutely right
Thanks
Ministry of Science and Technology, Iraq
Dear @ K. Karthik ,
Good Day,
Your first response at page one, does not belong to you! You are a doctor, you should know the scientific ethics. You had copied that from the attached website link.
If you do such a thing, please, give the reference, as so many RG colleagues do, one of them is myself.
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Institute of Agriculture and Animal Science paklihawa
In my opinion management means making unfavourable environment for harmful things and favourable for useful while control means decreasing the harmful substance or dominating them.
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Ministry of Science and Technology, Iraq
Dear Colleagues, Good Day,
"Control vs Management - What's the difference?
As nouns the difference between control and management is that control is (countable|uncountable) influence or authority over while management is (uncountable|management) administration; the process or practice of managing.
As a verb control is to exercise influence over; to suggest or dictate the behavior of. "...
Please, go to the attached website link to read the rest of the article,...
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Narayana Dental College and Hospital
Management is the process or practice of managing. It is the act of coordinating the efforts of people to accomplish certain goals. On the other hand, control is the exercise where one influences , suggests or dictates the behavior.
, Management is:
- The act or manner of managing; handling, direction, or control.
- Skill in managing; executive ability: great management and tact.
- The person or persons controlling and directing the affairs of a business, institution, etc.: The store is under new management.
- Executives collectively, considered as a class (distinguished from labor).
Management was derived from the Latin word manus, which means hand and from the Italianmaneggiare, which means to handle, especially the tools. Management is basically the art of getting things done from people, from beginning to end. From the viewpoint of Henri Fayol (1841–1925), management consists of six functions:
- Forecasting
- Planning
- Organizing
- Commanding
- Coordinating
- Controlling
.
Control means making decisions. It is all about managerial functions that ensure if all things are going in a right manner or not. It usually involves authority or a board to make decisions about changes, if any. The four basic elements in a control system are:
- The characteristic or condition to be controlled
- The censor
- The comparator
- The activator
Control is important in any business or organization because it helps to check the errors and to take the correct action against the problems. Whereas, control is also a foreseeing action used to predict the company and get the work done accordingly.
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University of the South Pacific
There is no differences between management and control for the fact that one of the management role is to control the progression of the organization in terms of the staffs performance. The management should ensure that all employees are work according to the objectives therefore the management should have the ability to control the employees.
If there is no control in the workplace, the organization cannot achieve their objectives
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University of Duhok
Dear Nirmala S.V.S.G
Hello
Excellent Answer, thanks for your contribution
Regards
Ministry of Science and Technology, Iraq
Dear Colleagues, Good Day,
"Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them."
----- Paul Hawken
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Ministry of Science and Technology, Iraq
Dear Colleagues, Good Day,
"The great irony of management is that the higher up you go, the less actual control you have. When you are but a humble coder, you make the computer do exactly what you want; when you're a manager, you only hope that people understand what you want, and then trust/pray that they do it both correctly and in a timely manner."
---- Jon Evans
Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology
Management is the process or practice of managing. It is the act of coordinating the efforts of people to accomplish certain goals. On the other hand, control is the exercise where one influences , suggests or dictates the behavior.
According to Dictionary.com, Management is:
- The act or manner of managing; handling, direction, or control.
- Skill in managing; executive ability: great management and tact.
- The person or persons controlling and directing the affairs of a business, institution, etc.: The store is under new management.
- Executives collectively, considered as a class (distinguished from labor).
Management was derived from the Latin word manus, which means hand and from the Italian maneggiare, which means to handle, especially the tools. Management is basically the art of getting things done from people, from beginning to end. From the viewpoint of Henri Fayol (1841–1925), management consists of six functions:
- Forecasting
- Planning
- Organizing
- Commanding
- Coordinating
- Controlling
Managing anything in a good manner and with great enthusiasm is not an easy job for everyone. One needs to be very active and well-spoken, that if he is managing a team, group or company, they should listen to him. Risk management is commonly used in the work place and legal proceedings. The term is used in the companies when it comes to the identification and analysis of problems which may arise out of a particular routine or project.
According to Dictionary.com, Control is:
- To exercise restraint or direction over; dominate; command.
- To hold in check; curb: to control a horse; to control one's emotions.
- To test or verify (a scientific experiment) by a parallel experiment or other standard of comparison.
- To eliminate or prevent the flourishing or spread of: to control a forest fire.
- Obsolete. To check or regulate (transactions), originally by means of a duplicate register.
Control means making decisions. It is all about managerial functions that ensure if all things are going in a right manner or not. It usually involves authority or a board to make decisions about changes, if any. The four basic elements in a control system are:
- The characteristic or condition to be controlled
- The censor
- The comparator
- The activator
Control is important in any business or organization because it helps to check the errors and to take the correct action against the problems. Whereas, control is also a foreseeing action used to predict the company and get the work done accordingly.
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Narayana Dental College and Hospital
Key Difference: Management is the process or practice of managing. It is the act of coordinating the efforts of people to accomplish certain goals.
On the other hand, control is the exercise where one influences , suggests or dictates the behavior. ... The act or manner of managing; handling, direction, or control
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The University of Arizona Global Campus
Control can sometimes be thought as dictatorship, no room for questioning or suggestions for improvement. Management implies cooperation, free flow of information, collaboration with the manager making the final decisions after all facts and figures are in play. It is a political play on words depending on the context of situations.