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Unit 16: Controlling

6. Refer to the Figure below and answer the questions that follow: Notes

C, 1
E, 4

B, 3
A, 2 D, 3 I, 3
F, 3
G, 2
H, 5

(a) Which tasks are on the critical path of the PERT chart above?
(b) What is the slack time for tasks C, D and G?
(c) The person working on task C tells the project manager he can't start work until one
day after the scheduled starting date. What impact would this have on the completion
date of the project? Why?
7. What is the relationship between planning and control?

8. What should you understand as manager by the term breach of planning control?
9. How much do you find poor planning and control in Indian SMEs to be a reason for their
weak financial performance?

10. What is the utility of the CPM?
11. What would you use as an effective and powerful method of assessing tasks which must be
Chosen where parallel activity can be carried out?

12. What do you see as the essential elements of a control system?
13. Out of planning and control, what is budgeting more important for and why?

Answers: Self Assessment

1. superiors 2. 'control'
3. Responsibility 4. start, ending

5. task, duration, dependency 6. Control
7. year 8. Variance
9. Future oriented 10. Critical

16.11 Further Readings

Books Chris Argyris, Personality and Organisation, Harper and Row, New York, 1957.
Charles Handy, Trust and the Virtual Organisation, Harvard Business Review,
May - June 1995.
George R. Terry and Stephen G. Franklin, Principles of Management, AITBS,
Delhi, 2000.

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