The impact of management control on the human factor and consequently on enterprise performance

• Author: Nicoleta Cristina Matei - Marin Tole - Dumitru Mihai Nedelescu
• Position: Senior Lecturer, Ph.D., 'Nicolae Titulescu' University, Bucharest, Romania - Professor, Ph.D., Romanian-American University, Bucharest, Romania - Senior Lecturer, Ph.D., Romanian-American University, Bucharest, Romania
• Pages: 187-192

Nicoleta Cristina Matei, Marin Tole, Dumitru Mihai Nedelescu

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LESIJ NO. XIX, VOL. 1/2012

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THE IMPACT OF MANAGEMENT CONTROL ON THE HUMAN

FACTOR AND CONSEQUENTLY ON ENTERPRISE PERFORMANCE

Nicoleta Cristina MATEI *

Marin XOLE **

Dumitru Mihai NEDELESCU ***

Abstract

The current economic environment where enterprises run their activities is characterized by

diversified, competitional supply, superior to the demand; a supply that is heterogenous, unstable

both quantitatively and qualitatively; comprising numerous technical as well as technological

mutations. Under these circumstances, enterprise managers must ensure the achievement of

objectives and performance. In order to accomplish these, human, financial, material resources are

to be used. The limits imposed by the usage of financial and material resources can be compensated

for by means of the creativity and innovation pertaining to employees, therefore, the success of an

enterprise becomes closely related to the capitalization of staff intelligence and skills, while the

human resource becomes important for the management control by means of which an enterprise

makes sure that its activities run according to plan and that objectives are met. The paper presents

the impact of management control on the human factor and further to the enterprise performance,

strategies of employee motivation, aspects regarding the use of plans as objectives, as well as aspects

concerning the use of control techniques regarding the assessment of results.

Keywords: performance, management control, control techniques, strategies of employee

motivating.

Introduction

The main objective of an enterprise is performance, creating added value, i.e. a positive value

obtained from the running of activities after the remuneration of all participant factors, including the

enterprise capitals.

’Performance […] can have at least three meanings or connotations: success, the result of an

action or the action itself […]. Performance shows capacity for progress, due to constant efforts. The

term performance is the bearer of an ideology of progress, effort, of always striving for the better.’

(A. Bourguignon, 1997)

For an enterprise to be performant, it needs to set up and have the capacity to reach strategic

objectives by means of efficient usage of all current means, or, to put it differently, to be

simultaneously efficient and efficacious.

Reaching strategic objectives can be achieved by doing certain activities by the enterprise

employees under the managers’ guidance. ’The process meant to motivate and incite the people in

charge into doing activities conducive to the reaching of organization objectives’ is management

control. (R.N. Anthony, 1965)

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* Senior Lecturer, Ph.D., “Nicolae Titulescu” University, Bucharest, Romania, (e-mail: cmatei@univnt.ro).

** Professor, Ph.D., Romanian-American University, Bucharest, Roman ia,(e-mail: tole.marin@profesor.rau.ro)

*** Senior Lecturer, Ph.D., Romanian-American University, Bucharest, Romania, (e-mail:

nedelescumihai@yahoo.com)