Question

Five Marks Question:
Planning and Controlling are inseparable twins of management.

Answer 1

Planning and controlling are two separate fuctions of management, yet they are closely related. The scope of activities if both are overlapping to each other. Without the basis of planning, controlling activities becomes baseless and without controlling, planning becomes a meaningless exercise. In absense of controlling, no purpose can be served by. Therefore, planning and controlling reinforce each other. According to Billy Goetz, " Relationship between the two can be summarized in the following points

• Planning preceeds controlling and controlling succeeds planning.
  
• Planning and controlling are inseperable functions of management.
  
• Activities are put on rails by planning and they are kept at right place through controlling.