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1. What is the danger of a manager maintaining too much control over plans and projects?

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Additional Information: Control mechanisms are important to every organization. Without them, it would be difficult to determine whether or not the planning, organizing and leading functions of management are effective and productive for the company. Control in the workplace will assist in the planning and project development. In order for every business to operate effectively and efficiently, some sort of control needs to be developed and maintained. The question lies in how much control need to be maintained and what is the danger of maintaining too much.

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Control is highly associated with the actions and remedial action. In the present scenario, control is regarded as the set of activities, which help to guide the company's operation. It helps the management to assign the authority and responsibility with confidence. Apart from this, it acts as a tool of management, which regulates the activities of the organization. It ensures that performance is contributing to the attainment of the organizational objectives. The important thing which should be kept in mind is that the intensity of control should be up to the desired level, so that it remains productive for the organization (Agarwal & Mishra, 2007).

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