Part 7: Control System Design

 

 

MGMT 2026: Management and Leadership
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Part 7: Control System Design

I am choosing to do this assignment on Stella’s Café. The main goals that they have would be to make sure the customer is happy, and all food is up to their standard. In order to do this, they must make sure that everything they need in the restaurant that day is ordered ahead of time, and that the staff they have on can make the food and serve the food in a timely manner while maintaining a friendly demeanor and excellent customer service. The goal is to keep customers happy so they will continue to come to the establishment and keep being a customer.

                                                                                         

Output Control: I believe that this would be an appropriate form of control. This control is used a lot in business’s that focus on measurable results. I think that this would work decently in a restaurant setting as there are a few ways you could measure results. One way is by measuring the amount of customers being served a day the other way could be the amount of income that is being brought in per day. I think this control would work well as the results could be measured easily and things can be adjusted in order to produce higher results.

 

Behavioural Control: I also believe that behavioural control would be a good form of control to use in a restaurant. Restaurants usually have a certain standard they want their employees to maintain, in this case giving them rules and procedures to follow will help with their behaviour in a work atmosphere. The restaurant I worked at had a dress code and specific break times these were examples of behavioural control that worked well in the workplace.

 

Clan Control: I do not believe that clan control would be a good form of control to use in a restaurant such as Stella’s. I think that because every day can be so different working in a restaurant and things can change so often having a control form that everyone is thinking the same way and isn’t a huge fan of change could be a problem. I think it is better to have different employees with different work preferences and styles.


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